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TinyGPT Builder Camp

Build Your Own Mini Language Model

Best for
Students interested in AI, ChatGPT-style models, and language models

Duration
5 days

Class length
2 hours/day

Price
$129 Early Bird / $159 Regular

Date
20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (9 am pst-11:30 am pst)

What students will learn

  • What a language model is
  • How language models predict the next token
  • What a text dataset looks like
  • Characters, words, tokens, and vocabulary
  • How text is converted into numbers
  • Tokenisation and encoding
  • Input and target creation for training
  • Basic idea of embeddings
  • Basic idea of model architecture
  • What training means
  • What loss means in language modelling
  • How a model improves during training
  • How to generate text using prompts
  • Temperature and randomness in generated text
  • Why small models make mistakes

Hands-on activities

  • Explore a text dataset
  • Preprocess text for training
  • Convert text into tokens
  • Assemble a small educational language model using guided code
  • Train the model in Google Colab
  • Track loss during training
  • Save and run the trained model
  • Generate text using custom prompts
  • Experiment with temperature and output length
  • Final mini showcase

Outcome

Students will build and run a small educational language model step by step. They will understand the pipeline behind language models: dataset to tokenisation to model to training to inference.

Requirements

  • Basic Python knowledge required
  • Machine Learning Explorer Camp recommended
  • Laptop or desktop
  • Google account
  • Google Colab access
  • Stable internet connection
  • No powerful laptop or GPU required

Note

This is a guided AI builder camp. Students do not need to understand every mathematical detail. They will work with prepared code, simple explanations, and hands-on experiments.

Contest

USACO Bronze Sprint Camp

Competitive Programming and Problem Solving

Best for
Students preparing for USACO Bronze or coding contests

Duration
5 days

Class length
3 hours/day

Price
$99 Early Bird / $129 Regular

Date
27, 28, 29, 30, 31 July (9 am pst-11:30 am pst)

What students will learn

  • How to read and understand contest problems
  • Input/output format used in coding contests
  • Simulation-based problem solving
  • Arrays and lists
  • Strings and character operations
  • Frequency counting
  • Brute force techniques
  • Sorting-based problem solving
  • Greedy thinking
  • Prefix sums
  • Basic time complexity: O(n), O(n log n), O(n^2)
  • How to debug contest code

Hands-on activities

  • Around 5-10 Codeforces/LeetCode-style problems
  • Around 5 USACO Bronze-level problems
  • Guided problem solving
  • Independent practice problems
  • Discussion of different approaches

Outcome

Students will learn the core techniques needed for USACO Bronze and become more confident in solving competitive programming problems.

Requirements

  • Basic Python knowledge
  • Comfort with loops, lists, strings, and conditions
  • Laptop or desktop
  • Internet connection

ML

Machine Learning Explorer Camp

Visualising Machine Learning with Python

Best for
Students with basic Python knowledge

Duration
4 days

Class length
2 hours/day

Price
$49 Early Bird / $69 Regular

Date
15, 16, 17, 18 July (9:00 am pst -11:30 am pst)

What students will learn

  • What machine learning is and where it is used
  • How machines learn from data
  • Datasets, rows, columns, features, and labels
  • Basics of NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib
  • Visualising data using simple charts
  • Regression: predicting numbers
  • Classification: predicting categories
  • Train/test split
  • Model training and prediction
  • What loss and loss function mean
  • Accuracy, error, and model performance
  • Basic idea of overfitting
  • How text can be converted into numbers for AI models

Hands-on activities

  • Explore real datasets
  • Visualise data using graphs
  • Build a simple house price prediction model
  • Build a simple classification model
  • Compare actual vs predicted results
  • Understand how training improves a model

Outcome

Students will understand the basic workflow of machine learning: data to training to prediction to evaluation. This camp also prepares students for the TinyGPT Builder Camp.

Requirements

  • Basic Python knowledge
  • Laptop or desktop
  • Internet connection
  • Google Colab access recommended

Free

Python Spark Camp

Introduction to Programming with Python

Best for
Beginners

Duration
2 days

Class length
2 hours/day

Price
Free

Date
13 and 14th July (9:00 am pst -11:30 am pst)

What students will learn

  • What programming is and how Python works
  • Variables, numbers, strings, and basic data types
  • Taking input from the user
  • if, elif, else conditions
  • Loops using for and while
  • Lists and basic list operations
  • String operations and simple logic building
  • Writing small beginner-friendly Python programs

Hands-on activities

  • Number checker
  • Marks/grade calculator
  • Simple quiz game
  • Guess the number game
  • Basic list and string problems

Outcome

By the end of this camp, students will be able to write simple Python programs and understand the basic building blocks of coding.

Requirements

  • Laptop or desktop
  • Internet connection
  • No prior coding experience required