{"id":188020,"date":"2026-02-16T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program-today-at-elon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:10:09","slug":"registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program-today-at-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program-today-at-elon\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration now open for Elon University\u2019s \u201cAI Play\u201d middle school summer program | Today at Elon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program\/\">Registration now open for Elon University\u2019s \u201cAI Play\u201d middle school summer program | Today at Elon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program\/\">https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/registration-now-open-for-elon-universitys-ai-play-middle-school-summer-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 17:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.elon.edu\">www.elon.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon University is hosting a weeklong summer day camp named &#8220;AI Play&#8221; for rising sixth through eighth graders.<\/li>\n<li>The camp is scheduled for June 15-19, 2026, and will take place in Lindner Hall on the university&#8217;s campus.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of the camp is to introduce students to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and digital game design through hands-on learning and interactive activities.<\/li>\n<li>The camp includes daily sessions from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and each day will focus on different AI principles.<\/li>\n<li>The fee for participation is $500 and includes lunch and snacks, although seats are limited.<\/li>\n<li>The program is organized by faculty in the Department of Computer Science, with support from university students, and is in collaboration with various offices within the university.<\/li>\n<li>Activities include exploring how AI is used in digital game design and learning about the ethics of AI, among other concepts.<\/li>\n<li>For additional details and to register, interested parties should contact Alexis Goslen, assistant professor of computer science, at agoslen2@elon.edu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration now open for Elon University\u2019s \u201cAI Play\u201d middle school summer program | Today at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net\/eu3\/sites\/74\/2026\/02\/AI-summer-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-188020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188022,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188020\/revisions\/188022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}