About Our Camp
Dr.Meng Programming & AI Bootcamp offers intensive courses designed for students in grades 5-9 in 2022-2023. The courses include 1) Programming Fundamentals, 2) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 3) Algorithms & Data Structures for USACO Bronze, 4) Techbots for Mobile App Development and 5) RaspberryPi Fundamental. Each module covers a different central topic in computer science; when mastered, these topics can be applied in many different specialization directions, which provides maximum flexibility to students’ future endeavors in computer science.
Mission & Vision
Our missions:
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Intensive programming courses that develop all-around computational thinking and vision for secondary school students.
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Covers programming fundamentals, algorithms and data structures for USACO, artificial intelligence & machine learning, and mobile app development.
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Utilizes innovative and effective teaching methods, designed and taught by experienced instructors.
Our Visions:
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Skills learned from APAA can be applied to competitive programming (USACO), science fairs (ISEF, STS, AJAS, GSF), hackathons (MIT Appathon)，Congressional App Challenge, HackMIT), and a variety of other prestigious competitions.
Extended Learning in Programming, AI, machine learning and IoT
Bootcamp courses will be taught in MIT App Inventor, a fully-featured programming environment widely recognized as the best learning platform for new coders. With a block coding interface, it enables students to focus on computational and algorithmic thinking, without the burden of memorizing convoluted programming syntax. Once students master MIT App Inventor, they will be able to pick up Python, C++, Java, and other languages quickly and easily.
