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AI Summer Camp in Waterloo, IA

The Waterloo–Cedar Falls, IA metro area has about 169,189 residents, ranking 263rd in the country. Somewhere in it are children who would love ai summer camp and have never been offered one within driving distance.

Ages 10-14 · For families · Iowa · Midwest

AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Waterloo, IA
AI Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Waterloo, IA

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

Waterloo, IA — what applies locally

  • The Waterloo–Cedar Falls, IA metro area has about 169,189 residents, ranking 263rd in the country.
  • Metro area: Waterloo–Cedar Falls, IA
  • State: Iowa · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from Waterloo, IA

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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