As we all know, AI is no longer ‘fast approaching’ but already here. And, while camp will remain the traditionally awesome place your kids have loved, full of GAC and the life lessons which can only be taught at camp, we need to move along (a bit) with the times.
Kate and I have spent a lot of time researching AI to figure out how it can best help us at Weequahic. We are excited to let you know about how we’ll be using this new tool at camp.
Improved ordering and inventory control
We’ve got a LOT of t-shirts and gear we use each summer. Keeping tabs on our current inventory and placing the correct orders has been a challenging to this point. AI will help us tighten up and streamline the process.
Improved Workflows for Program
While the campers love our daily program – they get to pick but enjoy the activity only with their age groups – it takes a lot of work to set up and run on the backend. AI has already reduced the workload on our programming team and we expect the time savings to continue.
The Nightly News from Cole
Yes, this has been a wonderful labor of love from Director Cole, let’s face it – he’s getting old. So, we’ve trained an AI bot on all of his during the summer ‘nightly news’ posts. The new bot will do the majority of the writing, taking into account the meals, Evening Activities and more. Cole will review it before posting… but we’re sure it’ll be close enough.
Photos and Videos
We are expecting the ‘image engines’ to be powerful enough this summer to create great photos and videos of your kids playing, waterskiing and laughing together. So, rather than hiring videographers and photographers, we’ll just let AI create images for you. You’ll never know the difference! Lastly…
Office Management & Phone Calls
Yes, Office Manager Morgan is a superstar. She’ll get to shine even more as we’ve moved to an automated answering service that will be able to handle the vast majority of your questions during the summer. We’ve even trained it to sound just like Morgan! Anything the system cannot answer adequately will be passed on for Cole to answer… when he’s not waterskiing.
PHEW… so much new tech and we feel we’ve only scratched the surface. Perhaps we’ll be able to run camp with an AI staff? We’ll see. Can’t wait to see everyone at camp this summer!
Oh, and enjoy tomorrow… April 1st.
(PS – if you’ve not already figured it out, this is an April Fool’s post like a few before it…. Hope we got you for a little bit!)
