• Form a team — up to 4 students.
• Pick one track — LLM, Cyber‑AI, or Edge AI.
• Build with our tutorials + mentors all week.
• Present Friday — 10 minutes, demo + story.

Start here (everyone):

• ▶ Get‑Started slides — set up your tools
• Full Handbook — every lab in depth
• sjsujetsontool guide

No experience needed — the tutorials walk you through everything.

SSH Command

Every Jetson has an assigned port mapped to its ID (xx matches host sjsujetson-xx):

ssh student@headscale.forgengi.org -p 200xx

Example for device sjsujetson-03:

ssh student@headscale.forgengi.org -p 20003

SSH Config Shortcut

Add this block to your computer's ~/.ssh/config to simplify connection and prevent timeouts:

Host jetson-home-03
    HostName headscale.forgengi.org
    User student
    Port 20003
    ServerAliveInterval 30
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null

Then log in directly from your terminal:

ssh jetson-home-03

1. Install VS Code & Extension

• Download: Install VS Code for macOS or Windows from code.visualstudio.com.
• Extension: Open VS Code, go to the Extensions tab (Cmd+Shift+X or Ctrl+Shift+X), search for Remote - SSH (by Microsoft), and click Install.

2. Connect in One Click

• Press Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows) to open the Command Palette.
• Type Remote-SSH: Connect to Host... and press Enter.
• Select your configured host (e.g., jetson-home-03).
• VS Code will launch a new window connected to the Jetson!

Ideas to spark you

• A web chat app with your own personality/system prompt
• "Chat with a document" (RAG) — notes, a rulebook, a syllabus
• An agent that uses tools to get things done

Start here

• Next.js + Nemotron slides · lab
• ReAct Agents slides · lab
• RAG app · ✍️ Prompting

Challenge ideas

• Triage CVEs in a Python project (our sample, or your own)
• Hunt bugs in OWASP Juice Shop — a deliberately vulnerable web app
• Build an agent that explains a vulnerability and suggests a fix

Start here

• AI CVE Triage slides · intro lab
• Tool‑calling triage
• ReAct triage · RAG CVE

Project ideas

• Security monitoring & scene understanding
• An autonomous car
• A voice assistant
• Perception & AI device for robots

Feel free to bring your own devices/components — a USB camera, USB microphone/speaker, or any robotic base.

Start here

• YOLO & VLM detection
• CNN image processing
• ROS 2 / Isaac ROS · LeRobot arm
• CUDA on Jetson

Team Member Awards

• First Place Team
  $100 Amazon Gift Card for each member.
• Second Place Team
  $50 Amazon Gift Card for each member.
• Third Place Team
  $30 Amazon Gift Card for each member.

All winning team members will also receive a physical Certificate of Achievement.

Sample Certificate

• Team & school introduction
• Demo — images / screenshots / video of your results
• Solution & steps — what you built and how

• Challenges — what was hard, how you solved it
• Future improvements — what's next
• Community impact — how this helps real life