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AI Summer Camp in Bloomington, IN

The Bloomington, IN metro area has about 165,231 residents, ranking 266th in the country. AI Summer Camp works the same way here as anywhere: give a child a problem too hard to guess at, then refuse to hand them the answer.

Ages 10-14 · For families · Indiana · Midwest

AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Bloomington, IN
AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Bloomington, IN

What the week actually is

An AI camp for children should spend more time on what the model gets wrong than on what it gets right. Students train small classifiers, watch them fail on data they did not anticipate, and learn where confidence comes from — which is the skill that outlasts any tool.

Day by day

  1. What a model is, in objects not code
  2. Label your own data set
  3. Train it and find where it fails
  4. Fix the data, not the model
  5. Showcase: show the failure you found

Bloomington, IN — what applies locally

  • The Bloomington, IN metro area has about 165,231 residents, ranking 266th in the country.
  • Metro area: Bloomington, IN
  • State: Indiana · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from Bloomington, IN

Is it just prompting chatbots?
No. They build and break small models, label their own data, and see the bias they introduced by accident.
Do they need maths beyond their grade?
No, though the ratio and percentage work gets a real workout.
Is it age-appropriate?
Ten and up. The material about how models fail is exactly what this age should hear first.

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