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Events · Fall 2026

Weekly meetings at Woolsey Hall

Students, faculty, alumni and the Wichita community are welcome. Each event lists its own date, time and place.

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A speaker presents a slide titled "How Parameters Learn?" to a lecture hall during the Chocolathon.

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  1. Workshop

    Set up your own AI agent

    · Groover Labs, Wichita

    With Coding Club, Newman University and The Newman Institute for AI & the Common Good

    Led by Robert Dickson, Chief Information Officer, Wichita Public Schools

    Bring a laptop and leave with an agent you can text. Hermes Agent is free and open source: it runs on your own machine, remembers what you tell it, and answers you over Telegram. Free, and no coding experience needed.

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    Flyer: A hands-on Hermes Agent workshop. Set up your own AI agent. Led by Robert Dickson, Chief Information Officer, Wichita Public Schools. Wed, Oct 21, 5 to 7 PM, Groover Labs, Wichita. With AI Club, Coding Club at Newman University and The Newman Institute for AI & the Common Good. RSVP by scanning the code.

  2. Tabling

    AI Club Informational Tabling

    · Rhatigan Student Center

    Find out what AI Club is, who it is for, and what AI 101 covers.

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  3. Speaker

    AI Club Meeting: AI 101

    · Woolsey Hall 110A

    Learn the basics of AI, what AI is, common uses of AI and AI safety. Food, snacks and beverages.

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    Flyer: AI 101, learn the basics of AI. What is AI, common uses of AI, AI safety. Wed, Oct 28, 5 to 8 PM, Woolsey 110A. Food, snacks and beverages. RSVP by scanning the code.

  4. Weekly meeting

    AI Club Meeting

    · Woolsey Hall

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  5. Weekly meeting

    AI Club Meeting

    · Woolsey Hall

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  6. Weekly meeting

    AI Club Meeting

    · Woolsey Hall

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    AI Club Meeting

    · Woolsey Hall

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    AI Club Meeting

    · Woolsey Hall

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What we run

Five kinds of events

  1. Workshops

    Build with the tools people use at work

    Hands-on sessions where everyone builds along. Bring a laptop. No experience needed.

  2. Industry speakers

    People who deploy AI show how

    People who use AI in their jobs walk through real work and take your questions.

  3. Student-led workshops

    Members teach what they built

    Members demo their own projects and show the room how they made them.

  4. Community events

    Meet the people using AI in Wichita

    Industry visits and joint events with partners on and off campus.

  5. Hackathons

    Build it, then pitch it

    Teams take on real problems from partners, then build or pitch a solution.

Hackathons

Hackathons we ran and joined

The Chocolathon opening in a Woolsey Hall lecture hall, with "Welcome to the Chocolathon" and the Cocoa Dolce and AI Club logos on the screen.

Hosted · Sep 19, 2026

Chocolathon

A one-day hackathon with Cocoa Dolce. Teams built something Cocoa Dolce could use, or pitched a plan it could act on.

Date
Sep 19, 2026
Place
Woolsey Hall, WSU
Tracks
Build · Pitch
Gallery
17 projects

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Past speakers

Who has spoken at AI Club

Thank you to everyone who has spoken to the club.

Spring 2026 speakers · 10

Chocolathon speakers · 03

Lauren Dunford, CEO and co-founder of Guidewheel, stands with four AI Club members on a balcony of the Barton School of Business atrium.
Lauren Dunford CEO & Co-Founder, Guidewheel

Photos

  • A speaker presents a slide titled "How Parameters Learn?" to a lecture hall during the Chocolathon.
    Chocolathon · Speaker session
  • Students on laptops in a lecture hall during the Lovable workshop, with the Lovable logo on both screens.
    Lovable workshop
  • About two dozen people stand in front of two screens showing Chatterbox, a student-built language-learning app.
    Chatterbox demo
  • A speaker at a podium presents to rows of attendees at Groover Labs.
    Speaker at Groover Labs
  • Nine people stand in front of a wall of colorful blown-glass art during an AI Club industry visit.
    Industry visit
  • The Chocolathon opening in a Woolsey Hall lecture hall, with "Welcome to the Chocolathon" and the Cocoa Dolce and AI Club logos on the screen.
    Chocolathon · Opening
  • A student leads a workshop from the front of a classroom while members follow along on laptops.
    Student-led workshop
  • About 20 AI Club members stand in a row in the Koch Atrium of the Barton School of Business, under the Barton sign and the atrium stairs.
    Koch Atrium, Barton School

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Open to anyone curious about AI

Students, faculty, alumni and the Wichita community are welcome. Bring a laptop. No experience needed.

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