The open-source playbook
for university AI

Structured curriculum, mentorship playbooks, and hub infrastructure that turns compute access into a thriving student AI community — and students into the most employable AI talent in their region.

Students Learn AI for free Open-source curriculum from zero to shipping.
Officers Start a chapter Dashboard, hub site, playbooks — and direct sponsor payouts.
Sponsors Hire from the network Browse chapters, propose sponsorships, send outreach.
Schools & faculty Bring this to your campus Institutional partnership — let’s talk.

500+ members at the founding chapter (MSOE). Open-source playbook rolling out to more universities now — live network state.

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Speaker event at MSOE
Students collaborating during hackathon
Innovation Lab presentation
ROSIE supercomputer tour
RTX 4090 giveaway at ROSIE Awards
Research group presentation
Industry hiring panel
HacksGiving 2024 group
MAIC first event crowd
Speaker event at MSOE
Students collaborating during hackathon
Innovation Lab presentation
ROSIE supercomputer tour
RTX 4090 giveaway at ROSIE Awards
Research group presentation
Industry hiring panel
HacksGiving 2024 group
MAIC first event crowd
How we’re different

Real applied AI work. Real outcomes for everyone.

Every chapter member builds a verified record of real activity — events run, projects shipped, awards earned, GitHub work. That record turns into hiring outcomes for students, recruiting outcomes for sponsors, and a thriving chapter for officers. It’s the network that closes the loop.

Students

Real applied AI work, in your portfolio.

Active members ship projects, run events, win awards, contribute code. By graduation your verified record speaks for itself — and it’s the surface recruiters and grad programs see first.

Eboards

Bigger chapter, less officer time.

One-click chapter site, QR check-in, automatic leaderboards, sponsor proposals routed through the dashboard. Scale your club without scaling your officer hours.

Sponsors

Talent signal recruiters miss.

Sponsors discover the AI engineers your chapter is producing — projects shipped, events run, awards earned, GitHub work — before anyone else sees a résumé. Better-than-LinkedIn signal, verified by the chapters themselves.

100% of sponsorship dollars route directly to the chapter. No university foundation cut, no platform fee, no “file a request and wait six weeks.” ALL is filing for 501(c)(3); donations qualify for tax-deduction via our fiscal sponsor in the interim.
01 Why this exists

AI moves faster than any curriculum.
Students need a better path.

Students graduate with theory but without the applied skills that get them hired. We started ALL believing the best way to learn AI is to use it on real problems, surrounded by people who already do it professionally.

That's what MSOE's AI Club (MAIC) proved over four years — growing to 500+ members and partnerships with NVIDIA, Direct Supply, and others with no playbook, no template, and no parent organization. ALL exists to package that model so any university can deploy it.

Compute access Universities gain GPU infrastructure that students need a reason to use.
Mentorship loop Upperclassmen mentor newcomers who build real portfolio pieces.
Year-round community Competition energy expands into projects, research groups, and speaker series.
Industry pipeline Students with real experience become the strongest hires. Sponsors keep coming back.
500+ members across 5 schools — and growing
300+ students per project period
50+ student publications
10+ direct sponsor hires per cycle

“The AI Club completely changed my trajectory. I came in as a CE student with zero coding experience — within a semester I'd built a computer vision prototype for a Databricks Innovation Lab and had three internship offers.”

MSOE student, Class of 2029

“We've hired more quality candidates through Innovation Labs than any career fair we've attended. The students come in with real project experience, not just coursework. They are now the majority of our 50-person AI team.”

Applied AI Director, Direct Supply
02 How it works

Four formats. One flywheel.

New members bring the passion — what they need is direction. We pair that energy with experienced mentors who point it toward real projects from day one. Each event type feeds the next.

Industry hiring panel

Speaker Events

Engineers from industry show what they're building. You meet the people doing the work, ask real questions, and walk out with internship leads.

Innovation Lab kickoff

Innovation Labs

A company brings a real problem and real data. You join a mentor-led team, build a working solution over 2 months, and present to their leadership.

Research group presentation

Research Groups

Pick a topic, go deep for a semester. Small teams produce publications, open-source tools, or technical reports.

Students hacking

Hackathons

12–48 hours. Build something, ship it, put it in your portfolio. You learn more in one weekend than most courses teach all year.

03 What you get

Everything a hub needs to launch and scale.

Every piece of this infrastructure exists for one reason: to turn students into the most employable AI talent in their region. You don't start from scratch — you join a network that's already proven.

The Network

Every chapter member builds a verified profile of real activity — events, projects, awards, GitHub work — that follows them for life. Shared sponsors across chapters, cross-chapter mentor playbooks, and a single talent surface sponsors browse when they’re hiring. The asset that produces the +38% salary outcome.

