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AI Summer Camp in Oakley, CA

Oakley has a population of about 38,194. 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 · California · West

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

Oakley, CA — what applies locally

  • Oakley has a population of about 38,194.
  • State: California · Region: West

Questions we get from Oakley, 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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