Mechna Academy is an iPad and Mac academy for kids aged 8 to 10, set in a city of machines. Your child guesses how each machine decides, then opens it up to check. They learn how AI works, and they never talk to a live AI.
Five districts on one train loop. Each district is one side of AI.
Max · senior apprentice · a character in Mechna
Hey, I’m Max! Senior apprentice, which mostly means I ride the Inner Loop a lot. Come on, all the way around.
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/// SECTOR 02 _ MECHNA CITY _ FIVE DISTRICTS
Academy Plaza and the Academy Spire stand at the center. Around them, the Inner Loop train runs one way round through five districts, and each district is one side of AI.
The Inner Loop runs through five districts, and each district explores one side of AI.
Two sessions each, in the district where the idea lives.
/// SECTOR 01 _ THE MECHNA LOOP _ 7 STEPS
Every lab follows the same seven steps, so your child learns the routine once and uses it everywhere. The one hard rule: the hatch stays locked until the guess is in.
Every Mechna lab follows seven steps: Spot, Try, Guess, Peek, Tweak, Prove and Keep.
Someone in the city needs help.
A resident explains the problem, and who built the machine and why. Every machine starts with a person’s goal.
Play with it. What does it do?
Your child runs the machine on everyday cases and watches what comes out.
What’s going on inside?
Your child commits to a guess, and it’s kept exactly as given. “Can’t tell yet” is a real answer.
Open the Peek Hatch.
The hatch unlocks only after the guess. Inside is how the machine decides, shown in pictures at ages 8 to 10.
Change one thing.
Your child changes a single cause, guesses what will happen, then runs it and compares before and after.
Try one it’s never seen.
A fresh case the machine has never met. Guess first, then check.
Save your Discovery Card.
Your child puts what they found into words with sentence tiles, linked to the evidence they used.
/// SECTOR 02 _ WHAT THIS IS
Mechna Academy is set in one city, full of trains, districts and machines.
Mechna Academy teaches children how AI machines decide through a city they can explore.
Your child rides between stations, explores, and helps the people who live there.
Every part of it teaches how AI machines decide. Your child learns how AI works by testing machines, and never talks to a live AI.
/// SECTOR 03 _ BUILT FOR 8 TO 10
Designed for your child’s age from the start, not shrunk from an adult product.
Mechna Academy is designed for children aged 8 to 10, with spoken lines, picture choices, no typing and no timers.
Every line is spoken, captions are always on, and any line can be replayed.
One action at a time, so your child is never juggling controls.
Your child answers with picture choices and sentence tiles.
Missions are untimed, and there are no lives to lose.
Each mission has two sessions, and each session ends with something saved and a reason to come back.
/// SECTOR 04 _ FOUNDER’S LOG
I founded Banana Flip, a learning platform for kids, and I built it for my daughter. Mechna started the same way, with one child in mind. This time it’s my son.
My son already uses AI in some ways. Given the world he’s growing up in, I want him to understand how it works, inside and out, not just how to use it. So I went looking for something built for kids that would show him how a machine actually decides, and that he’d want to keep playing. I couldn’t find it. Most of what I found either put a child in front of a live AI chatbot, or taught “AI” as buzzwords and quizzes.
So I started building my own.
Sunny Kapoor, Founder
/// SECTOR 05 _ CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORM
Places are limited.
Join the waitlistTeachers, homeschool educators and school leaders: what Mechna teaches, and how it fits.
For educatorsDistrict leaders, and curriculum, IT and privacy staff: the design facts, stated plainly.
For districts/// SECTOR 06 _ CITY RULES
Your child learns how machines decide without ever chatting with one. These are the rules Mechna is built to.
Mechna never shows ads, and there are no coins, loot boxes or purchases inside the game. Nothing is for sale in the founding-family program.
Your child never chats with anyone in Mechna, and never with an AI. There’s no chatbot and no live AI model in the app. The machines your child studies run on rules and examples we’ve written and checked in advance.
Mechna never asks to use the device’s microphone or camera. Your child answers by tapping or clicking pictures and word tiles. There’s no typing.
In the founding-family program, there are no accounts, no ads and no analytics of our own, and the game doesn’t connect to the internet. Progress is saved only on the device. We never ask for your child’s name or birth date. The founding-family program runs on Apple’s TestFlight, which shares crash reports, basic use like how often the app is opened, and device details with us, along with any feedback you choose to send. Apple says this can include the name and email of the parent’s Apple Account that installed it.
Your child never sees a price or an offer, and is never asked to get you to buy something.
The machines in Mechna have no faces and no feelings, and nothing in Mechna pretends to be your child’s friend. The guide, Max, is a character: a senior apprentice at the academy.
We never use children’s data to train AI.
These are the rules Mechna follows. If one changes, this page will say so, and our Privacy Policy's change log will record it.
/// SECTOR 07 _ ANSWERS
Mechna Academy is an iPad and Mac academy for children aged 8 to 10, set in a city full of machines. In each mission, a child guesses how a machine decides, then opens its Peek Hatch to check, changes one thing and tests it on a case it has never seen. Children learn how AI works this way, and they never chat with an AI.
No. Your child never chats with anyone in Mechna, and never with an AI: there’s no chatbot and no live AI model in the app. Mechna Academy teaches children how AI machines work by testing them. The machines run on rules and examples written and checked in advance, and the guide, Max, is a character, not an AI companion.
Mechna is for children aged 8 to 10 on iPad or Mac. It is tested on iPad Air (M3). Places are limited.
Inside the app, there’s nothing to buy and no prices. Mechna has no ads, and your child never sees a price or an offer.
