Live, hands-on sessions
Laptops open from the first hour. You build during the session, not after it.
DeepStation Academy · Official OpenAI Academy Launch Partner
Imagine it. Type it. Ship it.
Hands-on AI coding courses and live build sessions, taught by people who ship real software. You're at the keyboard from the first hour — join in person or online.
Enrolling nowFree — approved guest list
Featured live build
OpenAI Build Week Comes to Miami: Live Build Session with OpenAI Codex
No panels. No hype. One app, built together live with OpenAI Codex.
- Date
- Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- Time
- 6:00 – 9:30 PM ET
- Location
- The LAB Miami · Wynwood, Miami
The evening
Schedule, block by block
- 1
6:00 – 6:45 PM
Doors Open & Networking
- 2
6:45 – 7:00 PM
OpenAI Build Week Kickoff
- 3
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Live Build Session with OpenAI Codex
- 4
8:00 – 8:15 PM
Codex Demo #1 — Building with Codex in the Wild
- 5
8:15 – 8:30 PM
Codex Demo #2 — From Idea to Shipped Feature
- 6
8:30 – 9:30 PM
Closing, Builder Connections & Next Steps
The courses
Courses for every stage.
Start from zero, speed up a workflow you already have, or drop into a free live build session. Every course is hands-on, and every course ends with something you shipped.
Enrolling nowAll levels
OpenAI Build Week
No panels. No hype. One app, built together live with OpenAI Codex.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
The free community session. Work through OpenAI's Build Week modules together, live — instructors on the floor, everyone building, demos at the end.
In sessionIntermediate
Boost Productivity
Less typing. More building. Dramatically faster results.
July 11 – August 1, 2026 · 4 Saturdays
The intermediate track. Build your own Skills, connect MCP servers, and run agent teams so Codex and Claude Code handle dramatically more of every project.
CompletedBeginner-friendly
Zero to Launch
From idea to shipped product in four Saturdays.
May 9 – 30, 2026 · 4 Saturdays
The start-from-zero track. Learn professional AI-assisted development — Git, auth, databases, payments — and deploy a real product live.
The format
How sessions work
Help in the room
Instructors float the room and sit down with you the moment you're stuck.
Weekly office hours
Multi-week courses add a drop-in hour each week — ask questions, get unblocked.
Demo what you built
Every course ends the same way: you ship something real and show it to the room.
Support
You're never building alone.
Getting stuck is part of building. The Academy is set up so you never stay stuck — in the room, in your dashboard, or between sessions.
Instructors who ship
Live help in every session, code review on your actual project, and someone who sits down with you until you're unstuck.
Jeska, the Academy AI tutor
Built into your course dashboard. Jeska answers from your course's actual content — and can research current setup questions when tools change under you.
Help desk & office hours
Stuck between sessions? Send a screenshot to the help desk, get answers in a thread, or bring it to office hours. Humans respond.
Outcomes
What you walk away with
- A real product, deployed live
- A faster AI workflow you can reuse on any project
- Proficiency with modern AI coding agents — Codex and Claude Code
- Git and GitHub fluency
- A project you can demo — and keep building
- A community that keeps you building after the last session
Instructors
Taught by builders, not lecturers.
The people teaching each course write software with these exact tools every day — and they stay in the room, reviewing code and unblocking you, until you ship.
Grant Kurz
Technical setup instructor
Michael Friedberg
Course lead and product coach
Katherine Burge
Student support and project guidance
Gabe Klein
Instructor and student support
The community
Built by DeepStation
We're on a mission to create the world's most connected AI learning community. As an official OpenAI Academy Launch Partner with 6,000+ global members, we're building more than AI skills through expert-led workshops and regional summits — we're creating economic development ecosystems where innovators are made.
- 6,000+ global members
- Official OpenAI Academy Launch Partner
- 100+ workshops
- Speakers incl. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Come build with us.
Pick a course, claim your seat, and build alongside people who ship. Sign in anytime to pick up where you left off.