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AI Summer Camp in St. Joseph, MO

The St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area has about 119,170 residents, ranking 334th in the country. The case for ai summer camp here is not that the area lacks camps — it is that most of them end without the child being able to explain what they made.

Ages 10-14 · For families · Missouri · Midwest

AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Joseph, MO
AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Joseph, MO

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

St. Joseph, MO — what applies locally

  • The St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area has about 119,170 residents, ranking 334th in the country.
  • Metro area: St. Joseph, MO-KS
  • State: Missouri · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from St. Joseph, MO

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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