Education Resources from NVIDIA - Take Your AI Teaching and Learning to the Next Level
Free resources range from downloadable, multimedia instructional materials to self-guided, certificate courses - all using the Jetson Nano as the primary hardware tool
Whether you are a professor, student or an individual who is wanting to teach or learn more about AI, NVIDIA has released a number of educational resources to support your needs. You can access all the tools below free of charge to get the most out of your Jetson Nano.
NVIDIA Teaching Kits for Qualified Educators
The NVIDIA DLI Teaching Kits include multimedia and downloadable instructional materials that provide the foundation for understanding and building expertise in AI. Co-developed with university faculty, courses include Accelerated Computing, Data Science, Deep Learning, and Edge AI and Robotics. Each Teaching Kit includes some combination of:
- Lecture slides
- Lecture videos
- Hands-on labs/coding projects/solutions
- Online DLI courses with certification
- eBooks
- GPU cloud resources
Qualified educators can also receive codes for free access to DLI online, self-paced training for themselves and their students.
Jetson AI Courses Specialist/Ambassador Certifications
NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) delivers practical, hands-on training and certification in AI at the edge for developers, educators, students, and lifelong learners. NVIDIA offers two certificate tracks— Jetson AI Specialist that anyone can complete and Jetson AI Ambassadorship for educators and instructors.
Jetson AI Specialist
This certificate, open to anyone, recognizes competency in Jetson and AI using a hands-on, project-based assessment. While this track is ideal for advanced learners to build on their existing AI knowledge, beginners can follow the in-depth video tutorials and get up to speed quickly.
Jetson AI Ambassador
This certificate is for educators and recognizes competency in teaching AI on Jetson. This track is ideal for educators or instructors who want to be fully prepared to teach AI to their students. In addition to the instructor certificate, NVIDIA offers numerous instructional tools and many other benefits.
Getting Started on AI with Jetson Nano
This self-paced, online course is designed for developers, researchers, students, and hobbyists. The goal of the course is to build foundational AI skills to enable people to get creative with the Jetson Nano. The course uses Jupyter iPython notebooks and your own Jetson Nano (hardware not included) to build a deep learning classification project with computer vision models. In this course, participants learn to:
- Set up the Jetson Nano and camera
- Collect image data for classification models
- Annotate image data for regression models
- Train a neural network on your data to create your own models
- Run inference on the Jetson Nano with the models you create
To enroll, please visit the registration page.
To get the materials you need for the course, purchase SparkFun's DLI Kit for Jetson Nano.
NVIDIA’s Free, Online Global Technology Conference (GTC)
Explore the latest technologies and business innovations. Learn from experts how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting industries—and society as a whole. Join NVIDIA for the online conference September 19-22, 2022 and be part of what comes next. Registration is free. Each session is delivered by tech innovators or business leaders using the latest tech advancements to tackle the world’s greatest challenges. Explore real use cases, discover new interests, and get tips from subject matter experts doing groundbreaking work in your field of interest
DLI Instructor-led, hands-on technical training at GTC
If you’re interested in developing key skills in AI, accelerated data science, or accelerated computing, you can get instructor-led training from DLI at GTC. Full-day workshops are taught by DLI-certified instructors who are experts in their fields, delivering industry-leading technical knowledge to drive breakthrough results.
Looking to get your hands on some SparkFun products that allow you to explore AI? Check out our Machine Learning and AI Concept Kit, a perfect starting point for experimenting in this field.
