What happens at camp
Camp runs a full week so there is time to build, set up, and run AI on the finished machine. Lunch is provided.
The week, day by day
Teachers show each step on the screen at the front, then campers do it at their table. Nobody moves on until the whole table is there.
Last summer's build
Everyone gets the same parts, so every table moves together and every kid goes home with the same machine. This is last summer's build; this summer's parts are being chosen.
Why every build includes a graphics card
A cheaper build would skip it. We don't, for three reasons. It's one more part to learn, with its own slot, its own power cable and its own driver. It makes the computer good for games, which is a fair reason for a kid to want it. And it runs a language model locally, which is the last day of camp.
Campers watch the model answer on their own screen with the network unplugged, learn roughly how it works, and then get set up with the free tiers of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok for schoolwork.
Where camp happens
A school sends campers and lends the room. The Weiss School in Palm Beach Gardens hosted the second summer. Summer 2027 runs at H. L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, in the media center.
