The AI Bootcamp

What you'll learn and build.

Across five live modules over two weeks, you will learn how to ask stronger questions, improve your school and creative work, build a functional first version, and put it in front of other people for feedback. Click any module for the details.

What You'll Learn

Most people use AI like a more advanced search box. This module fixes the mental model first: what AI actually is, why it sometimes makes things up, and how to get genuinely useful answers. Students learn which assistant to use, the anatomy of a strong prompt, and how to tell when AI is confidently wrong.

What You'll Practice & Build
  • Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity
  • Research with checkable sources
  • Learn a reusable prompting framework
  • Identify hallucinations and unsupported claims
  • Build the habit of verifying important outputs
  • Preview what you will be able to build by the end of the program
Tools Introduced
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Perplexity
You leave with: A stronger understanding of how AI works and a prompting framework you can use across tools.
What You'll Learn

AI can support far more than chatbot conversations. Students explore useful tools for studying, researching, presenting, writing, and creating. The focus remains on keeping their own thinking, language, and point of view at the center.

What You'll Practice & Build
  • Turn notes into summaries, quizzes, and audio overviews
  • Build a presentation from a topic
  • Generate posters and visual concepts
  • Explore AI-supported music and video tools
  • Apply selected tools to current coursework or creative work
  • Compare when AI improves the work and when it weakens it
Tools Introduced
NotebookLM
Gamma
AI image generation
Suno
CapCut
AI video generation
You leave with: A map of useful AI tools for school and creativity, plus stronger work that still sounds like you.
What You'll Learn

Students move from AI that advises to AI that helps them build. They begin with a quick browser-based exercise, then create a fuller, shareable first version in plain language without needing to code.

What You'll Practice & Build
  • Understand the difference between a chatbot and a builder
  • Make a working mini-project in the browser
  • Build a shareable project using a no-code platform
  • Improve the project by describing changes
  • Explore the range from simple builders to more advanced tools
  • Connect the project to an academic, extracurricular, professional, or entrepreneurial goal
Tools Introduced
Claude Artifacts
No-code app builder
Lovable
You leave with: A functional first version of your own project that you can keep developing.
What You'll Learn

Once students can build, they learn how tools can work together. This module introduces agents, automations, and professional AI-building environments so students understand where the field is heading.

What You'll Practice & Build
  • See how an AI agent can create files and complete tasks
  • Watch a build in Claude Code
  • Learn plan mode, iteration, memory, and other foundational concepts
  • Understand how skills and automations extend an agent
  • Push a project further than one tool could manage alone
  • Learn the vocabulary used by professional AI builders
Tools Introduced
Claude Code
AI agents
Automations
You leave with: A clear picture of the AI-building frontier and the vocabulary to discuss it.
What You'll Learn

The skill separating careless AI use from strong AI use is judgment. Students learn how to verify work, spot misleading or manipulated content, maintain academic and professional integrity, and present what they built to an audience.

What You'll Practice & Build
  • Verify AI output efficiently
  • Identify deepfakes and AI-generated content
  • Improve a project to a showcase standard
  • Present what you built
  • Gather feedback
  • Decide what to build next
  • Create a plan to continue after the program
Tools Introduced
All tools, recapped
Your AI Playbook
You leave with: The judgment to use AI responsibly, a finished project you can share, and a plan for what comes next.

Build something you can leverage.

Use what you create to strengthen an application, pursue an internship, demonstrate initiative to an employer, or continue developing the project into a venture of your own.

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