{"id":236697,"date":"2026-06-24T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.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":"2026-06-24T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:45:22","slug":"ai-play-summer-camp-brings-hands-on-learning-to-digital-game-design-today-at-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>Elon University hosted its first AI Play summer camp for rising middle school students interested in artificial intelligence from June 15-19.<\/li>\n<li>The camp, held in Lindner Hall, included 13 participants who engaged in &#8216;unplugged&#8217; activities and hands-on learning about various AI concepts without the use of computers.<\/li>\n<li>Students participated in activities related to pathfinding, facial recognition, machine learning, and more, while also discussing ethics in AI.<\/li>\n<li>A standout moment included a workshop showcasing the Elon robot dog, demonstrating students&#8217; growing interest and understanding of AI.<\/li>\n<li>The primary goal of the camp was to increase students&#8217; AI literacy and to spark interest in technology, computer science, and engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Play summer camp brings hands-on learning to digital game design | Today at Elon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net\/eu3\/sites\/74\/2026\/06\/Crop_260615_AI_Play_Summer_Camp_178.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-236697","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\/236697"}],"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=236697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236699,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236697\/revisions\/236699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}