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AI Summer Camp in Merced, CA

Families searching for AI Summer Camp in Merced, CA are mostly asking one question: will this week actually change anything, or is it childcare with a science theme. The Merced, CA metro area has about 297,260 residents, ranking 174th in the country.

Ages 10-14 · For families · California · West

AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Merced, CA
AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Merced, CA

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

Merced, CA — what applies locally

  • The Merced, CA metro area has about 297,260 residents, ranking 174th in the country.
  • Metro area: Merced, CA
  • State: California · Region: West

Questions we get from Merced, CA

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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