An Intensive 4-Week Bootcamp for High School Seniors & Incoming College Freshmen
Students: Learn how to use Google’s free, powerful AI research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, to personalize and supercharge your learning!
Parents: Give your student the tactical skillset to handle heavy college workloads, prevent first-year overwhelm, and hit the ground running!
📅 Dates: Each Thursday, July 9 – July 30 (4 Sessions)
🕒 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Hera Hub Mission Valley (8885 Rio San Diego Dr. Unit 237, San Diego, CA 92108)
💻 Format: A small-group, interactive mix of instruction, demo, individual work, and 1-on-1 support from Dr. Kristen Beck
💰 Investment: $345 Early Bird Special ($395 after June 27)
👥 Availability: Enrollment strictly capped at 12 for quality’s sake
Master the College Workload Before Day One With AI-Powered Studying
We show students how to transform their challenging course-related “source” materials (e.g. PDFs, ebooks, articles, YouTube videos, and website content) into a personalized learning engine centered around four pillars:
- Customized Retrieval Practice: Instantly generate interactive flashcards and practice quizzes from their actual syllabi and sources to build stress-tested recall.
- Cognitive Load Management: Translate complex academic writing and dense terminology into clear, manageable concepts.
- Dual-Coding (Auditory & Textual Integration): Turn dense textbook chapters into customized engaging, 2-host audio discussions to enable studying on the go.
- Metacognitive Monitoring: Track learning gaps in real-time so they target their limited study hours exactly where they need support.
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
WEEK 1 (July 9): Constructing a Source Vault & Personalized Learning Profile
- Core Activity: Using the course syllabus for one of their pre-selected upcoming courses (e.g., Calculus, AP Biology, or World History), students will curate a highly organized collection of course resources like textbook chapters, primary documents, lecture notes and videos, and academic articles.
- Personalization Step: Students will write and upload a custom “Learning Profile” detailing their study preferences, focus windows, or neurocognitive traits (such as ADHD-friendly study techniques, visual-first explanations, or step-by-step mathematical decomposition). This trains the AI to act as a personalized, highly responsive mentor that knows exactly how to distill dense concepts in a way that the student can grasp.
- Deliverable: A secure, structured, and personalized study environment tailored specifically to the student’s learning style and goals.
WEEK 2 (July 16): Strategic Inquiry, Decoding, & The Executive Studio
- Core Activity: Students transition from passive readers to active investigators. We teach prompt engineering techniques tailored for academic study — helping students interrogate dense material, translate complex notation, and cross-reference themes.
- Studio Resources Mastered: Students learn to output their first set of structured documents, making rigid materials highly visual:
- To-Do Lists: Mapping out weekly schedules and assignment deadlines from complex syllabi.
- Briefing Docs: Creating instant, highly readable overviews of multi-chapter reading assignments.
- Timelines: Visualizing chronological historical events, chemical phases, or steps in algorithmic processes.
- Deliverable: A master notes database generated dynamically from their source materials.
WEEK 3 (July 23): Multimodal Anchoring & Gap Assessment
- Core Activity: Students use auditory learning to lock in their reading. They will generate custom, 2-host audio overviews. To foster critical thinking, students are trained in source verification — learning to cross-reference the generated audio against the primary source texts to catch gaps or misinterpretations.
- Studio Resources Mastered:
- Audio Overviews: Conversational, podcast-style summaries that make dense textbook chapters or research articles engaging and portable.
- FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions): Targeted Q&A banks designed to address the hardest concepts in the curriculum.
- Deliverable: A small curated library of highly accurate, portable study tracks.
WEEK 4 (July 30): The Metacognitive Testing Center
- Core Activity: Students convert their workspace into an active testing simulator. They will engage in live, chat-based oral exams with their personalized tutor, receiving immediate, diagnostic feedback on their responses.
- Studio Resources Mastered:
- Study Guides: Self-generating study guides packed with sample prompts, key vocabulary, and conceptual checkpoints.
- Deliverable: An interactive, self-updating exam simulator tailored directly to their course syllabus and learning goals.
KEY DELIVERABLES
By the end of this 4-week program, each workshop participant will have a fully-functioning, perfectly personalized study ecosystem:
- The Secure Study Bubble: A dedicated workspace containing their actual (or sample) fall academic curriculum, along with a starter collection of personalized interactive learning materials.
- The Learning Style Anchor: Custom system instructions that format explanations, length, and pacing to match their personal neurocognitive profile.
- The Prompt Playbook: A master directory of academic prompts for summarizing, testing recall, and cross-referencing sources.
REGISTER NOW!
Don’t wait — enrollment strictly capped at 12 participants!
Early Bird Price: $345 (register by June 27)
Standard Price: $395 (if registering after June 27)