{"id":211212,"date":"2026-02-08T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:40:08","slug":"montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Uses Artificial Intelligence to Highlight Black History at Oakley Cabin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/\">Montgomery County Uses Artificial Intelligence to Highlight Black History at Oakley Cabin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/\">https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mocoshow.com\">mocoshow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tBrookeville\t\t<span class=\"block border-b-2 w-10 border-posts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPublished February 8, 2026 at 5:30AM\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Montgomery County Government \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County is promoting a Black History Month contest at the Oakley Cabin African American Museum in Brookeville that encourages visitors to take and share selfies with \u201cAI Shirley,\u201d an artificial intelligence virtual interpreter, for a chance to win gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative highlights augmented reality experiences that teach visitors about the site\u2019s history and will run throughout February, with entries judged on creativity and engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Per the news release: \u201cMontgomery County residents and visitors are invited to celebrate Black History Month at the Oakley Cabin African American Museum\u00a0in Brookeville. Organizers encourage visitors to take a selfie with\u00a0AI Shirley, the park\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) virtual interpreter, and share it on social media for a chance to win a variety of prizes throughout February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOakley Cabin tells an important story about the African American families who helped shape Montgomery County,\u201d said Marc Elrich. \u201cThrough innovative tools like AI Shirley and augmented reality, we\u2019re making history more accessible and engaging for all ages. I encourage residents and visitors to take part in the #SelfieWithShirley contest and experience this unique way of learning during Black History Month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contest encourages visitors of all ages to have fun with the augmented reality experiences at Oakley Cabin and for visitors age 13 and older to share photos on Google Maps, Instagram, X, and Facebook. Use the hashtag #SelfieWithShirley and tag County Cable Montgomery @CountyCableMoCo for a chance to win one of nine $25 gift cards for the best posts. An overall grand prize winner will be awarded a $100 gift card.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Posts will be judged by XR Montgomery staff based on creativity, shot composition, the quality of AR elements&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County Uses Artificial Intelligence to Highlight Black History at Oakley Cabin https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/montgomery-county-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-highlight-black-history-at-oakley-cabin\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mocoshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_8950.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211214,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211212\/revisions\/211214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}