🎮 5-Day Gamified Generative AI Bootcamp

From Prompt to Product - Bethlahem | October 12, 2025

College Students + Beginners | Ollama · Gemini · OpenAI · OpenRouter · Qdrant

🏁 Day 1: Enter the World of GenAI
Meet the Models 🤖
Core Topics
Theme: "Meet the Models"
Objective: Understand LLMs and prompt engineering basics

Core Topics:
• What is Generative AI (Text, Image, Audio, Video)
• How LLMs (like Gemini, GPT-4, Llama 3) understand prompts
• Role of temperature, context, and system messages
• Differences: Cloud vs Local (Ollama)
• Ethical prompting & hallucinations

Badge Earned: 🏅 Promptsmith Beginner
⏱️ Duration: 2 hrs
Prompt Wars ⚔️ Mission
Compete to craft the most creative or precise prompt for given challenges.
Teams battle head-to-head to see who can create the most effective prompts.

Focus: Creative and precise prompt crafting
Learn the difference between creative prompts and precision-focused prompts through competitive gameplay.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Model Match-Up 🥊 Mission
Compare the same prompt across Gemini, OpenAI, and Ollama models.
Test how different AI models respond to identical prompts and analyze the variations.

Focus: Understanding model differences
Learn how different AI models have unique strengths, weaknesses, and response patterns.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Creative Side Quest 🎨 Side Quest
Create a meme or short poem using AI tools and creative prompting.
Explore the creative potential of AI through fun, low-pressure challenges.

Focus: Creative AI applications
Discover how AI can be a creative partner in generating entertaining and artistic content.
⏱️ Duration: 30 min
🤖 Day 2: Build Your First AI Assistant
Your Own Chatbot 🤖 Core Topics
Theme: "Your Own Chatbot"
Objective: Learn how to create and personalize AI assistants

Core Topics:
• What are AI agents and chatbots
• Introduction to LangChain / Flowise (no-code visual builder)
• Using Gemini, OpenAI, and Ollama models in a chatbot
• Context memory and persona design
• Local vs Cloud agent setup

Badge Earned: 🏅 Bot Builder Beginner
⏱️ Duration: 2 hrs
Campus Helper Bot � Mission
Build a chatbot that answers student FAQs about campus life, courses, and resources.
Create a practical AI assistant that could actually help students navigate college life.

Focus: Practical chatbot development
Learn to design conversational AI that provides real value in educational settings.
⏱️ Duration: 1.5 hrs
Bot Model Comparison 📊 Mission
Test the same bot with Gemini, OpenAI, and Ollama to compare performance.
Analyze how different underlying models affect chatbot personality and capabilities.

Focus: Model performance analysis
Understand the practical differences between AI models in real applications.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Personality Side Quest 🎭 Side Quest
Give your chatbot a unique "team personality" - make it funny, serious, or quirky.
Explore how personality design affects user engagement and bot effectiveness.

Focus: Persona development
Learn to create memorable and engaging AI personalities that users want to interact with.
⏱️ Duration: 30 min
📚 Day 3: Teach Your AI Using Qdrant (RAG Day)
Your AI Learns from Data 📚 Core Topics
Theme: "Your AI Learns from Data"
Objective: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Qdrant

Core Topics:
• What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Embeddings: converting text into vector space
• How Qdrant stores and retrieves vectors
• Integrating Qdrant with Ollama / OpenAI / Gemini / OpenRouter
• Designing context-aware Q&A systems

Badge Earned: 🏅 Knowledge Trainer
⏱️ Duration: 2 hrs
Knowledge Bot 🧠 Mission
Create a bot that answers questions from your college syllabus or handbook.
Build a practical RAG system that can provide accurate, contextual answers from specific documents.

Focus: Document-based Q&A systems
Learn to create AI systems that can intelligently search and answer from specific knowledge bases.
⏱️ Duration: 1.5 hrs
Model Duel ⚔️ Mission
Compare retrieval quality across Llama 3 (Ollama), GPT-4, and Gemini.
Test which AI model performs best at understanding and retrieving relevant information from your knowledge base.

Focus: RAG performance comparison
Understand how different models handle document retrieval and context understanding.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Quiz Battle Side Quest 🧩 Side Quest
Teams challenge each other using their knowledge bots in quiz competitions.
Test your RAG systems against each other to see which team built the most effective knowledge retrieval system.

