BizNiche

BizNiche Vibe Coding for Teens

Build the App You Were Called to Build. (Yes, even in middle school.)

A 6-week self-paced course teaching teens to discover, design, and ship a real working app using AI -- guided by the proven 6 Biblical Keys framework. No coding required.

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Florida ESA-eligible · Grades 6-8 · Self-paced + optional cohort

Who This Is For

The Curious Teen (Ages 11-14)

For students who watch AI demos and think 'I want to build something.' This course turns that curiosity into a real shipped product.

The Homeschool Family

For parents looking for STEM enrichment with real outcomes. Self-paced, parent-visible, mapped to CSTA K-12 standards.

The Values-Aligned Family

For families who want a curriculum that respects and integrates a Biblical worldview while teaching cutting-edge tech skills.

A Real, Working App. By Week 6.

Not a worksheet. Not a quiz. By the end of this course, your teen will have a deployed, functional web application -- something a friend can actually open and use. Built with Claude (the brain), Replit (the builder), and v0 (the beautifier) -- the same AI tools professional developers are using right now.

Whatever they discover in Week 1 becomes the thing they build in Weeks 2-6.

Examples teens have built or could build

  • A study tracker for their friend group
  • A youth group event sign-up app
  • A practice log for their sports team
  • A budget app for teen babysitting income
  • A daily devotional reminder

The 6-Week Structure

What Happens Each Week

  1. Week 1 — Discovery

    4 hours

    Walk through all 6 Biblical Keys to discover the app your teen is uniquely positioned to build. Three short reflection questions per key, an interactive discovery exercise, and a one-page app concept brief by end of week.

    Deliverable: Your teen's first app concept, on paper.

  2. Week 2 — Define the App

    4 hours

    Turn the concept into a real specification. Who's it for? What does it do? What screens does it need? Your teen learns to think like a product designer.

    Deliverable: A complete one-page app spec.

  3. Week 3 — Foundation Build

    4 hours

    First working version. Using Replit's AI agent and v0, your teen writes their first AI prompts and watches their app come to life. No syntax required -- they learn how to TELL the AI what they want.

    Deliverable: A clickable prototype.

  4. Week 4 — Iterate

    4 hours

    Test with real users (siblings, friends, parents). What works? What breaks? What did your teen forget? They learn the most important developer skill: listening to users.

    Deliverable: Three rounds of feedback + improvements.

  5. Week 5 — Launch Prep

    4 hours

    Polish, branding, basic pricing concepts (even if free). Your teen learns what 'launch-ready' actually means.

    Deliverable: A launch checklist with everything green.

  6. Week 6 — Launch

    4 hours

    Publish the app. Share it with the first 5 users. Celebrate. Your teen ships a real product into the world.

    Deliverable: A live URL they can share at the dinner table.

What Your Teen Will Actually Learn

Skills covered

  • Computational thinking & problem decomposition
  • AI prompt engineering basics
  • Product design fundamentals
  • User empathy and feedback iteration
  • Self-directed learning & shipping discipline
  • Basic web app architecture (frontend, deployment, data)
  • Communication: explaining what they built and why

Standards alignment

  • CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards (Grade Band 2 + Band 3)
  • Florida B.E.S.T. Standards (writing components)
  • ISTE Student Standards (Empowered Learner, Innovative Designer)
Download full standards alignment doc (PDF)

Time Commitment

24 hours total

4 hours per week × 6 weeks

Self-paced

Your teen can move faster or slower

Lifetime access

To current cohort year content

Optional cohort calls

Full Program and Capstone tiers

Enrollment

Choose Your Tier

Starter

Self-Paced

$249/student/year
  • Full self-paced course access (all 6 weeks)
  • Parent progress dashboard
  • 6 Keys discovery flow
  • 3 publicly viewable sample lessons
  • Lifetime access to current cohort year
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Full Program

Self-Paced + Cohort

$449/student/year
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Weekly optional cohort calls (live, group format)
  • Cohort accountability check-ins
  • Group project gallery
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Capstone

Full + 1:1 Review

$599/student/year
  • Everything in Full Program, plus:
  • Three 1:1 project review milestones with the instructor
  • Personalized launch coaching
  • Capstone certificate
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Try Before You Buy — 3 Free Sample Lessons

Florida state policy requires curriculum content to be publicly viewable for review. Here are three lessons your teen (and you) can experience right now.

5 min video

"What's Vibe Coding?"

The intro lesson from Week 3. Learn how AI tools changed what's possible -- and why your teen can now build what used to take a team of engineers.

8 min video

"Your First AI Prompt That Builds a Feature"

A live walkthrough showing your teen typing a prompt into Replit and watching a working feature appear.

PDF checklist

"Launching Your App to Your First 5 Users"

The Week 6 launch checklist your teen will use to ship their first real app.

Paying with Your Florida ESA?

MyScholarShop families

BizNiche Vibe Coding for Teens is available through Florida's MyScholarShop for families with PEP, FES-EO, or FES-UA scholarships.

  1. 1Log in to MyScholarShop
  2. 2Search for "BizNiche Vibe Coding"
  3. 3Select the tier and enroll your student
  4. 4Receive access credentials within 24 hours

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Direct purchase / reimbursement

Don't have your funds on a MyScholarShop card yet? You can buy directly and file for ESA reimbursement.

  1. 1Click Buy Now on any tier above
  2. 2Complete checkout via Stripe
  3. 3Save your receipt
  4. 4Submit for reimbursement via your ESA portal

Both methods work with Florida ESAs. Out-of-state homeschoolers welcome — your state's ESA may also reimburse.

Frequently Asked Questions

About the Founder

About Your Teen's Instructor

Mary Yon (writing as Mary N. Squire pre-marriage) is the author of the 2002 book Mind Your Own BizNiche!, which coined and popularized the term “bizniche”— defined as “a personalized business niche; a unique expression of your talent, your spirit, and your ideas, channeled into opportunities that create success.” Both Google's AI Overview and Urban Dictionary credit her for the term.

She has spent over two decades refining the 6-Key framework with adult entrepreneurs and has now adapted it for K-12 students, pairing it with the AI tools that are reshaping how software gets built.

Mary also founded PrelAI — an AI-powered worship-team app currently in beta. PrelAI is her own walked-the-framework BizNiche: she discovered it, designed it, and is shipping it. Your teen will follow the same process.