Skill‑Forward
— 2 Week AI Bootcamp · May 2026 Cohort

Slides & Resources

All lecture decks and supporting resources from the 2 Week AI Bootcamp (20 hours) — from kickoff through your 60-second pitch.

— Lecture decks

Slides

01

Bootcamp Kickoff

Welcome to the Project-Based AI Bootcamp. Walks through the philosophy, the five tracks you can pick from, the four live sessions, and what you need to complete to earn your certificate, stipend, and AI credits.

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02

Skill Forward — 6 Solo Projects

Six solo project options you can ship under 20 hours: Portfolio Generator, Portfolio Roaster, Skill-Gap Analyzer, Interview Story Bank, Cold Outreach Crafter, and Skill Forward-Match.

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03

Solo Project Brief Template

Template to draft your project brief — scope, success criteria, and shipping plan.

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04

Claude Skills

Working with Claude Skills — how to author, package, and use Skills to extend Claude for your project.

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05

Prompt Engineering

Practical prompting patterns — structure, examples, and reliable techniques for getting consistent results.

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06

LLM Evaluation

How to evaluate LLM outputs — building evals, measuring quality, and knowing when your model is good enough to ship.

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07

Voice of Customer Insights — Guest Speaker: Vera Sell (PSU)

Guest lecture from Vera Sell of PSU School of Business on the why and how of Voice of Customer insights.

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08

Business Structures

A quick tour of common business structures and what each means for solo builders and small teams.

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09

Agent Introduction

Intro to AI agents — what they are, when to use them, and how they compose with tools and memory.

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10

Vector Embeddings

Foundations of vector embeddings and how they power semantic search, retrieval, and RAG-style systems.

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11

60-Second Pitch

How to crisply pitch your project in 60 seconds — structure, signals, and what makes it land.

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— Further reading

Resources

01

Turn Repeated Instructions into Reusable Skills in Lovable

Lovable’s introduction to Skills — how reusable markdown instructions let you stop repeating yourself every time you build with AI.

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02

Prompt Engineering Whitepaper (Kaggle)

Kaggle’s prompt engineering whitepaper — a deep dive into structured prompting techniques for getting consistent results from LLMs.

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