Most schools teach you to pass exams.PITA teaches you to build.
The Platform Information Technology Academy is where secondary-school students in Lagos learn web development, robotics, and AI — by shipping real projects, on real tools, the way engineers actually work.
- JSS 2 – SS 3
- No experience needed
- Weekend · holiday · online
Pita, the academy's terminal pet, greets you: hello, welcome to the academy. Pita reacts when you hover or click.
//proof
Receipts, not promises.
One school, one track record. These aren't aspirations — they're published results.
2025-09
₦10,000,000 — grand prize
Won by Abdulhameed Boluwatife Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Platform College student, at the Digital For All Challenge — a UK-sponsored national IT competition organised by Tech4DEV.
source: Guardian, Sept 2025
2025-09
15,000+ — competitors beaten
Boluwatife cleared the Lagos State and South-West zonal stages before winning the national finale in Abuja.
source: Guardian, Sept 2025
2022–24
3 years running — ICT & chess dominance
Platform Schools has held its place among Nigeria's leading private schools in ICT and chess competitions for three consecutive years.
source: Guardian, Sept 2025
//what we teach
Eight tracks. One rule: you build it.
Every track ends with a shipped project and a demo-day presentation. No toy exercises, no busywork.
//how it works
Not a class. A workshop.
We run about 90% practice to 10% theory. Four habits repeat in every session, every term.
01
Learn by building
Every concept lands in a project. No 'watch and repeat' — students write real code, break it, debug it, and ship it. We run about 90% practice to 10% theory.
02
Use real tools
VS Code, Git, GitHub, live deployment, the command line. The same workflow professional engineers use, scaled down to a classroom pace.
03
Think like an engineer
Before writing a line, students learn to break problems down: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test. Problem-solving is the actual curriculum; code is the medium.
04
Ship like a founder
Every term ends in a demo day where students present what they built to parents, mentors, and peers — explaining their decisions the way a startup would.
//when & where
Built around school, not against it.
Pick the format that fits the family calendar. Most students start the term they apply for.
Weekend Academy
The core program. One track per term, a capstone project at the end, and a demo day for parents.
Saturdays, 10:00 – 13:00 WAT
12-week term
max 12 students
Holiday Bootcamp
School holidays, not school vibes. A focused sprint where students go from zero to a shipped project in ten days.
Two weeks, Monday – Friday
2-week intensive
max 15 students
After-School Club
Run inside partner secondary schools. Brings the academy to students who can't travel after school.
Two afternoons per week
per term
max 10 students
Live Online
The same curriculum, live and interactive, for students anywhere in Nigeria. Every class is recorded.
Evenings, twice a week
12-week term
max 8 students
//your move
Your child's first real project could ship this term.
The application takes five minutes. No exams, no experience required — just a student who's curious about how things are built.
$ ./apply --next
# five minutes, three steps
01 — apply
02 — placement chat
03 — join a cohort
> see you at demo day.