AI • Medicine • Health • Innovation

A 10-Day Summer Program for Middle School Students

Summer 2027 | Palo Alto, California

Explore the science of human health. Understand major diseases. Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. Build your own AI-powered health project.

WHAT IS CAMP AEGIS?

Preparing Young Minds for the Future of Health

The future of medicine will be shaped by people who understand both human biology and artificial intelligence.

Camp Aegis is a 10-day interdisciplinary summer program designed to introduce middle-school students to the rapidly converging worlds of AI, human biology, medicine, and preventive health.

Students explore how the human body works, investigate some of the major diseases affecting human health, learn how laboratory biomarkers provide information about the body, and discover how artificial intelligence can help organize, analyze, and communicate complex health information.

But Camp Aegis is not just about learning. Students also become creators.

Throughout the 10-day experience, students use AI to research, learn, communicate, create, and solve problems. Each student develops an individual AI-assisted health project, culminating in an app or digital-project demonstration at Aegis Demo Day.

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Program: Camp Aegis
Theme: AI • Medicine • Health • Innovation
Students: Middle School
Length: 10 Days
Format: Residential Program
Location: Palo Alto, California
Academic Model: Project-Based Interdisciplinary Learning
Capstone: Individual AI Health Project
Final Events: Aegis Demo Day + Medicine Bowl Junior
Financial Aid: Need-Based Assistance Planned

THE 10-DAY CAMP AEGIS JOURNEY

DAY 1 — WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF HEALTH

Big Question: How can biology and AI work together to improve human health?

Students are introduced to Camp Aegis, artificial intelligence, human health, cells, homeostasis, and the AI Health Challenge.

AI Health Lab: Explore AI tools and begin identifying a health problem.

DAY 2 — CELLS, GENES & THE CODE OF LIFE

Big Question: How can changes at the cellular and genetic level affect human health?

Students investigate cells, DNA, genes, inheritance, gene expression at an age-appropriate level, and the relationship between genetics and disease.

Cancer provides an important case study connecting genes, cells, and disease.

AI Health Lab: Research the biology underlying the student's proposed project.

DAY 3 — THE HEART & CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

Big Question: How does the body deliver what every cell needs?

Students investigate the cardiovascular system, heart function, circulation, blood pressure, lipids, and cardiovascular disease.

Relevant laboratory biomarkers are introduced.

AI Health Lab: Explore health data and ways to visualize biological information.

DAY 4 — METABOLISM, DIABETES & NUTRITION

Big Question: How does the body obtain, use, and regulate energy?

Students connect the digestive and endocrine systems through nutrition, digestion, glucose, insulin, metabolism, and diabetes.

AI Health Lab: Define the user's problem and design the first project prototype.

DAY 5 — THE BRAIN, BEHAVIOR & ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Big Question: How does the brain allow us to think, remember, learn, and behave?

Students explore neurons, nervous-system organization, brain function, memory, sleep, psychological well-being, and Alzheimer's disease.

AI Health Lab: Build and test the first working version of the project.

DAY 6 — IMMUNITY, INFLAMMATION & CANCER

Big Question: How does the body protect itself—and what happens when biological regulation breaks down?

Students investigate immunity, inflammation, chronic inflammation, cancer, and interactions among immune function and other body systems.

AI Health Lab: Improve the prototype based on testing and feedback.

DAY 7 — THE STORY INSIDE YOUR LAB RESULTS

Big Question: How can measurements help us understand what is happening inside the body?

Students investigate the 22 laboratory tests and biomarkers featured in AI Life Guardian, connecting individual measurements to organs, body systems, metabolism, and health.

The excretory/urinary system receives particular attention as students examine kidney-related physiology and biomarkers.

AI Health Lab: Explore how AI can organize and communicate multiple pieces of health information.

DAY 8 — BUILDING WITH AI

Big Question: How do you turn scientific knowledge into a useful technological solution?

Students devote substantial time to app and project development. They learn about:

User Experience • Interface Design • AI Prompting • Iterative Development • Testing • Accuracy • Privacy • Responsible AI

AI Health Lab: Complete the functional project prototype.

DAY 9 — COMMUNICATING SCIENCE

Big Question: How do great scientists and innovators make complicated ideas understandable?

Students learn scientific storytelling, presentation design, public speaking, and responsible AI-assisted media creation. They may use AI to develop:

Images • Graphics • Videos • Music • Stories • Educational Content

Students also prepare a short health or medicine keynote-style presentation.

AI Health Lab: Final testing and Demo Day preparation.

DAY 10 — CELEBRATE KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION

The final day brings together the two major culminating experiences.

AEGIS CAPSTONE PROJECT DEMO DAY

Students present and demonstrate their individual AI health capstone projects.

MEDICINE BOWL JUNIOR

Students form teams and put their newly acquired medical-biology knowledge to the test.

Cells • Genetics • Human Body Systems • Major Diseases