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The Tools

Hub site template (one-click chapter site), chapter dashboard (QR check-in, event creation, leaderboards, financial pipeline), sponsor portal (reveal-on-approval outreach), open-source learning tree, operational playbooks. Everything an officer needs to scale their chapter without scaling officer hours.

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The Resources

GPU compute (NVIDIA’s 50-state university supercomputer rollout), AI API credits (Anthropic, OpenAI), mentor hours, scholarships, prize pools. Org-wide partners back every chapter; chapter-specific sponsors fund local programs. 100% of any chapter sponsorship dollars route directly to the chapter.

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Written and curated by working AI engineers, researchers, and educators.

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MSOE is the founding chapter; the playbook is open-source and ready for the next 10. NVIDIA's 50-state initiative is bringing supercomputers to hundreds of universities — this is the community layer that makes that compute count. Sign up for the dashboard to get started instantly, or reach out if you need help.

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04 Inside the network

Six killer features that make the network work.

Most chapter-management tools stop at attendance tracking. ALL is built around six pieces that turn chapter activity into outcomes — for students, officers, and sponsors all at once.

01

Living résumés for every member.

Every event a member attends, every project they ship, every award they earn, every GitHub commit they make — all of it becomes a verified credential on their network profile. Points on a chapter leaderboard are local; this profile is for life. Sponsors browse it instead of LinkedIn. Active members across the network graduate into starting salaries +38% above their non-member peers.1

  • QR check-in → timestamped attendance credential (not self-reported)
  • LinkedIn “Add credential” verification URL on every event
  • Opt-in for sponsor discovery — member always controls visibility
02

One-click chapter site spin-up.

Officer hits “Create chapter site” in the dashboard. ALL forks the open-source hub template, wires the chapter’s custom subdomain, drops the GitHub Pages action in place. A live, branded chapter site exists about a minute later — no Webflow, no Squarespace, no “who has the password to the WordPress.”

  • GitHub OAuth + Octokit fork in ~60 seconds
  • Subdomain auto-provisioned (eg. maic.all-ai-network.org)
  • Theme via two colors in hub.config.json — no HTML editing
  • Auto-deploys on every push to main
03

Project events with sponsor-invite link.

The hardest events student orgs run — Innovation Labs, hackathons, multi-sponsor research showcases — reduced to a fillable form. Officer enters the goal, picks sign-up and team modes, drops in a sponsor invite link. Sponsor clicks, lands on the event page, approves their commitments (food, recording, IP terms, prizes), and the event hub page goes live with their branding the moment the officer hits “Publish.”

  • Draft / publish state machine — iterate before going live
  • GitHub Classroom auto-provisioning (3 template modes)
  • Multi-sponsor configs: pooled, problem tracks, open submission
  • Lightweight participation agreement (checkbox, not signature)
04

QR check-in at every meeting.

Print the QR code, project it, or share it on Slack. Members scan once when they arrive. Attendance is logged, points awarded, leaderboard updated, and a verified credential dropped on their network profile — in the same instant. No spreadsheets, no roll calls, no “were you actually there?” arguments.

  • Single QR per event with a printable poster template
  • Points configurable per event type
  • Member always controls whether the event becomes a public credential
  • Bulk-import attendance from past events without an ALL QR
05

Stripe Issuing virtual cards for event spending.

When a sponsor commits to feed a hackathon, that money lands in the chapter’s Stripe Issuing balance and the officer provisions a virtual card — per event, per category, per team. Student adds it to Apple Wallet, taps to pay at checkout, snaps the receipt, and the spend reconciles itself against the event. No more reimbursement Slack threads.

  • Per-event, per-category, per-team card limits
  • Apple Wallet / Google Pay tokenization
  • Auto-reconciliation by event + category
  • Refund fallback path for after-the-fact reimbursement
06

The organizer hub.

The single source of truth that replaces the email chain running most multi-sponsor events. Every published project event gets an organizer-only hub: officers, invited sponsors, mentors, and the faculty advisor all land in the same place — with sponsor commitments, team formation, spending ledgers, and mentor session notes visible in real time. End-of-event recap PDFs are one click.

  • Sponsor commitment + status + preferences in one row
  • Per-team spending ledger with receipts attached
  • Mentor booking + session notes per team
  • One-click recap PDF for sponsors and advisors

1 ALL Applied AI Network Spring 2025 graduate outcomes among active members (≥2 chapter events in a semester or ≥1 project event), across all majors. Compared against the same universities’ non-member graduate cohort.

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