SAIL has partnered with the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester, Ohio, which has awarded us a $500 grant and given our work a permanent spot on its floor. Our display — a poster on the museum's three pillars of our work, alongside a stand of brochures visitors can take with them — now greets people as they move through the galleries.
The fit is better than it might first appear. The museum exists to tell the story of how information reaches people: the transmitters that carried news across oceans, the decisions about what got broadcast, and the question of who gets to be believed. That is not a different subject from ours. AI literacy is the current chapter of the same story — a new set of systems producing information at scale, and a new generation trying to work out what to trust.
The display lays out what SAIL is and how to reach us: our mission and vision, the case for AI literacy, and the survey findings we keep returning to — that 72% of students say guidance on how to use generative AI responsibly would be helpful, and 79% of teachers say their district has no clear policy on AI in education. Between those two numbers is the gap our volunteers step into every time they teach a session.
The brochures carry our tagline — AI literacy for students, by students — and the three ways into the organization: apply to lead a chapter, get the curriculum guide, or bring a workshop to your own students. Every role is open to high schoolers, and the guide is free.
The museum plans to publish a press release about the partnership. We will link it here once it is out.
For SAIL, the value is reach of a kind we cannot manufacture ourselves. Our workshops put us in front of a classroom at a time. A display in a museum puts us in front of families, teachers, and students who came for something else entirely and leave having encountered the idea that AI literacy is something a young person can learn — and teach.
