Western Province
Robotics & AI classes for kids in Colombo
Colombo has more after-school options than anywhere else in Sri Lanka, and that is exactly why choosing one is hard: a class that is genuinely about building robots and understanding machine learning looks, from a brochure, much like a class that is really about typing in a computer lab. kidslab.lk is taught by Computer Engineering graduates of the University of Ruhuna, and a parent can see which it is before paying anything — the first session is free and carries no obligation to enrol.
- Ages
- 9–14
- Format
- Live online — joined from home in Colombo
- Fee
- LKR 5,000 for the full three months, payable in instalments
- First session
- Free introductory seminar, no obligation to enrol
- Taught by
- Computer Engineering graduates, University of Ruhuna
- Office
- Hittatiya Central, Matara — the academy's only address
Why online works for Colombo families
The class is live online, so it costs no Colombo traffic. A weekday-evening or weekend class in Colombo 3 or Nugegoda routinely means an hour in each direction for a ninety-minute lesson; here the hour and a half is the lesson. That matters most for the 9-to-11-year-olds, who cannot get themselves to a class and back and so turn every session into an adult's afternoon too.
Because the class is national rather than neighbourhood-based, a child in Colombo is in a group with children from Matara, Jaffna and Kurunegala rather than from the same three schools. For a subject that is mostly about explaining your reasoning to someone who approached the problem differently, the wider room is the point.
Questions from Colombo
Do I have to travel anywhere in Colombo for these classes?
No. Every session is live online and joined from home, so there is no travel inside Colombo at all. The academy's only office is in Matara, and you never need to visit it to enrol, attend or complete the programme.
How do kidslab.lk classes compare to an in-person robotics class in Colombo?
The teaching is live rather than recorded, so a child asks questions and gets answers in the moment exactly as they would in a room. What differs is that the group is drawn from the whole country instead of one part of Colombo, the fee is LKR 5,000 for the full three months, and no one spends an hour in traffic either side of the lesson.
Start with the free seminar
Day one is a free introductory session with no obligation to enrol — the cheapest way to find out whether this suits your child before any money changes hands.
Register from Colombo →Other districts
kidslab.lk has no branch in Colombo. Classes are taught live online from the academy's office at Hittatiya Central, Matara — registration is online too.