At a glance
- What: Ramara 2050, a four-week summer learning experience. Volunteer and unpaid.
- Who: up to two Ramara residents, 18 or older. Living in Ramara is required.
- Status: applications are unavailable while Ramara Hub is read-only.
- Program: starts the second week of August, runs four weeks.
- Time: light and part-time, mostly remote with short check-ins.
- Cost: free.
This page preserves the description of the Ramara 2050 summer learning experience. Ramara Hub is a free, independent community resource with checked-in, sourced civic answers. Applications are not being collected from the read-only site.
What you'll actually do
Let's be honest: you probably already use AI. This isn't a beginner class. It's about taking that ability and making it rigorous, trustworthy, and presentable, the difference between "I made a thing with AI" and work a business or a community would actually rely on.
Make it trustworthy
Learn to ground AI work in real sources, check claims, and never guess, the standard that makes people trust an answer.
Ship something real
Build a project that goes live or in front of real people, not a folder that sits unseen.
Make it presentable
Turn your work into something you can show, explain, and stand behind, the skill that gets noticed in the business world.
Work like a pro
Scope, build, and finish with a clear weekly rhythm and direct feedback, how real projects actually get shipped.
No coding or technical background is required. If you already tinker with AI or tech, even better, that's an asset, not a prerequisite. Curiosity and reliability matter most.
Example projects
To give you a feel, a project might be something like:
- Researching and writing a clear, sourced explainer on a local topic residents keep asking about.
- Building a small tool or page that makes some piece of township information easier to find.
- Designing a more modern, visual version of the Hub, with charts, data visualizations, even short explainer videos, to show what a civic resource can look like.
- Turning a messy public record into a clean, checkable summary people can actually use.
- Helping shape how the Hub answers a category of questions, end to end.
None of these are set in stone. Your actual project depends on where the Hub is when you start and what you're genuinely interested in, we'll choose it together.
The shape of it
- Interviews: the final week of June.
- Program: starts the second week of August and runs four weeks.
- Time: light and part-time, with short check-ins a few times a week plus your own project time.
- Where: mostly remote, with check-ins. It fits around work and life.
- Cost: none. It's a free, volunteer learning experience.
- Late JuneInterviews. This is also where we cover orientation, so week one isn't spent on logistics.
- Week 1 (mid-August)Settle in, learn the tools, and lock in your project.
- Weeks 2–3Build, with short regular check-ins and direct feedback.
- Week 4Finish, polish, and get it presentation-ready.
- This fallPresent what you built to the community, a real, proud line for your resume or applications.
Who we're looking for
We're offering up to two spots this year, ideally one resident from a rural, septic-system part of the township and one from an urban, serviced area, so the experience reflects both sides of our community.
- A Ramara resident, 18 or older. Living in Ramara is required, this is for our community.
- Curious, reliable, and a clear communicator.
- Wherever you're at, in college or university, recently finished, working, or figuring out your next step, you're welcome to apply.
- A genuine interest in your community, public or civic service, or how local decisions get made is a real plus. If that's you, tell us about it.