Welcome to CalCyAIVR Institute

The California Cyber, AI and VR Institute is a community outreach center that brings in the expertise of CSU and UC level research expertise to the community by offering industry certification bootcamps and research training for community members such as working professionals, college students and high school students at an affordable not-for-profit manner. We are excited to share the success stories of our 2024 research and bootcamp participants who have gained admissions at prestigious universities including UC Berkley, UCLA, UC San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, UCI, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona. 🎓🎉  

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Our Programs

Designed to provide comprehensive learning and research opportunities.

  • Industry Tech Certifications

    Industry-focused bootcamps leading to certifications.
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  • High School Research Internship

    Research Internship opportunities for high school students.
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  • HS CS Project Based Learning

    A three-phase tech training to research project pathway for stellar college applications. 
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High School Research Internship

This year long (January-November) research internship provides an unique opportunity for high school students to participate in Data Science, Cyber Security, Computational Neuroscience, AI and Virtual Reality based research projects as it applies to real life problems such as business and healthcare with mentorship from distinguished University professors from Southern California CSU and UCs. Students build the basic of technical research during weekends over the Spring semester and complete actual research project, write a poster and paper during the intensive weekday Summer and early Fall semester. Primarily online with a few in-person lab experiments and field trips. Applicants will be accepted after an interview with the program director.Optional lodging available for non-CA applicants. 2024 participant success includes presentations at MIT URTC and winning positions in the CSU Poster Competition.

  • Sessions

    • Jan-May, 2026, weekends (tentative)
    • June-Aug, 2026, weekdays (tentative)
    • Sep- Nov, 2026 weekends (tentative)

  • Eligibility

    • Full-time high school students in US
    • Basic coding skills preferred
    • 4 hrs per week commitment during Feb-May and Aug-Nov.
    • 10 hrs per week commitment during June-July

  • Logistics

    • Apply by Oct 1, 2025
    • Competitive acceptance process
    • Limited income and merit based scholarship available.
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CS Dojo n' More Technical Bootcamp

We are excited to offer the 2-week summer CS exploration Bootcamp during the winter 2025 and summer of 2026. For grades 8-10. Topics: Part 1: Introduction to CS, AP CS Principles, AP CS A Part 2: Introduction to Data Science, ML and AI using Python. Part 3: Introduction to Cyber Security, Computer Networks and Cloud Computing Part 4: Introduction to Game Dev and Virtual Reality.

Industry Tech Cert Boot Camps

Hands on bootcamps leading to industry tech certifications in Cyber, AI, VR and Cloud Computing

  • Cyber Certifications

    Hands-on training leading to Security+, CEH and CISSP to name a few.

  • Cloud Certifications

    Hands-on training to prepare certifications from AWS, GCP and Azure.

  • VR/AR Certifications

    Industry preparedness for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality platform using Unity and Unreal on Quest and similar platforms.

  • AI Certifications

    Hands-on training for industry preparedness for OpenAI and other LLM based SW development.

2024 College Admissions!! 🎓🎉

We are excited to share the success stories of our 2024 research and bootcamp participants from Troy High School, Diamond Bar High School, Glen A Wilson High School and IPoly High School who have gained admissions at prestigious universities including UC Berkley, UCLA, UC San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, UCI, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona. 🎓🎉

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