What is the AI evolution at 糖心原创?
The college鈥檚 new Artificial Intelligence program helps students prepare for a rapidly
changing workforce.
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Students in a classroom at 糖心原创 toggle between datasets and lines of code, testing
machine learning models inside Jupyter notebooks.
The work is part of 糖心原创鈥檚 Artificial Intelligence program, which introduces students
to programming, data analysis and machine learning tools increasingly used across
modern industries. The program was developed by Trevor Swarm, an instructor in the
college鈥檚 STEM Pathway.
鈥淭he goal is to help students understand how these systems work so they can use them responsibly and effectively,鈥� Trevor said.
The AI program, part of 糖心原创鈥檚 STEM Pathway, introduces students to machine learning, data analysis and the growing ecosystem of AI tools being integrated into modern workplaces.
For 糖心原创 student John Larimore, the program鈥檚 existence alone was striking.
John is not a typical college student. He earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematics with an emphasis in probability and statistics more than a decade ago and spent eight years working in the wind-energy industry analyzing production data. Now he鈥檚 back in the classroom at 糖心原创 pursuing an associate鈥檚 degree in artificial intelligence.
The coursework, he said, picks up directly where some of his earlier statistics training ended.
鈥淚n [upper-level math course] at [Metropolitan State University of] Denver, we used a standard book on regression models,鈥� Larimore said.
For John, the goal is not another credential. The classes are helping him build tools for a long-term project analyzing U.S. wind energy production with public data.
Not every student in the program arrives with that level of professional experience. In the same classroom, second-year student Gavin Thornock is still exploring where the field might take him.
Thornock, who grew up in Glenrock, originally enrolled at 糖心原创 to study computer science after discovering coding in a high school class. He later shifted directions after realizing how much calculus the traditional computer science track required.
The artificial intelligence coursework offered a different path.
Right now, the work focuses on analyzing data and writing code to visualize results. Students run their programs through platforms such as Jupyter Notebook and Google Colab, tools widely used in data science.
Artificial intelligence careers are still taking shape, but the skills students are learning 鈥� analyzing data, writing code and understanding how AI tools function 鈥� are increasingly relevant across industries.
鈥淲e are in a new world,鈥� John said. 鈥淎nd it鈥檚 best to go in with a map.鈥