Kids teaching kids to build computers.

A free, student-led summer camp in Palm Beach County. Every camper builds a real PC with a 7th grader teaching them, and takes it home.

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FreeThe camp, the computer, and lunch

Summer 2027Dates coming

50Computers to build this summer

Palm Beach CountyRiviera Beach, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens

Three summersof camp.

What a camp week is

Meet the parts

Every box opened on the table. A teacher holds up each part and says what it does. Campers hold them next.

Campers at a table opening the boxes for their parts, a teacher watching — Opening the parts on day one.

Build

Processor, cooler, memory and drive onto the board. The board into the case. Power supply wired in, one cable at a time.

A camper holding the CPU cooler over the motherboard — Mounting the CPU cooler.

First boot

Graphics card in. Monitor on. The second it posts, the whole table knows.

Set it up

Windows from a USB stick the teachers made in training. Drivers, updates, the camper's own account, the software they want.

A camper plugging the mouse into the finished computer — Plugging in the keyboard and mouse.

AI, locally

A language model running on the card they installed, no internet needed, and a plain explanation of what it's doing. Then the computer goes home.

A camper grinning with a thumbs up beside the computer they built — A camper with the finished computer that goes home.

Every build runs AI locally

Each camper's computer has a dedicated graphics card. We keep it on purpose: it plays games, it's one more part to learn, and it runs a real language model locally on the last day of camp.

Campers watch the model answer on their own screen, with the network cable out, and learn what it is actually doing. Then they get set up with the free tiers of the big AI tools, so the computer they built is the computer they'll do homework on.

See the whole week

Two teachers in KTK caps checking a build at an open case with the graphics card showing — Teachers checking a build with the graphics card installed.

Computers funded for Summer 2027

KTK has funded its builds with help from a few companies and one early donor. This summer is twice the size of the last.

Summer 2027 is fully funded

All fifty computers for this summer are paid for. Donations open again ahead of the next camp.

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