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Why Your High School Student Should Have a GitHub Repo (and What Belongs in It)
A paper says what a student found. A GitHub repo shows how they did it. Why every student doing technical research or building should have one, what a good one contains, and what to avoid. github for high school students, github portfolio high school. high school coding portfolio, github repo research project, student ai project github

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2 days ago4 min read


The Other Innovation Path: High School Student Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI
Research is one way for a student to show real ability. Entrepreneurship is the other, and AI has made it more powerful than it has ever been for a young person. Here is what it is, why the timing matters, and what it looks like. This is high school student entrepreneurship in the age of AI. What it is Student entrepreneurship isn't a lemonade stand, and it doesn't have to mean starting a company. It's the habit of finding a real problem, building something that works for rea

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3 days ago3 min read


Five Ways AIClub Research Institute Is Different: High School Research, High School Entrepreneurship
Five ways AIClub Research Institute stands out. A record you can check 400 wins and counting. Mentors in Residence, backed by instructors. No cohorts. Interdisciplinary, and focused on AI. Not just a research paper. Also apps and entrepreneurship. Backed by founders who have PhDs, publications, patents, and have founded multiple companies. At a time when many students and families are concerned about what AI means to the future, we show students what they can become in an

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6 days ago3 min read


Beyond The Publication: Student Submission Shortlisted for Best Impact Award at NeurIPS Climate 2026
A submission by AIClub students has been shortlisted for the Best Impact Award at the NeurIPS 2026 workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. What the workshop is, what a shortlisting means, and what impact means.
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Oct 203 min read


What Makes a Good Research Publication for a High Schooler?
We've written about the range of papers our students have published and the wins that came with them. A natural next question is what makes a publication good in the first place. Acceptance matters, but it isn't the whole answer. So - what else makes a good research publication for a high schooler? 1. It starts from the student's own interest The best papers begin with something the student already cares about: a field, a problem, a hobby, a person they know. That helps in

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Oct 153 min read


Interdisciplinary by Design: What High School Student AI Research Really Looks Like
Interdisciplinary by Design: What Student AI Research Really Looks Like
Publications at IEEE, SPIE, ACM, and other professional conferences across medicine, agriculture, space, climate, music, and more. Here's what interdisciplinary AI research looks like when high school students do it.

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Oct 135 min read


Why All Our Mentors Are Mentors in Residence: The Difference Dedicated Mentorship Makes
A ride-share match is a great design for a ride and a bad design for mentorship. Here's what changes when mentors are part of the institution, shown through three composite scenarios from real situations.

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Oct 84 min read


Our Mentors Watched the Whole Journey: Three Playbooks Behind So Many Students at Elite Colleges
Our mentors have watched many students' full journeys to elite colleges — not a single project, the whole arc. Here are three real playbooks we've seen work.

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Sep 276 min read


New to Science Fairs? From Our Experience as Judges, What to Know About Winning Science Fairs
New to Science Fairs - a guide from AIClub mentors who have judged at every level of science fair.

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Sep 246 min read


Does AP Calculus Actually Prepare You for AI Olympiad? We Asked Someone Who'd Know.
A student with 5s in AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics went through the USAAIO math syllabus topic by topic and told us honestly what her AP coursework did — and didn't — cover.

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Sep 224 min read


A Stanford Professor Told Our Students That Programming Is About to Change
Stanford ICME's Ashwin Rao spoke to AIClub Research Institute students about his new paper on the future of programming — and why knowing how to ask a precise question may matter more than knowing how to code.

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Sep 193 min read


10 Top STEM & Entrepreneurship Competitions for High School and Middle School (Yes Our Students Have Wins In All Of Them)
Following our 400 wins announcement, we wanted to go deeper — not on the wins, but on the competitions themselves. What do you actually submit? What gets judged? What skill does each one really reward? There are many competitions. These are the top 10 that students can enter to demonstrate national and international recognition of their work. 1. Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) What you submit: A full independent research report, up to 20 pages, written to resemble a re

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Sep 177 min read


The Numbers Don't Lie: Where Our Students Get In
Let's talk results. 81% of our graduates landed at a school that's either a household name or the #1 destination for their specific major. We're talking the kind of admits that make other parents ask, "wait, how did they get in there?" Here's the breakdown — and just how hard these doors actually are to open. Nearly Half Went Somewhere Ultra-Elite 48.6% of our graduates — essentially one out of every two — got into an Ivy League school, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, Caltech

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Sep 133 min read


400 Research Wins and Counting: 5 Numbers Worth Knowing
AIClub Research Institute students have logged more than 400 wins — competitions, publications, patents, and more. We could give you all 400. Here are the five takeaways that matter most. Over 100 papers accepted at professional, peer-reviewed research conferences Not school projects. Papers accepted through the same peer review that professional researchers go through — at IEEE, SPIE, ACM, AAAI, and NeurIPS Climate Change. The latter is widely considered one of the most pres

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Sep 123 min read


Testimonials! What Parents and Students Are Saying About AIClub Research Institute
Testimoials! What Parents and Students Are Saying About AIClub Research Institute

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Sep 73 min read


Every AIClub Research Institute Student Who Applied Won an NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award
Every AIClub Research Institute student who applied for a 2026 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award was recognized. Here's what the award is, why it matters, and how our students got there.

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Sep 43 min read


100% Acceptance to SPIE - High School Research!
All five AIClub Research Institute projects who submitted to the Machine Learning Applications and Digital Image Processing Workshops of...

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Apr 29, 20241 min read


Congratulations! 100% Conrad Challenge Finalists!
All AIClub Research Institute Teams that applied for the Conrad Challenge were selected as finalists. Read on to discover more about this...

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Mar 11, 20242 min read


Celebrating International Women's Day - AIClub releases diversity stats
March 8th is International Women's Day! To celebrate - AIClub is once again releasing our diversity stats - showing how AI can be...

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Mar 6, 20242 min read


Congratulations Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) National Qualifiers!
The JSHS regional season is underway, and two students have already qualified for the JSHS National Symposium in May in New Mexico! What...

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Feb 26, 20241 min read
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