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CuriosityMaxxer Lodge

Build with the end in mind — deployment-focused from day one.

The overview

Who this lodge is for

Product-focused, curiosity-maxxing folks who ideally can already read and write basic Python scripts.

Why join

An end-in-focus approach: we cater each session around your Hackday ideas and always aim for deployment-focused learning, so you're building toward something real from day one.

What you'll explore

  • Agentic memory systems
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Agent-to-agent systems
  • AI safety & guardrails
  • AI UI/UX

Skill level

Intermediate

Your captains

Three captains, one lodge

Yash

SCIS (CS) / Year 2

@Yash_annem

Kiara

SCIS (CS) / Year 3

@Accordian0live

Gabriel

MITB / Year 2

@GMSidik

Week by week

The route through the woods

Week 1The fundamentals of AI (+ optional lab: secure API usage via Colab & deployment)
Week 2Vibecoding / rapid prototyping
Week 3Tool use & agentic loops — structured outputs, ReAct loop
Week 4Agentic memory systems — vector DBs, knowledge-graph retrieval & LLM wiki (+ optional lab)
Week 5Model Context Protocol
Week 6Agent-to-agent systems + human-in-the-loop workflows
Week 7AI safety & guardrails (+ possibly AI UI/UX — streaming components)
Week 8Deployment + prep day for AI Lodge Hack Day

Weekly topics are indicative and may shift to fit the lodge.

this lodge has wrapped

A Fall 2026 lodge

CuriosityMaxxer Lodge ran in the Fall 2026 cohort and isn't recruiting now. It's kept here so you can see what a lodge looks like — explore this cohort's lodges to find your fit.