UPWARDS TechTrek High School Summer Camp
High School Summer Camp 2026
UPWARDS TechTrek High School Summer Camp
A two-week, project-based program where students learn how AI, circuits, FPGA, robotic cars, and drones work together in modern intelligent systems.
Program structure
One integrated camp organized by topic, lecture, and project work
TechTrek is organized around four technical topics. Each topic combines short lecture modules with hands-on projects, so students can connect the idea, the tool, and the working demo instead of treating them as separate tracks.
Topic 1
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Students start with Python and ML fundamentals, then move into computer vision and real-time image/video applications.
AI and ML activities include collaborative demos, image classification, object tracking, gesture recognition, and tutorial-style classroom learning.
Lecture
- AI career paths, job market, useful courses/majors, and Q&A.
- Python and common ML libraries used in lab work.
- General machine learning: data, labels, training, testing, classification, and neural networks.
- Computer vision applications and how cameras become input for intelligent systems.
Projects
Emoji Face Filter
Identify emotion such as happy or sad from emoji-style faces; introduces classification.
Color-Based Object Tracking
Track a colored ball or object in real time using HSV color space, masking, contours, and coordinates.
Gesture Identification
Use Colab camera access to capture gestures and classify motion from real-time video data.
Smart Camp Safety / Activity Monitor
Detect people, count activity, or classify scenes from video.
Topic 2
Electronic Circuits
Students learn how real-world signals become electrical information, then build sensor, power, and embedded hardware projects.