Focus: Competitive knowledge testing
Learn through friendly competition while validating the effectiveness of your RAG implementations.
⏱️ Duration: 30 min
🎨 Day 4: Multimodal Magic: Text + Image + Voice
AI That Sees and Speaks 👁️🗣️ Core Topics
Theme: "AI That Sees and Speaks"
Objective: Explore multimodal generation and creative GenAI tools

Core Topics:
• Text-to-Image using Gemini, DALL·E (OpenAI), or OpenRouter models
• How multimodal models combine visual and textual reasoning
• Voice synthesis (OpenAI TTS / Gemini Audio) basics
• Creative prompt design for visual storytelling
• Responsible AI creativity (bias & content safety)

Badge Earned: 🏅 Visual Creator
⏱️ Duration: 2 hrs
AI for Good Poster 🌟 Mission
Generate a campaign image + slogan for a social cause using AI tools.
Combine text and image generation to create compelling visual campaigns for positive social impact.

Focus: Creative AI for social good
Learn to use AI creativity tools for meaningful purposes while exploring ethical considerations.
⏱️ Duration: 1.5 hrs
Image Model Face-Off 🖼️ Mission
Compare Gemini vs OpenRouter image quality using the same prompts.
Test different image generation models to understand their unique strengths and artistic styles.

Focus: Image generation comparison
Learn how different AI models interpret visual prompts and produce varying artistic results.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Meme War Side Quest � Side Quest
"Meme War" — funniest AI-generated meme wins!
Unleash your creativity and humor using AI image generation tools to create the most entertaining memes.

Focus: Creative humor with AI
Explore the lighter side of AI creativity while learning about visual humor and cultural references.
⏱️ Duration: 30 min
🏆 Day 5: The Grand Finale: The GenAI Startup Challenge
From Prompts to Products 🚀 Core Topics
Theme: "From Prompts to Products"
Objective: Combine all skills into a working GenAI mini-project

Core Topics:
• Building complete GenAI workflows
• Multi-model strategy (Ollama + Cloud APIs + Qdrant)
• Team pitching & storytelling
• Evaluation metrics for GenAI apps
• Future roadmap: multi-agent systems & ethical AI

Final Awards Available! 🏅
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Final Project Challenge 🏆 Mission
Build & present a working GenAI product idea:
• TutorBot for personalized learning
• Resume Assistant for job applications
• Campus Knowledge Agent
• Visual Campaign Creator

Focus: End-to-end GenAI application
Combine everything learned into a practical, working AI solution.
⏱️ Duration: 2.5 hrs
Pitch Round 🎤 Mission
2-minute demo + storytelling presentation of your GenAI product.
Present your creation to judges and peers, showcasing both technical achievement and practical value.

Focus: Communication and presentation
Learn to effectively communicate technical concepts and demonstrate AI solutions.
⏱️ Duration: 1 hr
Awards Ceremony 🏅 Final Awards
Final Leaderboard: Coins + Badges + Final Scores

Awards:
🥇 Top GenAI Innovator
🥈 Best Bot Builder
🥉 Visual Wizard
💬 Audience Choice

Celebrate achievements and recognize outstanding contributions to the bootcamp!
⏱️ Duration: 30 min
Gamification System 🪙 System
⚙️ Gamification Elements:

🪙 AI Coins: Earned for missions, creativity & teamwork
🏅 Badges: Promptsmith · Bot Builder · Knowledge Trainer · Visual Creator
🧾 Leaderboard: Updated daily (Top 5 visible)
🎓 Mentor Cards: Limited "Ask for Help" passes
⚔️ Side Quests: Surprise mini-challenges (memes, quizzes, debugging)

Mode: Learn → Play → Build → Compete
Tech & Tools Summary 🛠️ Tools
🧩 Technology Stack:

Text Generation: Ollama (Llama 3), OpenAI (GPT-4o), Gemini 1.5, OpenRouter (Claude / Mixtral)
Vector Database: Qdrant (self-hosted or cloud)
Workflow Builder: Flowise / LangChain
Multimodal: Gemini · OpenAI DALL·E · OpenRouter (Stable Diffusion / Flux)
Collaboration: Google Sheets (Leaderboard), WhatsApp / Discord (Side Quests)

Focus: Hands-on, gamified, no-code-first approach