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 prestigious climate research venues in the world. Similarly, AAAI is worth pausing on separately: it's one of the most competitive AI research conferences on the planet, where acceptance is a genuinely rare credit even for adult PhD researchers, let alone a pre-college student. Professional publications by 7th graders, and students doing multiple consistent high-quality publications before college, are no longer uncommon.

Wins across world-renowned competitions — from the Conrad Challenge to Regeneron STS to ISEF

Our students haven't just entered these competitions. They've placed in them. Regeneron Scholars, ISEF Finalists, JSHS nationals, Conrad Challenge finalists, and results at Synopsys, NCWIT, Broadcom MASTERS, Technovation Girls, and many others. This isn't one lucky student. Ot's a pattern that repeats across dozens of names, year after year.

Patents — filed and granted

Most people don't file a patent until well into a career, if ever. A number of our students have filed real U.S. patents for their own inventions — and some have already been granted — years before most of their peers have even decided on a college major.

Multiple students hand-picked for Y Combinator's invite-only Startup School

This isn't the free course anyone can sign up for. It's YC's selective, in-person flagship event - the one that flies "the most promising builders in the world" to San Francisco. Several of our students have made the cut, evaluated by YC on their accomplishments.

College acceptances at a scale we haven't even fully counted

MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Caltech, Cornell, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and more. That's just what's in our records. The truth is, we don't have a complete count of every acceptance tied back to a student's AIClub research; the real number is almost certainly higher than anything we could put in this post. One student's acceptance explicitly named their research as what stood out. Another included a note from the university department saying they were impressed by the student's research track record and hoped they'd continue exploring the research opportunities available there. These aren't generic activity-list entries; they're outcomes students have pointed to directly in applications, interviews, essays, etc., as part of their learning journey.

The number that actually matters

None of this happened by accident, and none of it happened to the same ten kids. It's the output of a real structure: in-house mentors working alongside instructors and a dedicated support team for parents. Not a one-off match with an outside mentor, but a system built so that a student's success is the standard outcome, not a matter of luck. Every founder and advisor at AIClub holds a PhD, not just our mentors. We've been through the grad student route ourselves. We know what it means to learn something hard, so we know what real support looks like. That's what we built. The students do the work. We make sure they have what they need to do it well, every step of the way. 400 is just where the count happens to sit. It's still going up every day.

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