The camp uniquely focuses on understanding AI through its failures and biases, teaching students where confidence in models truly comes from.
The AI Summer Camp by Ellis Abel Learns in Orange, CA, is a one-week day camp designed for middle school students (ages 10-14) to explore the fundamentals of artificial intelligence. The camp focuses on hands-on activities where students train small AI classifiers, learn from their failures, and understand the concept of confidence in AI models. Rather than just prompting chatbots, campers actively build and break small models, label their own data, and discover how biases can be accidentally introduced. The curriculum emphasizes understanding what models get wrong, fostering a deeper comprehension of AI's limitations and strengths. By the end of the week, students will have built a real AI project and gained the skills to explain their creation and the underlying AI concepts.
Students learn what a model is, label their own data sets, train models and identify failures, fix data, and showcase the failures they found.
This camp is ideal for children aged 10 and up who are curious about AI and want to understand how it works beyond just using chatbots, with a focus on problem-solving and critical thinking.
Orange, CA
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