The story.
F. Aamir Ali is a student builder and founder from Surrey, British Columbia. He built and deployed an AI assistant inside his 1,500-student high school, a system his principal recognized as the first of its kind built by a student there, and he co-founded the first youth AI summit in Surrey and leads it as its Lead Organizer, bringing about 70 students from 14 schools together to build AI in a single day. He also founded and leads his school's AI & Innovation Club.
The long version starts with FleetBot, a chatbot I built solo to answer the questions my 1,500-student school asks every day. I launched it to students in January 2026, then rebuilt it for staff on a physical terminal in the front office by April. Getting it deployed taught me the real lesson: shipping the code is the easy half. Privacy objections, approvals, and whether anyone actually uses the thing make up the hard half.
FleetBot also showed me how few students actually knew how to build with these tools, so I founded the AI & Innovation Club, where every meeting is hands-on and everyone leaves having shipped something that works. That work eventually grew into the Surrey Youth AI Summit, which I co-founded with Yuvraj Bains from Panorama Ridge and now lead as its Lead Organizer: the first youth AI summit in Surrey, where about 70 students from 14 schools spent a single day building real AI for local businesses.
What I keep coming back to is where AI meets real institutions: how you actually get a tool approved, integrated, and used inside a place that already has its own way of doing things. That's the problem I want to keep working on.
