Jacksonville's First VibeCoding Summer Camp
At The Bolles School. Ages 12+. No coding experience needed.
Your Kid Doesn't Need to Know How to Code
That's the whole point. Vibecoding means your kid describes what they want to build in plain English and AI helps them build it. No memorizing syntax. No staring at error messages for hours. Just ideas turning into real, working projects.
A designer and his kids built "BirdDash" — a complete video game with obstacles and scoring — with zero coding experience. A 5-year-old who couldn't even type built a working game by describing what he wanted to AI. A journalist built an educational app for her son with dyslexia over spring break at her kitchen table.
If they can do it, imagine what your kid builds with expert guidance and a whole week to create.
What Your Kid Walks Away With
Games
Kids describe a game concept and AI helps build it. Complete with obstacles, scoring, characters, and levels. This isn't a tutorial — it's their game, their ideas, their design decisions.
Apps
A quiz app, a stats tracker, an interactive story, a tool that solves a real problem. Whatever they can imagine, they can build.
Websites
A website for their own "business," a fan page for something they love, a portfolio they can show family and friends.
The deliverable: Every kid walks away with a working project they built themselves using AI tools. Not a certificate. A real thing they can show people.
Why VibeCoding, Not Regular Coding Camp
Vibecoding is Collins Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year. The editors at one of the world's most respected dictionaries chose this word because it captures a fundamental shift in how humans and computers work together.
Traditional coding camp: Memorize syntax first. Weeks before you build anything meaningful. If you don't like syntax, you're stuck.
VibeCoding camp: Describe what you want in plain English. Build a working project on day one. If you have ideas, you can build.
The real skills your kid learns: Breaking big ideas into smaller steps, explaining those steps clearly to AI, testing what comes back, and debugging. That's software design and systems thinking — where the job market is heading.
This Isn't Hype. The Numbers:
- 41% of all code written globally is now AI-generated (256 billion lines in 2025).
- 85% of professional developers use AI coding tools.
- Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Walmart all use AI coding in production.
- Cursor (AI coding tool) raised at $29.3B valuation.
- Microsoft's CTO predicts 95% of all code could be AI-generated by 2030.
- Google and Replit partnered specifically for "enterprise vibecoding."
Camp Details
- Camp
- Jacksonville's First VibeCoding Summer Camp
- Ages
- 12 and up
- Format
- Half-day camp
- Location
- The Bolles School, Jacksonville, FL
- Dates
- June 2026 (July sessions if demand warrants)
- Instructor
- Fred Marks — Bolles alumnus, AI expert, 3rd-generation Jacksonville native
- Registration
- Through The Bolles School
- Prerequisites
- None — no coding experience required
- Organizer
- VibeCode JAX, LLC
About the Instructor
Fred Marks is a Bolles alumnus and third-generation Jacksonville native (family since 1914). He's an AI expert who runs five companies under the JAX AI Nerd umbrella. He leads Jacksonville's vibecoding community, builds AI receptionists for businesses through Workgentic, Inc, and provides AI consulting through Fred Marks AI, LLC. He's also a single dad who won Ronald McDonald's Earth Angel Award after 9 years of volunteering and served as a certified Guardian ad Litem.
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