{"id":280944,"date":"2026-06-24T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design-today-at-elon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:50:10","slug":"ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design-today-at-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design-today-at-elon\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Play summer camp brings hands-on learning to digital game design | Today at Elon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design\/\">AI Play summer camp brings hands-on learning to digital game design | Today at Elon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design\/\">https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 13:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.elon.edu\">www.elon.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen middle school students participated in Elon University\u2019s inaugural week-long day camp that explored the fundamentals of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Share:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Share this page on Facebook<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Share this page on X (formerly Twitter)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Share this page on LinkedIn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Email this page to a friend<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Print this page<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elon University hosted its inaugural AI Play summer camp this month for rising middle school students with interest in the world of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen students participated in AI Play, held June 15-19 in Lindner Hall on Elon\u2019s campus, where they learned about artificial intelligence while improving their AI literacy.<\/p>\n<p>Middle school students participated in AI Play, held June 15-19 in Lindner Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe camp provides a way for students to get interested in this technology in an unplugged way,\u201d said Alexis Goslen, an assistant professor or computer science. \u201cWe used a lot of \u2018unplugged\u2019 activities that do not involve computers like \u2018Guess Whose Face,\u2019 a game where the students act as the facial recognition system and we introduce the concepts by connecting it to unlocking your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students participated in several hands-on learning activities that introduced concepts about pathfinding, perception and machine learning, speech recognition and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did an activity about facial recognition and that was really cool to see how AI uses facial recognition in our everyday devices and how a few viewpoints can map out entire facial features,\u201d said Trisha Anna, a seventh grader at Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"contentURL\" src=\"https:\/\/eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net\/eu3\/sites\/74\/2026\/06\/260617_AI_Play_Summer_Camp_032-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"Trisha Anna working on an activity on the computer at AI Play.\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1050475\"\/>Trisha Anna at Elon AI Play Summer camp at Lindner Hall on June 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The camp focused every day on a \u201cbig idea\u201d of an artificial intelligence concept. 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