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AI Summer Camp in Thayer County, NE

Thayer County is one of 93 counties in Nebraska. 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 · Nebraska · Midwest

AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Thayer County, NE
AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Thayer County, NE

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

Thayer County, NE — what applies locally

  • Thayer County is one of 93 counties in Nebraska.
  • Every public school district inside Thayer County is eligible for the district licensing terms.
  • State: Nebraska · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from Thayer County, NE

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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