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AI summer camp aims to encourage high school girls to get involved in STEM

By: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer   The SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences held Invent the Future, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) summer camp, to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.      During the two weeks of the camp, 24 eleventh-grade girls from all over the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, and even two from as far as Toronto, gathered to learn about AI, experiment with STEM, and work with mentors to create their own AI projects.      In the first week, the girls learned about computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. They also…

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