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North Idaho College offering free AI workshops for teens, adults

Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 10 months, 1 week AGO
| November 8, 2025 1:00 AM

North Idaho College X-Labs, a mission-driven strategy launched this year that aims to bring regional students, instructors and employers together to drive business innovation through problem solving and applied learning, will host two free artificial intelligence workshops for teens and adults.

Both workshops will be at 5:30 p.m. at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, Room 116, 702 E. Front Ave.

• Nov. 14: “How You Can Use AI in Real Life?”

• Dec. 5: “AI and Robots at Your Job”

"The benefit of NIC X-Labs is the gift of coming together, across generations, roles and expertise,” Marita Diffenbaugh, NIC X-Labs director of innovation, said in a Thursday news release. “We had fantastic feedback from our first AI workshop in October, and we look forward to offering two more workshops. Come join us.”

Visit cdalibrary.libcal.com/calendar/events/exploreAI to register.

The workshops are co-organized by the University of Idaho’s Center for Intelligent Industrial Robotics. 

NIC will launch two new courses in the spring to complement activities of X-Labs, including Introduction to Robotics and Innovating for the Real World. Visit websvcfe.nic.edu/student/courses to find them in the catalog.

X-Labs and its partners co-hosted their first community event Monday, featuring 56 community leaders and industry partners for the Business Automation Exploration that brought together education and industry to share resources and to collaborate about automation, AI and robotics.

The "X" in X-Labs represents the intersection of people and ideas that also connects education with industry.

Visit nic.edu/x-labs/ or contact Diffenbaugh at [email protected] for details.