Be the kind of clubmate you'd want to have.

Short, specific rules. The whole club — site, server, group chat, meetings — runs by these.

Our shared commitments

What every Grizzly here is signing up to be:

Be kind.
Different skill levels, different opinions about AI, different paces. Everyone learns better in a respectful room.
Be honest about your work.
Take credit for what's actually yours. Cite code, ideas, or prompts you borrowed. "I copy-pasted this from a tutorial and got it working" is a good answer. Pretending you wrote what you didn't isn't.
Be curious — for real.
Try things, get stuck, ask. The point of the club is to actually build, not to look smart. Asking a basic question is brave, not embarrassing.
Help when you can.
If you've passed lesson 3, you can help someone stuck on lesson 2. That's how the club gets stronger.
Respect different opinions about AI.
Some clubmates are excited about AI. Some are worried about it. Both are welcome here. No mocking either side.

Non-negotiable

These are non-negotiable. Crossing them puts the whole club at risk — so we treat them seriously.

No academic dishonesty.
This curriculum teaches you to build AI tools. Do NOT use it (or any AI tool) to do schoolwork that's supposed to be your own. If you're unsure whether an assignment allows AI help, ask the teacher first. The club will never help you violate your school's AI policy.
No targeting people.
No deepfakes, voice clones, harassment bots, impersonations, or pranks involving classmates, teachers, staff, or anyone in the school community. This is the fastest way to get the club shut down — and to get yourself in real trouble.
No harmful content.
Don't build tools that generate explicit, hateful, threatening, or dangerous content. If you're not sure whether something crosses the line, ask before you build it.
No leaked secrets.
Don't push API keys, tokens, passwords, or real personal data to public repos. (The curriculum teaches you how to keep these private — follow it.) If you slip up, rotate the key immediately and tell the club lead.
No bullying anyone for what they think about AI.
Worried students are not less serious. Excited students are not naive. Mocking either is a violation here.
No sharing private work outside the club.
What classmates build, share, or struggle with inside the club is theirs. Don't post screenshots, code, or chat content to the wider internet without permission.

If you see something that worries you, or something happens to you:

Reports stay confidential. We take them seriously. No one will get in trouble for raising a concern in good faith.

Most issues get handled by talking. If something keeps happening, or it's serious from the start, it follows this path:

First time, minor: a quiet conversation + a warning.
If it continues: temporary suspension from club activities.
Serious cases (harassment, harm, repeated violations, anything involving the broader school community): removal from the club and escalation to school administration as the school's policies require.

tl;dr

The simplest version of this whole document: be the kind of clubmate you'd want to have.

— The Grizzly AI Club