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Everything you need to bring AI literacy to your school — curriculum, network, and support. You bring the leadership.
Chapter-in-a-Box
Everything you need to bring AI literacy to your school — curriculum, network, and support. You bring the leadership.
How to start a chapter
Apply
A ten-minute application asking what you want to build, not what you have already done. No teaching or computer science background needed. We reply within a week.
Get the guide
The Chapter-in-a-Box kit: full curriculum, editable slide decks, activity materials, and operational guides for booking a room, recruiting a team, and getting school approval.
Teach
Run your first session, usually fifteen to thirty students. Someone from the national team walks through the material with you beforehand, and you keep every future curriculum update.
What’s in the box
The hardest part of starting something at a school is never the idea — it is the logistics between the idea and thirty students in a room.
The curriculum
What AI is, how language models generate text, where they fail, and how to check them. Built and tested by students, and adaptable from a 30-minute assembly to a full class period.
Slide decks and activities
Editable slides plus the hands-on activities that carry the session. Run the deck as-is or rebuild it around your own examples.
Operational guides
How to pitch the club to an administrator, book a space, recruit a team, and structure a session so it finishes on time.
The network
Access to every other chapter lead. When something works at Mason or Ottawa-Glandorf, you hear about it.
What a first session looks like
Our workshops replace lectures with demonstrations. Run a session exactly like this, or rebuild it once you know your students.
Step 1
Open with a game
Students play QuickDraw, where a neural network guesses their doodles. It gets things right, then confidently gets things wrong, and the conversation starts on its own.
Step 2
Human or AI?
Students read passages and decide which were written by a person. One recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination — fluent, well-formed, and completely false. That is the hallucination lesson.
Step 3
Prompt engineering
Students see how much phrasing changes the output — explaining photosynthesis, versus explaining it to a five-year-old.
Step 4
Close on judgment
Misinformation, bias, privacy, and academic integrity. The goal is not a list of rules but the habit of asking where an answer came from.
The Network
Join a growing movement
Our reach is expanding rapidly. Explore the chapters already driving AI literacy at the grassroots level — and put your school on the map.
Before you apply
Questions we get from every chapter lead
The questions that actually decide whether a chapter happens. If yours is not here, email us.
Do I need to know anything about AI?
No. The curriculum is written for students with no technical background and teaches you as you prepare it. We have accepted leads with no computer science coursework and no teaching experience.
How much time does it take?
Four to eight hours a week during an active term, less between sessions. Most of that is preparation, not teaching — a workshop itself runs thirty to sixty minutes.
What does it cost my school?
Nothing. The curriculum, slide decks, and support are free, and so is every workshop a chapter runs. Grants cover it so cost is never the reason a school says no.
How do I get my school to approve it?
Chapter-in-a-Box includes the operational guides: what to say to an administrator, what a club charter needs, how to find a faculty sponsor, and how to book a space.
Do I have to teach alone?
No. Chapters recruit a small team of volunteers, and someone from the national team walks through the material with you before your first session. You also get access to every other chapter lead.
What if my school is outside Ohio?
Apply anyway. Nothing in the curriculum is state-specific and support is remote. Our chapters are all in Ohio because that is where SAIL started, not because of any limit.
How long does the application take?
About ten minutes. It asks what you want to build, not what you have already done. We read every application and reply within a week.
Still deciding? Read our session recaps or meet the team. Questions go to samarth.khandelwal@studentsforailiteracy.org.
See it in action
Here's what a chapter actually does.