GenAI Intern Project Showcase

In Spring 2026, UITS Student Outreach launched the GenAI Student Intern Program, with the goal of facilitating for-students-by-students projects that addressed real-world challenges in higher education. Out of a pool of 418 applicants across the entire Indiana University system, 68 students were chosen and divided into 16 teams.

These students were a diverse mix of undergraduate and graduate students from all years and majors, ranging from anthropology to business to computer science. Their projects helped connect students to IU resources, provide effective and ethical methods of studying and time management, simulate real-world business problems, and even assist in finding healthy food options.

Note: To interact with mini-GPT projects, you must be signed into the Indiana University ChatGPT Edu Workspace. Project overview pages are available to all site visitors.

Projects

Academic Planner Pro

Academic Planner Pro is an AI powered Assignment Planner designed for undergraduate college students managing multiple courses while balancing responsibilities such as jobs, extracurriculars, and exams.

Academic Text Helper

The Academic Text Helper is an AI tool that assists students in approaching and comprehending complex or dense academic texts. Using Socratic questioning and providing supplemental information, the Academic Text Helper is a jumping-off point for students to explore these texts more fully and confidently.

AI Learning Coach

The AI Learning Coach is an integrity-first AI tutor designed for college students who want to use generative AI to support their learning without risking academic misconduct. The AI Learning Coach addresses this problem by grounding itself in the student's uploaded course syllabus and acting as a Socratic tutor and guiding students through problems with clarifying questions, step-by-step breakdowns, and concept explanations rather than handing over final answers

Ctrl-Alt-AI

Ctrl-Alt-AI is a Custom GPT that helps college students break assignments into manageable steps and build schedules and study materials. Designed with first and second-year students in mind but useful for all years, Ctrl Alt AI is built around IU's academic integrity standards to help work with you instead of for you.

IU Career Branding Copilot

The IU Career Branding Copilot is designed for undergraduate juniors and seniors who have the skills and experiences to succeed but struggle to put their value into words. Through a structured, multi-phase reflection process, the tool guides students in identifying their unique strengths, values, and contributions, then helps them shape those insights into a practical Brand Starter Kit, including a brand statement, elevator pitch, LinkedIn content, and networking conversation starters.

IU Pathways Career Advisor

The IU Pathways Career Advisor is a conversational AI tool designed for IU students early in their academic journey to explore majors, careers, and extracurricular activities relevant to their interests and goals.

IU Research Mapping Assistant

The IU Research Mapping Assistant is a custom GPT designed to help Indiana University students discover research labs and faculty that align with their academic interests. The tool surfaces relevant professors and labs, and generates a personalized cold email draft the student can send directly to a faculty member they want to work with.

JagTrack Event Impact Simulator

JagTrack is a student-focused event impact simulator and syllabus extractor designed to help students understand how social events may affect their coursework. The tool helps students compare an upcoming event against their current academic week, class workload, syllabus deadlines, assignment progress, and personal goals. Students can manually enter class information or upload a PDF or DOCX syllabus, and the simulator extracts likely upcoming quizzes, exams, projects, assignments, due dates, and workload details.

KelleyAI

KelleyAI is an academic and career advising assistant for Finance majors. It can help you plan courses, explore majors and finance career paths, compare clubs and workshops, prepare for internships, draft networking messages, and turn scattered Kelley/IU information into clear next steps.

Kelley Business Readiness Platform

The Kelley Business Readiness Platform is built for undergraduate business students who learn strong frameworks and theories in the classroom but get limited practice applying them in the real world, where decisions are messy, information is incomplete, and there is rarely a clean right answer. This platform provides students with real-time, real-world scenarios that dynamically change based on user input as well as personalized feedback on performance and suggestions for future practice and improvement. *Note - due to availability of API credits, the Kelley Business Readiness Platform is not available for public use at this time.

Meal Planner

Meal Planner targets college students who are living on their own for the first time, without a meal plan on a tight budget. We are targeting students who cook and shop for meals themselves while living on their own. Our artifact is unique to receive customized meal recommendations based on budget, diet restrictions or preferences, and balanced nutritional information. It will even identify nutritional gaps in the grocery list and suggestions to fill the gaps.

OneDrive Course Organizer

The OneDrive Course Organizer is a student-focused web app designed to help students create a faster and more consistent course organization system in Microsoft OneDrive. Instead of manually creating folders, subfolders, outlines, and starter pages files for every course each semester, users sign in with Microsoft, upload course syllabi, and allow the app to automatically generate a structured semester workspace.

Oris

Our project, Oris, is an AI based tool designed to help students practice for oral exams, presentations, and interviews. It is aimed at undergraduate students who want to improve their speaking and communication skills in a structured way.

PARE (Personalized Academic Resource Engine)

PARE (Personalized Academic Resource Engine) is a personalized learning tutor for students with different learning styles and non-traditional schedules that typically do not have access to professors or tutors during hours of availability. Not all students learn in the traditional lecture format. Some might be kinesthetic, multi-modal, and even visual learners. Using PARE allows students to understand their course material in a way that fits their learning preferences in their own time. PARE’s unique customizable approach makes it easier for students to use AI in a way that is convenient but promotes academic improvement and success.

Student Success Assistant

The Student Success Assistant is primarily for for first-year and early-college students at IU-Indianapolis. These students are often navigating high-pressure deadlines while simultaneously learning the university's digital sources. Our tool is specifically designed for those who may not yet be familiar with the expensive professional software provided through their tuition.

StudyBuddy

StudyBuddy is an AI-powered test tutor and study assistant designed for first-year undergraduate students who struggle with academic stress, time management, and organizing effective study routines. StudyBuddy addresses this problem by generating personalized study plans, providing AI-powered tutoring support, creating quizzes for self-assessment, and adapting schedules based on student progress and missed tasks.