NFLS AI Club at the School Club Fair
The NFLS AI Club made its public debut at Nanjing Foreign Language School’s annual club fair. As President, I set up the booth to introduce students to what the club is about — and, just as importantly, why it exists.
The pitch was simple: artificial intelligence is already part of how you study, search, write, and communicate. The question is whether you want to understand it, or just use it.
What We Presented
At the booth, we walked curious students through the club’s focus areas:
- Technical skill — building real models, understanding real mathematics, writing real code in Python and PyTorch
- Critical thinking — reading and discussing how AI systems affect fairness, privacy, education, and social life
- Community — a group where asking “but why does this work?” is more valued than just getting the code to run
We also showed some live demos: an interactive visualization of how a neural network classifies data, and a quick walk through what gradient descent actually looks like as a curve descending toward a minimum.
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Who Joined
The response exceeded expectations. Students came with very different motivations — some wanted to learn to code properly, some had already fine-tuned models and wanted deeper math, some came specifically because they were thinking about fairness and wanted a community that took those questions seriously.
That range is exactly right. The club’s job isn’t to produce one kind of AI person. It’s to build a room where different kinds of curiosity strengthen each other.
New members were onboarded and the first official meeting was scheduled for later in September.
