AI Club – Kickoff Presentation

Slide 1 · Leadership & Origins

Who Runs AI Club and Why It Exists

AI Club exists so students can actually use modern AI tools, not just hear about them. The goal is simple: build real AI literacy, experiment together, and learn how to use these systems in schoolwork, projects, and real life without turning everything into cheating or chaos.

Instead of hype, the club focuses on clear examples and hands‑on practice. By the end of the year, the expectation is that members can explain how AI helps, where it breaks, and how to get good results out of it on their own.

Short version:

Use AI on purpose, understand what it is doing, and be ahead of the people who never learned it.

Cole Lieberthal

Co-President & Technical Director

Runs the infrastructure behind the club’s tools and website. Handles demos, builds examples, and keeps the technical side from catching fire mid‑meeting.

Cecil P. Gregg

Co-President & Outreach Lead

Chairs meetings, represents the club to the school, and handles communication and recruiting. Keeps the energy high and the schedule from collapsing under ten other activities.

William Cain

Co-President & Prompting Lead

Designs sessions, writes the prompts that drive live demos, and links theory to actual student use cases. Makes sure every meeting has something people can try that day.

Slide 2 · Personal AI Usage

How We Personally Use AI

Real examples from the three of us — the stuff we actually do, not the polished brochure version.

Cole

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Cole's Usage

Digitizing DVDs, ripping his entire movie shelf, and organizing them on a home Plex server so everything streams anywhere on his network.

ChatGPT helped with file formats, metadata, and fixing “WHY DOES THIS NOT SHOW UP IN PLEX.”

Cecil

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Cecil's Usage

Fun facts, trivia, and “explain this book to me.” While reading 100 Years of Solitude, he used ChatGPT to understand the plot, symbolism, and all the confusing family-tree chaos.

Also fixes emails/texts because spending 10 minutes rewriting a message is crazy when AI can nail it instantly.

William

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William's Usage

Deep dives and hypotheticals — alternate history, politics, “what if Napoleon’s childhood were different,” Roman Empire dynamics, you name it.

Uses ChatGPT as a thinking partner for complex questions and project ideas.

Slide 3 · AI as a Home Tutor

AI as a Home Tutor — Not a Classroom Replacement

A realistic approach: teachers teach, classrooms discuss, and AI supports learning at home when you need clarity, not shortcuts.

We don’t want classrooms turning into “everyone read what AI said.” Teachers are here to teach, guide, and correct — and that should stay the norm.

But at home? When it’s 10:30 PM and you’re stuck on one confusing topic, emailing a teacher isn’t always practical. AI can answer clarifying questions, explain steps, and save everyone time.

Instead of telling students: “Don’t use AI, you’ll get caught,” we should say: “Here’s how to use it the right way.”

AI should be an add-on for learning — not the source of your assignment.
Helps students understand concepts instead of copying answers.
Reduces teacher inbox overload with simple clarifying questions.
Keeps students on track without waiting overnight for help.

💡 The goal: AI fills in the gaps after school, while teachers remain the center of learning.

Slide 4 · Interactive Slideshows

Why Interactive Slides Actually Work

People remember more when they click, flip, search, guess, and participate — not when they stare at 40 lines of text.

Traditional slides are passive. You read, your brain drifts, you forget half of it by the bell. Interactive slides — like this presentation — keep attention because you’re actually doing something.

When students click, guess, reveal answers, or play tiny challenges, memory and engagement go way up. It’s not magic, it’s just how attention works.

This is why we design activities, not lectures. If you're interacting, you're learning.

Example Activity: “Find Gatsby’s Car”

A Where’s Waldo–style challenge where you hunt for the yellow car from The Great Gatsby. It tests attention, pattern recognition, and makes the room way more alive than a normal slide.

You found it! 🚗💛

✨ Games make content memorable. People remember what they interact with.