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AI DATA POISONING: CHANGING THE WORLD (LITERALLY)
  [NOV 4 EMS | NOV 6 CMS]

POD SIZE: This POD is Limited to the First 15 Students at Each School
LAB FEES: $20/Student (Invoiced Upon Acceptance Into the POD)*

DISCUSSION (04NOV2025 EMS | 06NOV2025 CMS)

Students will learn how machine learning systems depend on clean, honest data, and how small distortions, like mislabeled images or invisible light patterns, can cause the AI to make completely wrong decisions. Through guided activities, they’ll see how data poisoning happens, how it can be detected, and why AI safety and ethics matter in real-world applications from self-driving cars to facial recognition.

This POD combines coding, experimentation, and digital ethics to build critical thinking about the reliability of intelligent systems.

APPLIED HACKING (11NOV2025 EMS | 16NOV025 CMS)

In this hands-on module, students explore how artificial intelligence can be misled by bad or manipulated data. Using Raspberry Pi computers and image-recognition models, students train a simple AI to tell the difference between everyday objects, then experiment with ways that hidden changes or misleading examples can “poison” its understanding.

POD SIZE LIMIT: None
LAB FEE: $260/Student *
* No lab fee if student provides their own non-chromebook laptop (mac or windows) or raspberry pi 5
Laptop must have a minimum of 8GB RAM , at least 128 GB Storage, and a NoIR web cam (see below). Student must have administrator rights to the laptop. To test if your laptop webcam is NoIR, take a television remote and point it at your webcam. Hold down the volume up button. If you  view your webcam and see your remote flashing, then you are good to go. If not, you will need to purchase a separate NoIr camera (about $40).

Lab Fee includes:
Portable Laptop Monitor
Logitech Wired Keyboard & Mouse
Raspberry Pi5 8GB Ram, 128GB SD)- iRaspTek
Micro HDMI to Mini HDMI
Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera Module V2 - 8MP 1080P30

Students will keep their Raspberry Pi5 system as described above after the POD concludes.
Scholarship students will NOT retain their laptop/Pi 5 computers

NEON CLEAR MYSTERY: THE VANISHING VULTURES (18NOV2025 EMS | 20NOV2025 CMS)

We were going to do this mystery last POD, but had to swap it for the Halloween Poisoner due to scheduling chages. Therefore we will do The Vanishing Vultures during this POD.

In the early 2000s, More than 40 million vultures in India simply vanished in about a year. Soon, vultures began disappearing in masses in surrounding countries. One scientist believed he figured it out, only to learn that he was completely wrong. Can you follow the clues and figure out what happened to the vanishing vultures? 

Registration Opens on October 21st, 2025
Any registration received prior to this date will automatically be deleted on the 21st

* A total of FOUR scholarships are available at EACH school. Invoice must be paid by October 30th, 2025 or student will be removed from the POD and may be replaced by a student on the wait list.

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