Teenagers learning to think and build in the AI era.
A live program for teenagers where they build real AI projects, take the stage at Flagship Expo Day, and walk out with skills that stay irreplaceable as AI replaces everything else.
Designed and taught by IIT & IIM grads. Built for India.
Hardware included: Arduino, sensors, robotics, shipped to your door.
Flagship Expo Day
Industry
On the panel
Academia
IIT & IIM
Every student
On stage
Why now
The world your child is preparing for is being rewritten by AI.
The students who'll lead the next decade are the ones building with AI early, while it's still new ground for everyone. Wingschool is the program that gives your child that head start.
The shift
AI is the new necessity.
It will touch every job your child applies for: medicine, design, law, engineering, the arts. Fluency is no longer optional.
The skill
Building beats memorizing.
In an AI world, the answer is free. The skill that compounds is knowing what to build, and being able to build it.
The window
Early starts win.
In 1995, the kids who began with the internet led the next two decades. The kids who begin with AI now will lead the next. The window is open, and it starts with one hour.
The next Bill Gates is a 13-year-old vibe-coding today.
Alexandr Wang
Chief AI Officer · Meta
WingsQuest 2026.
You've been using AI for years. Now find out if you're built to build with it. One hour of the Challenge decides who earns a seat in the Builder Program, and a place on a public stage with a real AI project of your own.
Applications close 15 August · Challenge Day 28 August.
Builder Program seats are awarded on merit alone.
The journey
The Challenge
A one-hour online challenge of reasoning, curiosity, and builder instinct, calibrated by grade.
The AI Builder Program
Clear the cutoff and build a real AI project over four weeks, mentored live by IIT/IIM graduates.
Flagship Expo Day
Present your project on stage to a panel of industry experts and IIT/IIM alumni.
WingsQuest 2026 · How it works
One challenge. Three phases. One stage.
From a one-hour online challenge to your project on a public stage, this is the whole arc.
The Challenge.
A one-hour online aptitude challenge for Class 6–10. It can't be crammed and needs no coding. It measures how you think.
Online · Challenge Day 28 Aug
The AI Builder Program.
Admission is earned on your Challenge score alone. Clear the cutoff and it's four weeks of live, hands-on classes. You learn how modern AI actually works, then build a real AI project of your own.
Taught by IIT/IIM grads
Flagship Expo Day.
You present your project to a panel of industry experts and IIT/IIM alumni. Finish, and you collect your project-completion certificate on stage.
Industry + IIT/IIM panel
What your score earns · Ranked on merit
Everyone
An official scorecard with your All-India percentile.
Top 20%
25% scholarship on the Builder Program.
Top 10%
50% scholarship on the Builder Program.
Qualifiers
A Builder seat, a real AI project, and the Expo Day stage.
Inside the Challenge · Phase 1
One hour. Here's exactly what's in it.
No prep, no coding, no textbooks. A one-hour online challenge you take from home, testing the three signals that predict a builder, calibrated for your grade, Class 6–10.
What it measures
Logic & patterns
Reasoning
Structured thinking under time: sequences, deduction, and pattern-spotting. The stuff that predicts how fast you learn new tools.
Problem framing
Curiosity
How you attack a problem you've never seen before, the single best early signal of builder potential.
The unknown
Builder instinct
Given something unfamiliar, do you freeze or start taking it apart? We're looking for the second kind.
Sample question · Run a real neuron
Don't take our word for it. Try one.
This is an actual building block of ChatGPT: a single neuron. Researchers stack billions of them. You're about to run one.
inputs [2, −1] · weights [3, 4]
A neuron multiplies each input by its weight and adds the results. If the total is negative, it outputs 0. That's the ReLU rule. What does this neuron output?
This is that single neuron, live.
One challenge. Three phases. Built to find exceptional young thinkers.
Applications close 15 August
Questions students and parents ask
Frequently Asked Questions.
No. The WingsQuest Challenge tests reasoning and curiosity, not programming; there's no code in it. And the AI Builder Program starts from zero. Technical confidence grows by making things, not by intimidation.
There is no fee to sit the Challenge. Admission to the AI Builder Program is decided purely on your score. The Builder Program itself is a paid program, with 25–50% merit scholarships for the top 10–20% of scorers; the fee is shared directly with parents before anything is due.
The Challenge is one hour, online, from home. Challenge Day is 28 August. The Builder Program is four weeks of live online sessions designed to fit around school life.
You still keep your participation certificate and your private score band, and you'll know exactly where you stand. The skills WingsQuest tests are buildable, and the Challenge will run again.
Mentors are graduates of IIT Madras, IIT Ropar, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Ranchi, most with industry experience at AI-first startups.
Every participant gets a WingsQuest 2026 certificate. Qualifiers who finish the Builder Program add a real AI project they built themselves and a project-completion certificate, presented on stage at Flagship Expo Day.
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