01What is my job?

The advisor's job will be to exist, sign one page, and be in the room. The league runs everything else.

You would not coach, teach the material, or manage a roster, and you do not need to know anything about AI. The training, the schedule, the challenges and the judging are the league's job. A signature is what would make a group of students a chapter, and your presence is what makes an event a school activity.

Nothing is being asked of you today. The form that signature goes on is still being reviewed, so this memo describes the commitment you would be taking on, not one you can take on this week.

02How much time?

The shape is meant to stay small: one signature, presence at any sanctioned event your students enter, and nothing else. Practices are scheduled and run by the students. A chapter that never enters a sanctioned event would ask nothing of you beyond the signature.

This memo will state a measured hour figure once a season has actually run, rather than an adjective now. If it ever asks more than the shape above, that is something to report back, not a calendar problem for you to absorb.

03What does it cost the school?

Nothing, until a team enters a sanctioned event. Starting a chapter costs nothing. If your students later want to enter a sanctioned event, that entry costs from $250, is typically fundraised by the chapter against a date and a reason, and requires the school's ratification at that point, not now. That fee pays for the room, the materials and the running of the event, and the league does not waive it. Nothing else is required to compete: no subscription, no software, no equipment.

04Is this safe? Who is liable?

The honest answer starts with what the league is not. As of today it is an unincorporated association. It carries no insurance, and it is neither a 501(c)(3) nor an LLC. It intends to incorporate with an adult officer of record, and this memo is amended whenever that changes.

Nothing about signing this form asks you to rely on any of that. A chapter, by itself, is a school club: free, no money, no events, no travel. The liability questions arrive only if your students later choose to enter a sanctioned event, and the rules do not let that moment be improvised: no sanctioned event may run until the league has a legal entity, insurance appropriate to the event, and named adult officers. If those do not exist, there is no sanctioned event to enter.

On sponsors: events may be sponsored and sponsors may be visible, as at any robotics or debate competition. No sponsor can name an event, shape a rule, choose a judge, decide an award, or receive anything about your students.

05Who runs it?

The founder is a fifteen-year-old student. We are telling you that first because you would find out anyway, and a teacher who discovers it later feels handled, while a teacher who is told up front can judge it for what it is: a league built by the people it assesses, with adults where adults are structurally required. Before any sanctioned event can run, adult officers of record must exist by rule, and this memo will list them by name when they do.

One more rule worth knowing: if the league ever does business with a company owned by one of its officers, that arrangement must be disclosed on the site, priced at arm's length, and open to rival providers. No such arrangement exists today.

06What if it doesn't work out?

Dissolving a chapter is one email. No penalty, no notice period, no hard feelings.

If the students drift, the club dies, or the fit is wrong, the chapter closes the day you say so. Nothing follows you or the school for having tried.

07What do my students actually get?

A defense record: an individual, portable, cumulative record of defenses survived, career honesty score, red-team accuracy, and verification accuracy. In a world where any student can produce polished work with AI, the scarce credential is proof that a student can account for their work under live questioning. That is the thing this league measures, and your students keep it across teams, schools, and seasons. A student who never wins anything still graduates with a number that means something.

08What do I do next?

There is nothing to sign yet. The founding form is being reviewed before it goes in front of any school, so no paperwork is being asked of you today. For now a student registers the chapter on the site, and the league comes back to the two of you once the paperwork is ready.

Questions a form cannot answer are worth sending. They get answered publicly rather than privately, so the next teacher gets the same answer.