CA Community College AI Summer Camp 2026
Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub)
July 20-–24, 2026SUN
Sunday, July 19th
Arrival Day
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Check-in
Student lodging check-in
PCV Aliso Building, Aliso Lobby
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Welcome Bowling & Pizza
Catering Pizza and Drinks
Mustang Lanes
MON
Monday, July 20th
Foundations & Team Building
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast Meal
Dining Hall
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Keynote Keynote
192-0106
9:20 AM – 9:45 AM
Welcome to Camp
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
What is Generative AI
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
RAG Overview
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch Meal
Dining Hall
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Intro to Vibe Coding
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
What is an Agent
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Break Break
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Team Intros / Project Intro
Account Login / Environment Setup
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
What is Prompt Injection?
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Scavenger Hunt
PCV – Subway
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Welcome Reception & Team Building
Pac Pavilion
TUE
Tuesday, July 21th
Core Technologies
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast Meal
Dining Hall
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Review Core Concepts / Q&A / Environment Help Desk
192-0106
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Break Break
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Innovation Station Sessions
Two rotations (10:15–11:00 & 11:15–12:00)
- Overview of Cloud Services for Hackathons (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway -> 192- 106
- UI/UX Design -> (192- 206)
- Prompting Techniques -> (192- 224)
- Data Transformation and Parsing -> (192-242)
- Deep Dive RAG -> (192-220)
- AI 101 for non technical -> (Bonderson high bays)
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch Meal
Dining Hall
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Project Time
Lightning talks as needed
192-0106
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Getting Into Tech Post-Graduation
Panel of young working professionals
192-0106
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Project Work Time
192-0106
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
AWS Student Builder Groups
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Dinner Meal
WED
Wednesday, July 22th
Application Development
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast Meal
Dining Hall
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Review and Reflections
Engineering IV (192-0106)
9:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Innovation Station Sessions (Repeated)
Repeated as needed / Q&A
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch Meal
Dining Hall
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Ethics & AI (Lecture)
192-0106
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Review, Discussion, Q&A
192-0106
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Break Break
2:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Project Work Time
Mentor check-ins
192-0106
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Dinner Meal
THU
Thursday, July 23th
Project Development
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast Meal
Dining Hall
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Team Development Time
With roving mentors
192-0106
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Working Lunch: Giving Great Presentations Meal
197-107
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Continued Project Development
192-0106
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Progress Check-ins with Mentors
192-0106
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Presentation Preparation Time
192-0106
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Dinner Meal
FRI
Friday, July 24th
Final Presentations
ALL PRESENTATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 7:00 AM
CAMPERS MUST BE PRESENT AT 9:00 AM SHARP OR BEFORE
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
Breakfast Meal
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Speaker Keynote
Business Silo (003, 0213)
9:15 AM – 1:30 PM
Team Presentations
20 teams × 10 minutes each (3h 20min + breaks)
Business Silo (003, 0213)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Lunch Break Meal
Business Silo Lawn
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM
🏆 Awards Ceremony
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Closing Remarks & Next Steps
Food & Catering
Sunday
- Pizza and Drinks
Monday
- Breakfast: Dining Hall
- Lunch: Dining Hall
- Dinner: Taste of the Mediterranean
Tuesday & Wednesday
- All meals at Dining Hall
Thursday
- Breakfast: Dining Hall
- Lunch: Mr. Pickles Sandwiches
- Dinner: Dining Hall
Friday
- Breakfast: Hot breakfast (bacon, eggs, French toast, pastries)
- Lunch: BBQ