Join us for the first full day of activities in the AI Exploration Zone. Explore strategic prompt design in Prompt Lab, try out the Test Your Knowledge GPT, Create Your Own AI Teaching Assistant, create your own Edujam with Suno, embark on the Immersive Learning Scavenger Hunt, or create your own podcast at the “No Experience Required” Podcast Booth.

Zone 1 - Prompt Lab

Explore the Prompt Lab station to learn how to craft, iterate, and apply effective prompts for teaching, instructional design, and administration. Engage in hands-on exercises with role-aligned templates, refine outputs, and save your output to place on a USB file or send it to yourself via email at this interactive zone.

Zone 2 - Test Your Knowledge (TYK) GPT

Explore the Test Your Knowledge GPT station to learn how generative AI transforms teaching with adaptive, interactive, immersive learning experiences in this hands-on, practical zone. Participants will design scenario-based quizzes with branching logic, craft layered prompts for personalized feedback, and prototype real-time remediation. Learn frameworks and workflows to create differentiated learning paths that respond dynamically to learners’ inputs.

Zone 3 - Create Your Own AI Teaching Assistant

Explore the Create Your AI Teaching Assistant station to craft a digital assistant, using AI tools like DALL·E, ChatGPT, and ElevenLabs.  Create a custom avatar, a conversational script design, and then add a realistic AI voiceover to create your one-of-a-kind teaching assistant.   Discover hands-on workflows to build and export assets ready for seamless and innovative integration into your higher education courses and presentations.

Zone 4 - EduJams with Suno

EduJams with Suno empowers educators, designers, and administrators to craft custom audio intros and dynamic transitions using AI. Through ChatGPT-generated lyrics and SunoAI’s music engine, participants will produce real-time mood-matched theme songs and stings, harnessing music’s power to capture attention, reinforce learning outcomes, and create engaging, memorable, immersive educational experiences.

Zone 5 - Immersive Learning Scavenger Hunt

Step inside the metaverse using FrameVR.io, where curiosity fuels discovery. Explore an interactive virtual environment filled with AI-powered chatbots, QR code clues, spatial audio messages, and hidden artifacts pointing the way forward. Each interaction nudges players closer to an elusive goal: the secret Faculty Lounge. Experience firsthand how immersion, narrative, and intelligent AI prompts can transform education into a memorable, game-based journey of problem-solving, collaboration, and digital literacy.

Zone 6- "No Experience Required" Podcast Booth

Enter a virtual studio where education meets AI. The Podcast Booth guides attendees to use Google AI Studio’s Gemini tools to ideate scripts, generate lifelike narration, and produce polished podcast segments with no technical experience needed to enhance teaching, design micro-learning, or share campus updates, with downloadable audio and transcripts in minutes.