# Thank you ML Club! Date: 2025-08-19 > "What I cannot create, I do not understand" > > --- Richard Feynman. This post is long overdue, but better late than never! As I graduate high school and move on to college, I wanted to take a moment to wrap up this chapter of my ML journey. (For first-time visitors: I founded a Machine Learning Club at my high school, where I taught weekly lectures to over 60 students. This blog became the home for that content.) The ML Club was born out of a simple belief: **the best way to learn is to teach.** When you challenge yourself not just to understand a concept, but to explain it clearly to others, you gain a much deeper appreciation for the subject. Thanks to the club---and to its members, whose unwavering enthusiasm I am so grateful for---I grew from being merely curious about ML to wanting to dedicate my future to it. Without the club, I wouldn’t have the same passion and appreciation for the field that I carry today. Experience in ML Club opened up so many other opportunities. I had the wonderful opportunity to teach (along with some amazing coaches) these AI lectures to the [NorthSouth Foundation](https://www.northsouth.org) Learning Journey Program, reaching over 120 students and raised funds for 50 college scholarships in India. ![Group photo of the 2024-25 ML Club members and coaches](/assets/images/2025/08/club_photo.jpeg){: width="500"}
ML Club 2024-25 club photo
> All of the ML Club videos are now all compiled in chronological order in the [**Videos**](/videos) tab on the sidebar. {: .prompt-tip } I also had the chance to share AI concepts with other organizations—speaking at [Ciencia En Tus Manos](https://www.cienciaentusmanos.com), an initiative based in Puerto Rico, and [presenting](/2024/03/22/presenting-at-maryland-foreign-language-association-mfla-conference/) twice with my Spanish teacher at the [Maryland Foreign Language Association Conference](https://www.mflamd.org/). None of this would have been possible without the **incredible support of my fellow ML Club members.** And of course, a heartfelt thank you to my CS teachers, **Mr. Estep and Mr. Khetarpal,** for their guidance and encouragement as club sponsors and mentors. ML Club isn't going away---it's being continued by three amazing captains this upcoming year, and I have full confidence that it will be awesome! ### What's Next? Looking ahead, I hope to share more posts on this blog—especially interactive articles like my [perceptron visualization](/2024/01/05/visualizing-the-perceptron-learning-algorithm/) and [Indian Carnatic Music exploration](/posts/raga-interactive/). Creating these has been especially rewarding, as they take full advantage of the web as a medium for learning. I also plan to keep teaching ML in new ways, including posting videos here on the blog. The details are still in the works, but stay tuned---there’s much more ML content to come, and I can’t wait to keep learning by teaching. Onward! ``` -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------+#-------------------------------------------------------------- ------------+--------------###-------------------------------------------------------------- -------------+-------------#---+------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------#--------+------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------#####+--+-----###+----------------------------.---------------------- -----------------------########+-----#####--+------------------..-..------------------------ -----------------------#########-----#####---#---------.....-------------------------------- -----------------------#########-----#####---##-.------------------------------------------- -----------------------#########-----#####---###-------------------------------------------- ----------------------+#########-----#####---####------------------------------------------- ----------------------##########-----#####---####+-.---------------------------------------- ----------------...---##########-----#####---#####------------------------------------------ --------...----------###########----######---######----------------------------------------- --------------------############+---######---#######---------------------------------------- ------------------##############+--#######---########--------------------------------------- --------------------------------+-########---#########-------------------------------------- --------------------------------+------###---###-------------------------------------------- --------------------------------+------|--------------*+#----------------------------------- --------------------+##########+#++#---------####-+###-------------------------------------- ----------------------#############################--.....---------------------------------- -----------------------###########################.-.....----------------------------------- -------------------------++++++++++++++++++++++++-......------------------------------------ ```