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.

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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.

We don’t take a cut. Sponsorships are tax-deductible gifts to ALL Applied AI Network Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, restricted to the chapter you pick. No platform fee, and no “file a request and wait six weeks.”
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 that gets used The GPUs a campus already has, and students with a reason to run something on them.
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.
515 members at the founding chapter — with five more chapters starting
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.

See what officers actually get

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

Sponsors fund what a chapter actually needs: food for the first meeting, prize pools for a hackathon, mentor hours from people who do this for a living. Org-wide partners back every chapter; chapter sponsors fund local programs, restricted to that chapter’s work.

Pooled GPU compute for member projects is what we’re working toward with NVIDIA next — it isn’t live yet.

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

Start a chapter at your university.

MSOE is the founding chapter; the playbook is open-source and ready for the next 10. Universities are standing up serious AI hardware faster than they are standing up the student communities to use it — that community layer is the part we help you build. 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 things we got tired of doing by hand.

We ran a club before we built any of this. Everything here started as a spreadsheet somebody hated.

01

A profile that keeps itself current.

Nobody keeps their résumé current in October of junior year. So we build a profile from your LinkedIn and GitHub and keep it fresh, and that’s what a sponsor sees when they come looking. You can turn sponsor visibility off whenever you want.

02

Your chapter site, in ten minutes.

Name it, connect GitHub, pick two colors. You get a real site that redeploys every time someone pushes — and nobody has to hunt down whoever set up the WordPress in 2021.

03

Sponsors say what they’re bringing.

Create the event, then email your sponsors an invite. They say what they’re bringing — money, cloud credits, mentor hours, or a real problem for students to work on — and it shows up on the event page with their name on it.

04

Check-in that takes one second.

One code at the door. Members scan on the way in, first-timers make an account once, and attendance is done before the pizza gets there.

05

Nobody fronts their own money.

A student should not be floating $400 for pizza and waiting three weeks to get it back. When a sponsor funds an event, an officer gets a virtual card scoped to that event, and the charges land against it.

06

One page instead of the email chain.

Officers see teams, submissions and who’s coming. Sponsors get a read-only link instead of a seventh reply-all.

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.

Start one at your school.

Every chapter here began with one student who got tired of waiting for someone else to run it. If that’s you, we’ll help you set it up.

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