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Plio Academy

AGES 13–17 · INNOVATORS TRACK

Engineer the future.

Cybersecurity, cloud, AI engineering, ethics. College-level depth. Zero prerequisites.

Free · Self-paced · Ages 13–17
Lio in Innovators mode — ready to engineer

CURRICULUM

What you'll learn

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Threat modeling, cryptography basics, network security, and capture-the-flag challenges. Students learn to think like both attackers and defenders — building habits that protect them and others for life.

Cloud & DevOps

Cloud & DevOps

Deploy real applications to the cloud. Containers, CI/CD pipelines, environment variables, and the infrastructure that runs every modern product. Hands-on from the first lesson.

AI Engineering

AI Engineering

Fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and evaluation. Students build real AI systems — not just call an API — and understand why models behave the way they do at a systems level.

Ethics & Policy

Ethics & Policy

Who benefits from AI? Who gets left out? Bias, fairness, surveillance, and the policy decisions shaping tech. Rigorous debate, real case studies, and original position papers.

Lio waving to innovators

YOUR GUIDE

How Lio helps Innovators

  • 1

    Pushes depth, not just breadth. Lio detects when a student is ready for harder material and challenges them before they get bored — more like a mentor than a tutor.

  • 2

    Connects disciplines across modules. A cloud architecture decision connects back to the security module. An AI ethics case study maps to a real system students just built. Lio makes the web explicit.

  • 3

    Treats students like adults. No hand-holding on easy problems. Lio gives Innovators space to struggle productively and asks probing questions rather than offering solutions too early.

Ready to engineer?

College-level tech education, free to every teenager. No prerequisites. No excuses. Start now.