Before Club
Check the current lesson, bring questions, and make sure your Colab files are accessible.
STUDENT QUICK START · AIO-SI1
Your first week
starts here.
USAAIO Club is a student-led, one-hour weekly learning community for building the mathematics, coding, and machine-learning reasoning used in AI Olympiad problems.
THE WEEKLY RHYTHM
Learn together. Practice independently.
The meeting introduces ideas and unblocks students. Deeper learning continues through the portal between meetings.
During Club
Review a concept, solve a worked example, code or reason together, and begin a challenge.
After Club
Complete all required questions, review feedback, and try up to ten optional mastery problems.
FIRST CLUB MEETING · 60 MINUTES
Orientation plus a real AI foundation.
The first meeting is not a long lecture. Students leave knowing how the Club works and having completed their first mathematical AI activity.
Welcome & purpose
Meet the student leaders, understand the Round 1 goal, and see how the Club year is organized.
Portal setup
Sign in, choose a nickname and pixel avatar, and find lessons, feedback, practice, and the leaderboard.
How the Club works
Review the weekly rhythm, homework expectations, Colab workflow, XP rules, and responsible AI policy.
AI readiness check
Try a short, low-stakes set of Python, vector, matrix-shape, and reasoning questions.
First concept lab
Work together on a compact example connecting vectors and matrix shapes to AI data.
Your first mission
Open Lesson 1, identify all required questions and ten optional mastery problems, and save a draft.
Exit ticket
Share one thing you understood, one question you still have, and your plan before the next meeting.
PORTAL BASICS
Five things every student should know.
Complete every required question and show the reasoning, calculations, or code behind the answer.
Automatic questions return a result quickly. Written reasoning and code may wait for instructor review.
Ten additional problems deepen the lesson. A score of 90% may unlock the next lesson early when enabled.
Work in a copy saved to your own Drive, run the notebook, and share a viewable link when submitting.
Required homework earns up to 100 XP per lesson. Each correct or instructor-approved optional problem earns 2 bonus XP, up to 20 per lesson.
READY FOR CLUB?
Sign in and explore your workspace.
Membership accounts are created only after a Club application is approved.