We don't run lectures. We run projects, competitions, and research — in public.
Reinforce is where students at SST go to build the thing, not just read about it.
Members join a track, form a small group around a real goal, and ship. Some of us climb Kaggle leaderboards. Some of us take a paper apart and rebuild it. Some of us put a product in front of actual users. All of it ends up in this organisation, publicly, with your name on the commits.
If you are a first-year with no idea where to start — that is the normal starting point. Nobody here began knowing this stuff.
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Kaggle Real competitions, real leaderboards, real deadlines. You learn by being scored against thousands of other people, every day, on a problem nobody has solved for you. Beginner competitions to start. Featured competitions when you're ready. |
Build and ship Take something from idea to deployed. Users, bugs, feedback, the parts of engineering that only show up once real people touch your work. The platform this club runs on was built this way. |
Read, reproduce, extend Pick a paper. Reproduce it. Find where it breaks. Write up what you learned. The skill that separates "I used a model" from "I understand this model." |
Student Project Groups (SPGs) — the unit of work here
An SPG is a small team formed around one concrete goal, in one track. You register it, you get a project channel, and you report progress on a fixed cadence.
Registering gives you:
- A dedicated space to work in
- Access to request club resources — compute, GPU time, API credits, mentorship
- Your progress on record, which is what the club points to when it vouches for you
You register an SPG in the Discord server. It takes about two minutes.
The Idea Jar — for when you want to build but don't know what
Anyone can drop a project idea into the Idea Jar, whether or not they intend to build it themselves. Each entry names the track, the concept, and what someone would learn by building it.
If you want a project, take one out. If you have an idea you'll never get to, put it in.
YUVI — the club's Discord bot
YUVI handles verification, roles, SPG registration, resource requests, support tickets, and the Idea Jar. It is written and maintained by club members, and it shares a database with the club website — so what you file in Discord shows up on your dashboard.
It is also one of the easiest places to make your first contribution. See
YUVI.
Verification — why we ask for your college email
Members sign in with their @sst.scaler.com Google account, which links to their
Discord identity. That keeps the server to actual SST students and lets us attach
your work to you without anyone typing a name into a form.
Nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf, and the club stores your email, your name, and the links you choose to add. That's it.
flowchart LR
A["👥 Members"] --> B["💬 Discord<br/>SPGs · tickets · ideas"]
A --> C["🌐 Website<br/>profile · projects · events"]
B <--> D[("🗄️ Shared database")]
C <--> D
D --> E["📋 Your record<br/>projects · contributions"]
style A fill:#212121,stroke:#E5B731,stroke-width:2px,color:#fff
style B fill:#212121,stroke:#31343A,color:#fff
style C fill:#212121,stroke:#31343A,color:#fff
style D fill:#E5B731,stroke:#E5B731,color:#212121
style E fill:#212121,stroke:#E5B731,stroke-width:2px,color:#fff
One identity, two front doors. File something in Discord, see it on the website.
| Repository | What it is | Good first issue? |
|---|---|---|
| Reinforce-Student-Dashboard | The club website, member dashboard, and API | ✅ Frontend, actively growing |
| YUVI | Discord bot — verification, tickets, SPGs | ✅ Self-contained features |
| Reinforce_Club-SST | Member project archive | ✅ Add your own project |
Both active repositories ship with a CONTRIBUTING.md that tells you exactly when a
change needs a pull request and when you can push straight to main. Read it before
your first change — it's short.
You do not need permission, a background, or a plan.
- Join the Discord and verify with your SST email
- Pick a track — you are not locked in, and you can be in more than one
- Find or form an SPG, or take an idea out of the Idea Jar
- Ship something small. A fixed typo in one of these repos is a real contribution and a real commit under your name
The first contribution is the hard one. Everything after it is easier.
Reinforce · Scaler School of Technology
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