DiscoG Coding Academy

The finale of DiscoG X saw 18 students train AlphAI robots with supervised learning, then go head to head in a live knockout tournament to see whose training really worked.

Students turned secret agent for Workshop 9, building a real logic gate lock with a Raspberry Pi Pico and cracking the binary code to escape the room.

Toy cars, ramps, and a table of measurements: that's all it took for our Year 5–9 students to build a real machine learning model. Here's what happened when they saw the results, and why real-world data is never quite as clean as you'd expect.

Training an AI to drive felt easy. Then came autonomous mode. Here's what happened when our Year 5–9 students let their robots take the wheel, and what it taught them about reinforcement learning, self-driving cars, and why good AI has to handle things going wrong.

Two former DiscoG students, now studying A Level Design Technology, returned to Harrow this Saturday, both having scored full marks on their own projects. Esha and Nikhil presented their work, a dental training aid and a plastic-to-filament recycling machine, before mentoring Year 5 to 9 students through their own real world problems, from earthquake rescue to river pollution. A proud, full circle moment for the DiscoG community.