Colleges · Bootcamps
5-Day AI Bootcamp
5 days · Hands-on · Certificates included
A single hands-on track for college cohorts. Five full days from first principles and AI maths through neural nets, transformers, and a shipped campus demo. Certificates are distributed at the end.
Format
Only 5-day bootcamps on campus
We run one format in colleges: five consecutive hands-on days. Mentors stay on the floor. Maths is taught for understanding - not memorized formulas - so every build has a reason behind it.
- Beginner → advanced AI in a single week
- Whiteboard maths for vectors, loss, gradients, attention, and inference
- Cohort ships a working demo on day five
- Certificates distributed to students who complete the bootcamp
Schedule
What we cover each day
Beginner to advanced AI - with the maths that makes it click. Each day is hands-on: explain, derive, then build.
Day 1 · Beginner
Foundations and the language of AI
Set up the bench and the mental model. What learning actually is - and the maths you need before models make sense.
- Vectors, matrices, and why models speak linear algebra
- Probability, loss, and “fitting” as an idea - not a buzzword
- Your first tiny model in code: data in, prediction out
Day 2 · Beginner
Neural nets and learning by gradient
Build a network by hand on the whiteboard, then train it. Gradients stop being magic.
- Layers, activations, and forward pass - written out step by step
- Loss surfaces and backpropagation maths you can follow with a pen
- Train a small network end-to-end; debug when it fails
Day 3 · Intermediate
Representations, attention, and transformers
From embeddings to attention. Work Query, Key, Value maths so transformers stop looking like a black box.
- Embeddings and similarity - geometry behind meaning
- Scaled attention: Q, K, V on paper, then in code
- A minimal transformer block you can explain to a peer
Day 4 · Intermediate
Applied AI for campus projects
Put models to work. Retrieval, grounding, and a project brief the cohort can finish tomorrow.
- RAG and vector stores for real campus documents
- Prompting vs systems: pipelines that actually answer
- Start the cohort project - scope, data, and working baseline
Day 5 · Advanced
Inference, ship, and certificates
How generation really runs, finish the demo, and close the week with certificates.
- Prefill, decode, and KV cache - maths and intuition for latency
- Polish and present a working demo (not a slide-only pitch)
- Certificates distributed to completing participants
Outcomes
What students leave with
- A clear path from beginner AI intuition through intermediate systems to advanced inference ideas
- Working maths literacy - vectors, gradients, attention, and KV cache explained at the whiteboard
- A shipped cohort demo students can show in interviews or club nights
- A completion certificate for every student who finishes the five days
Prefer a shorter first event? Start with a one-day workshop, then bring the full five-day bootcamp when the club is ready.
Request
Request the 5-day AI bootcamp
Tell us your college, cohort size, and preferred week. We email the team and confirm room needs, mentors, and certificate distribution for completing students.
Standing up a full club? Request affiliation instead - or go back to colleges.