One learner
at a time.
Timor-Leste is one of the youngest nations on earth. Similie Academy teaches coding, electronics and AI to learners from age six to adulthood — changing a nation’s economic story, one child and one adult at a time.
Resources deplete.
Skills compound.
With a median age of 20, Timor-Leste’s greatest resource is its young people. Economists are urging the country to diversify beyond oil and gas.
We think the most durable diversification is human: a generation that writes the software, builds the hardware and starts the businesses — here, at home.
A grant, a training, a report — and the work ends when the funding does.
A six-year-old who starts coding with us today is in the workforce in the late 2030s. That’s the return we’re building for — a for-profit, for-impact business that intends to still be here.
MEDIAN AGE: CHANNEL NEWS ASIA, 18 NOV 2025.
From first line of code
to first payslip.
Pick a stage to see what learners study and where it leads. Every stage builds on the last.
Five tracks.
One hub.
Prepares students for real-world software jobs, from first page to production app.
From Python Champion to AI for the workplace.
The people who keep a country connected.
Data structures, digital logic, PCB design, microcontrollers and sensors.
Coding for Kids at one end; AI for every department at the other.
Six-year-olds,
solving global goals.
Learners from age six to adult chose a challenge and built programming projects around it.
“Today we saw small projects created by the students that were truly impressive.” — ABREO ANDRE BOAVIDA, CODEFEST JUDGE · VIA TATOLI
Built by the team behind the stack.
Microcontrollers, sensors, PCBs and data: the Academy’s STEM courses cover the same ground as the Hyphen loggers and Parabl platform we deploy across Timor-Leste. Tomorrow’s field engineers could be in these classrooms.
A place to belong.
- Digital ClinicWeekly drop-in help with real problems.
- Study HallA quiet, connected place to practise.
- Tech TalksShort talks on AI and what’s next.
- Open HouseCome see the labs and meet the team.
- Similie Goes to SchoolTaking the Academy to classrooms.
- Plugin@SimilieCo-working for builders and founders.
- Monday – Friday
- 8:30 – 20:00
- Saturday – Sunday
- 9:00 – 16:00
- Public holidays
- Closed
AI for every department.
Practical courses for NGOs, government and companies — open enrolment or customised for your team.
Make impossible,
possible.
Pantai Kelapa, Dili registration@academy.tl (670) 7667 0713