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Chapters

Start an AI Literacy chapter at your school.

This fall we are opening the Mayo AI Literacy Club’s program to high schools across the country. We need one student at each school willing to start a chapter.

Open the founder form (Google Forms)

Opens in a new tab and takes about three minutes. Putting your name in is interest, not approval.

Starts with
One student founder and one faculty advisor
Commits to
A meeting a month, and one AI literacy event each semester
Costs
Nothing

What a chapter is for

We started the club at Mayo High School in October 2025. Our mission is to provide every student with access to a foundational AI education: to help students understand AI, evaluate its output, and preserve their own judgment. Chapters are how the program reaches other schools.

A chapter runs the club’s program at its own school, with lessons it can run as written. It meets once a month and runs one AI literacy event each semester. At Mayo we meet every Thursday, one topic talked through around a table.

Students sit around a long wooden table in a classroom with tiled walls, turned toward one another mid-discussion.
A weekly meeting in the MHS Library Classroom.

What you’d teach

AI fundamentals

How modern AI systems work

Prompt engineering

Effective AI use

AI trends & future developments

Critical thinking

Bias & fairness

Hallucination & deepfake detection

Source evaluation

Responsible use

Ethics & alignment

Academic integrity

AI in society

The club’s three program areas and their topics, as listed in its Year One Impact Report (July 2026).

What it takes

A student founder
One student, ideally a sophomore or junior. That gives the chapter a full year before it has to hand off to someone new.
Not the strongest coder. The one who organizes things and finishes them, usually already running something else.
A faculty advisor
One faculty advisor at your school, who attends meetings and signs off on room requests.
A meeting a month
Once it starts, the chapter meets once a month.
An event each semester
The chapter runs one AI literacy event each semester.
Cost
None. There is no budget attached: nothing is purchased, and nothing is billed to the school.

Asking a teacher to advise

Show them this page. The advisor attends the chapter’s meetings and signs off on its room requests.

A teacher who wants to ask us something first can write to the club.

Write to the club as a teacher

What we provide

Lessons you can run as written
Curriculum and lesson materials the chapter can run as written, so nobody has to build a program from scratch.
Support over video
Shyam Christensen and Adam Keegan will support each new chapter directly through its founding year. It happens over video, so it works the same in any state.
A vote on the Central Board
A seat on the Central Board, where every chapter president holds a vote in how the network is run.
In plain words: your chapter has a say in how the network is run, through its president’s vote.

Who supports new chapters

  • Shyam Christensen

    Co-founder and co-president

  • Adam Keegan

    Vice president

Ready to start one?

  • Start a chapter

    For the student who would found it

    The form starts the first of the three conditions above. It doesn’t commit your school to anything.

  • Advise a chapter

    For teachers and faculty advisors

    If a student has asked you to advise a chapter, or you would like to, write to the club.

  • Hear about a chapter

    For students who would rather join one than start one

    Right now the club meets at Mayo High School. To hear about a chapter near you without starting one, tell us your school.

Where we stand

Poster presentation ·

Teaching the Pause: A Student-Led Model for Critical AI Literacy

Presented by the club’s board, Shyam Christensen, Nathan Dozois, Adam Keegan and Niko Lazaridis, at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) in Rochester, Minnesota. The meeting had attendees from 23 countries.

The meeting was hosted at Mayo Clinic. Mayo High School is a Rochester public high school; neither it nor this club is affiliated with Mayo Clinic.

Founded
, at Mayo High School
Debate
We ran a school-wide AI literacy debate at Mayo.
Writing
Members write for this site, as The AI Literacy Review.
Tutor
The tutor the poster describes is on the App Store as Mercurius AI.

About the club The AI Literacy Review Mercurius AI @mayoailiteracy on Instagram