AI-CCORE is the Artificial Intelligence Center for Collaborative Outreach, Research & Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The center delivers hands-on AI bootcamps, masterclasses, an intern academy, and a NextGen AI Studio for high-school and early-college students, alongside applied research and partnerships.

AI-CCORE is directed by Dr. Mahadevan Subramaniam (Subu), Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UNO, with Dr. Victor Winter serving as Deputy Director. Faculty across UNO's College of Information Science & Technology contribute to programs and research.

What programs does AI-CCORE offer?

AI-CCORE offers four core programs: AI Bootcamps (multi-week hands-on training), AI Masterclasses (one-day expert-led sessions), AI Intern Academy (industry-aligned immersion with certification), and the NextGen AI Studio for high-school and early-college students.

How do I enroll in an AI-CCORE program?

Visit the program page (Bootcamps, Masterclasses, Intern Academy, or NextGen AI Studio) and submit the enrollment form, or POST to /api/submit-enrollment with the program slug, name, and email. You can also book a demo at /book-demo or email unoaiccore@unomaha.edu.

Can AI agents interact with this site?

Yes. AI-CCORE publishes machine-readable manifests for AI agents, including /llms.txt, /openapi.json, /agents.json, /.well-known/agent.json (A2A), /.well-known/mcp.json (MCP), /.well-known/webmcp.json (WebMCP), and /.well-known/ai-plugin.json (OpenAI plugin).

How do I report an accessibility issue?

AI-CCORE conforms to WCAG 2.1 AA. To request an alternative format or report a barrier, see https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/accessibility or email unoaiccore@unomaha.edu.

5 Weeks and Real Apps : What High Schoolers Actually Built at AI Camp

The short version

High School students spent five weeks at AI-CCORE's Next-Gen AI camp learning AI and building working prototypes.
Teams built real projects, from a used-car marketplace to a student-planner app to an exam-integrity tool.
The camp wrapped with a demo day on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus on July 10, 2026, judged by local entrepreneurs and investors.
The takeaway: give students real problems and real tools, and they build real things.

What is AI-CCORE?

AI-CCORE is the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Artificial Intelligence Center for Collaborative Outreach, Research and Education. It works to spread AI literacy, connect students with career opportunities, and help local businesses, nonprofits, and startups put AI to work. The Next-Gen AI camp is its summer program for high school students.

AICCORE is FOSTERING THE FUTURE OF AI INNOVATION and Empowering Businesses, Communities, and Professionals

AI-CCORE’s mission and meaning. Source: AI-CCORE's site

A summer of building

This summer, AI-CCORE's Next-Gen AI camp gave high school students something rare: five weeks to tackle real problems with real tools.

Over the course of the program, high school students learned the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, formed teams, and built working prototypes from the ground up, capping it off with a demo day in front of judges, mentors, and families on the UNO campus on July 10, 2026.

A team lays out the problem they set out to solve for students juggling school and activities.

Photo: Students explain Aced, an AI-powered tool for notes, tutoring, and planning.

What the students built

The results speak for themselves. Rather than stopping at concepts, students shipped working prototypes aimed at problems they actually understand. A few of the projects:

Aced — an AI-powered academic manager that digitizes handwritten notes, adds an AI tutor that guides learning without handing over the answers, and pairs a daily planner with Google Calendar sync.
Club Connected — a school-district platform for discovering, joining, and managing student clubs, with role-based sign-in, club-fit recommendations, real enrollment, and activity engagement.
Drawing Scope — an AI figure-drawing coach that runs students through a plan-draw-review practice loop and returns AI-powered critique and scoring to help aspiring artists improve.
Life's Short — a daily step and calorie tracker with offline-first logging, optional cross-device sync, a live leaderboard, and friends.
RevOS — a used-car marketplace built to make pricing more transparent for buyers.

Photo: High schoolers take in a fellow team's presentation during demo day.

Programs like this don't just teach AI concepts. They show students what they're capable of building when given the space to try.

A team walks through the features of their cheating detection prototype, how unique their product is from the competition

Photo: One of the teams demonstrates its cheating-detection prototype and unique features.

That shift from learning about a tool to using it on a problem you care about is where the real learning happens, and it's exactly what AI-CCORE set out to create.

Photo: Students explore Book Nook, an AI tool for personalized book recommendations.

A huge thank-you to our speakers and judges:

This camp wouldn't have been possible without an incredible group of entrepreneurs, investors, and community leaders who gave their time to pour into these students.

Judges listening to high school student presentations.

From left: Dr. Parvathi Chundi, Josh Nichol-Caddy, Dillon De Rozairo, and Scott Henderson.

A huge thanks to the judges for sitting through every pitch, asking the sharp questions, and giving each team honest feedback and suggestions they could actually use:

Dillon De Rozairo — Nebraska Innovation Labs
Josh Nichol-Caddy — Nebraska Business Development Center
Scott Henderson — NMotion powered by gener8tor
Dr. Parvathi Chundi — Professor of Computer Science, UNO College of Information Science & Technology

Your feedback didn't just score a presentation, it gave these students a real sense of how their ideas land in the world, and that's a lesson they'll carry well beyond this summer.

To our speakers — thank you. Throughout the bootcamp, each of you led a session on entrepreneurship and brought a different perspective to the room, giving students a real-world foundation for the products they went on to build:

Dr. Dale Eesley — John Morgan Community Chair in Entrepreneurship and Director of UNO's Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Franchising
Scott Henderson — General Partner, NMotion (powered by gener8tor)
Josh Bartels — Executive Director, Nebraska Angels
Alyssa Cave — Director of Entrepreneurship, Nebraska Startup Academy & Move Venture Capital
Josh Nichol-Caddy — Director, Innovation & Technology Program, Nebraska Business Development Center
Dillon De Rozairo — Founder & COO, Nebraska Innovation Labs
Jenna Smith — The Commonwealth Omaha (confirm name/title before publishing)

Congratulations to the cohort:

Congratulations to Dr. Mahadevan Subramaniam and the entire AI-CCORE team, and to the University of Nebraska at Omaha's College of Information Science & Technology, for another strong cohort. Most of all, congratulations to the students to every team that showed up, built something real, and stood up to present it.

AI-CCORE's Dr. Mahadevan Subramaniam addresses students, mentors, and families.