Chonnam National University said it has wrapped up a special artificial intelligence (AI) training camp for incoming freshmen, part of its Glocal University 30 initiative to boost students’ AI skills before they start academic courses at the campus. The education innovation office and the university’s software-centered academic affairs team jointly ran the AI Capability Enhancement Program for Prospective Freshmen, which took place from Feb. 2 to Feb. 12 and drew 117 early admission students. The program was designed to make productive use of the time between high school graduation and university entrance and to help the new students acquire essential AI literacy. The course was divided into two major strands: generative AI and physical AI. In the generative AI segment, students used leading AI platforms to design business models and took part in “vibe coding” workshops that let them build their own websites using natural language prompts, even without prior coding experience. The physical AI segment focused on hands-on work that blended software and hardware. Students learned p