SST 2025 · UC Santa Barbara

Learn, create, and imagine the future.

A hands-on AI bootcamp for high school students. Train your own AI models, discover how computers see the world, and explore how language models like ChatGPT understand us.

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  • 3 Saturdays, 10 AM – 2 PM
  • UCSB, Elings Hall
Bootcamp students holding their certificates of completion on the final day
Final day with our amazing students!

Overview

Explore the world of AI through hands-on activities and fun projects.

In this class, you will experience the applications of AI in our lives, learn the fundamental building blocks of AI, train your own AI models, and gain the power to explore the AI world.

With hands-on activities, you will learn how models learn from data and how computer programs see and understand the world. In coding projects, you will learn how to adapt AI models for your own needs and explore how language models like ChatGPT process human language.

Come learn, create, and imagine the future with us!

Calling all aspiring young women in computer science.

We especially encourage girls who are curious about computing to apply. Bring your questions and your ideas. No one starts out as an expert.

What you'll learn

From everyday AI to building your own models.

AI in everyday life

Discover where AI already shows up in the world around you, and what makes it work.

The building blocks

Learn the fundamental ideas behind AI and how models actually learn from data.

Train your own models

Get your hands on real code and train AI models yourself, step by step.

How computers see

Find out how computer programs look at images and make sense of the world.

How language models work

Peek inside models like ChatGPT and explore how they process human language.

Make AI your own

Adapt existing AI models to your own ideas in creative coding projects.

SST 2025 schedule

Three Saturdays on the UCSB campus.

  1. Day 1 Sep 20 Saturday
  2. Day 2 Sep 27 Saturday
  3. Day 3 Oct 4 Saturday
10:00 AM – 2:00 PMeach class day
Elings Hall, Room 3001UC Santa Barbara · Directions

Meet the instructors

Taught by UCSB AI researchers.

Hosted by the Jeong Lab at UC Santa Barbara, led by Prof. Haewon Jeong.

Questions about the bootcamp?

Reach out to the instructors by email. We'd love to hear from you!

Email Rasta Email Tian