AIYGO Newsletter

The AI Youth Global Organization (AIYGO) was founded by students from the United States, Mexico, South Korea, New Zealand, and Nepal who crossed paths at the awards ceremony for the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC) in Hong Kong.

Now, if you know anything about mathematical modeling, you will know that math modeling is simply applied mathematics and computer science. Similarly, artificial intelligence is simply applied mathematics and computer science. Putting the two together, we thought, why not apply our mathematical modeling schools to artificial intelligence education and research.

And so, on October 22nd, 2025, the AI Youth Global Organization was founded. Their goal was simple. To give high schoolers not only a voice but an influence in the field of Artificial Intelligence, a field that will likely become the most important field of the 21st century.

And this goal was built on two pillars. One, to make rigorous AI education accessible to high schoolers around the world, and, two, to create an international research network serious enough to make a positive impact in the field of machine learning.

From October to December, the organization leaders were quite busy with school, but nonetheless attempted to meet every two weeks, develop online educational resources — notably the Neural Networks from First Principles resource, and draft the very first version of our organization charter. At the time, our network remained very small and limited to the mathematical modeling competition that we had all met each other at.

In December, however, as we neared the Winter break and a few of our Senior Chairs discovered LinkedIn, the organization saw a period of unprecedented growth. From December to late January, the organization developed four new educational resources, covering topics including Physics Informed Machine Learning and Transformers, developed partnerships with organizations such as Non-Trivial, secured three new guest speakers, and saw the admission of about 10-15 new Senior Chairs.

From February to March, the organization saw continued growth as about 10-15 new Senior Chairs and ITC Researchers joined from around the world, and developed four new educational resources covering topics including Physics Informed Neural Networks, World Models (e.g., JEPA), Attention Variants (e.g., GQA, MLA, and KDA), and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback. Our new charter was voted in as well, formalizing many organization operations including the admission of new members, the ⅔ majority voting process for matters involving the core organization, and the overall future success of the organization. In early March, realizing that we had a talented group of students in the organization who were all eager to learn, we began to form research teams to apply our newly acquired knowledge.

From April to May, the organization continued to see steady growth, with about 5-10 new Senior Chairs and ITC Researchers joining the organization. Following AP Exams in early May, however, the organization once again saw a period of significant growth. In May, about 20 new Senior Chairs and ITC Researchers joined the core organization, and the core organization began to coordinate an online startup school and research school. Unfortunately, we were only able to find two (fantastic) speakers — Jonathan Tremblay, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Abhishek Divekar, a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon — for our research school, which unofficially took place in early June. However, our startup school saw significantly more success as you will see in the section.

It was also at this time that the organization began to finalize the directions of its research projects for the rest of the summer.

In early July, AIYGO hosted its first online startup school, where we hosted speakers such as Cory Levy — the Founder of Z Fellows, Divya Narendra — the founder of SumZero, five Y Combinator Founders, two Z Fellows, one a16z speedrun founder, and an Investor at Entrepreneurs First. The full details can be seen on the event info website, and the video recordings will be released soon — unless requested otherwise by the speaker.

Additionally, during July, the organization began its intense learning period to fully develop the research projects they began in June. Some of the topics learned included Polynomial Chaos Expansions, Cellular Sheaves from “Towards a Spectral Theory for Cellular Sheaves” by Jakob Hansen and Robert Ghrist, Flow Matching and Diffusion Models, a little bit of Compiler Theory (specifically the Chomsky Hierarchy), and some advanced Reinforcement Learning frameworks.

In early August, two of the AIYGO’s Co-Founders had the honor of presenting at the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge awards ceremony hosted at Harvard University. The video presentation for the event can be seen here.

Throughout August the organization members were also working extensively on their projects listed in Section II. Note that not all of the projects within the organization have been listed in Section II.

Finally, in August, the AIYGO began to set up its core undergraduate division, where its members will be establishing university circles at Cambridge University, MIT, Columbia, Harvard, UPenn, the University of Oxford, and Stanford.

You’re on an island inhabited by two kinds of people: truth-tellers, who always tell the truth, and liars, who always lie. You need directions; but first, you need to determine whom you can trust.

You meet three residents, Ari, Bolo, and Cala:

Ari: Bolo is a truth-teller.

Bolo: There are more truth-tellers than liars among the three of us.

Cala: At least one of the three of us is a liar.

Just from their statements alone (which may be true or false), can you determine which of them are telling the truth?

AIYGO recently hosted mathematician and game designer Daniel Rosiak, author of Sheaf Theory through Examples, for a presentation on Logic Islands: Deduction Game, a mobile game built around hundreds of handcrafted logic challenges like this one, with ambitions to become “the app for logic in all its glory.”

As you go from island to island, the puzzles begin with approachable truth-teller-and-liar problems (like above) before developing into mind-bending challenges involving incomplete information, strategic questioning, nested beliefs, and reasoning about what others can know. In some challenges, you must determine exactly which question to ask and to whom to ask it.

Without ever feeling like a textbook, Logic Islands also doubles as a hands-on introduction to logic itself. It essentially begins with propositional reasoning and gradually leads players through predicate logic and beyond, into modal and epistemic questions about what different agents know, believe, and can infer.

In an age when AI systems can produce fluent, confident answers almost instantly, it matters more than ever to be able to distinguish what is genuinely supported by the available information from what merely sounds plausible. In such an age, knowing logic will be a superpower. Logic Islands makes the discipline of logic and challenging and intuitive as possible.

Daniel is looking forward to interacting more with the AIYGO community, and we hope to hold an organization-wide Logic Islands Challenge in early 2027. Players will compete to reason through a handpicked set of island puzzles as efficiently as possible. So download the game and come ready to compete!

Play Logic Islands: Deduction Game on iOS or Android:

logicislands.com