For students
You are not just doing homework. You are learning how to read the city, find demand, understand supply, and connect people to opportunity.
GVSU TRIO Upward Bound
Summer Program Resource Library
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Become The Plug Program · ub.autonateai.com
Learn how money, people, and opportunities move through your city.
This is the free resource library for the GVSU TRIO Upward Bound summer experience powered by AutoNateAI. Students use this page to watch the daily video, download the notes, complete the assignments, and build the mindset of becoming the plug: the person who understands demand, traces supply, connects partners, and helps real programs happen.
Demand
Spot what people need and what leaders are discussing.
Supply
Trace the money, departments, vendors, and programs.
The Plug
Connect local businesses to opportunities that already exist.
How to use this page
Watch the daily video first so the class theme clicks before you start working.
Download the notes and keep them open while your team researches.
Use the assignments to turn research into a real Opportunity Report.
Share the day link with classmates, mentors, or partner orgs so they see the work in real time.
Today · June 26
TRIO Olympics: AI Game Jam
Build a Zelda-like browser game in Replit. Use ChatGPT or Gemini to plan the game, create the AI handoff, and refine your prompts. Then use Replit AI to build, test, publish, and let classmates play.
Think
ChatGPT / Gemini
Build
Replit AI
Add Legos
HTML + CSS + JS + Phaser / Three / p5
For partners
This is a live look at a youth innovation program that turns public data, AI workflows, and local networks into practical community ideas.
For the program
Every day builds toward students becoming opportunity brokers who can explain the problem, map the money, and assemble the partnership.
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14 resources posted
NotesAvailable
Opportunity Hunting 101
Professional class notes covering funded problems, budgets, departments, AI research, and opportunity ecosystems.
HomeworkAvailable
Opportunity Report
Student homework packet for department discovery, funded problem analysis, partner mapping, and program design.
PrepAvailable
Follow The Money
Prep notes on how public demand, departments, federal funding, local programs, vendors, LinkedIn, and partnership networks connect.
NotesAvailable
Follow The Money Review
Post-class review covering the FigJam budget flow, city council decisions, department tables, team roles, Google Docs, Stitch prototypes, and tomorrow's development path.
HomeworkAvailable
Day 2 Homework
Review today's class notes and prepare for tomorrow's Chamber directory research, program design, and Lovable.dev software build workflow.
PrepAvailable
Chamber Partners To Software
Prep notes for adding Chamber directory suppliers, brokering partner ROI, architecting a program, and prompting ChatGPT, Stitch, and Lovable.dev.
NotesAvailable
Day 3 FigJam Board
Live class board showing the budget-to-department flow, city council decision path, department directors, staff, programs, projects, and opportunity mapping.
PrepAvailable
Program Blueprint To App Build
Prep notes and prompts for expanding a win-win-win program, designing digital activities, moving into Stitch, and building with Base44.
NotesAvailable
Base44 Build And Iterate
Class notes and prompts for exporting a Stitch design, building a Base44 app with auth, testing user flows, and refining the program through iteration.
PrepAvailable
Publish, Prompt, And Refine
Prep notes for publishing Base44 apps, choosing a Base44 subdomain, using screenshots and ChatGPT to refine the flow, and turning the app into a funding-ready opportunity proposal.
HomeworkAvailable
Final Exam Review Homework
Homework guide for reviewing the full city-budget-to-published-app workflow before tomorrow's final exam.
HomeworkAvailable
Final Exam
The 45-question final exam unlocks Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM ET on this page.
NotesAvailable
TRIO Olympics Game Jam
Competition guide with theme, rules, timeline, judging rubric, digital-legos explanation, starter prompts, and arcade playtest flow.
HomeworkAvailable
AI Game Prompt Repo
Copy-ready prompts for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Replit AI to plan, hand off, build, debug, polish, and present a Zelda-like TRIO game.
Program Materials
Day 1 · June 16
Opportunity Hunting
PrepComing Soon
Pre-Class Notes
Posted before class when a prep handout is available.
Not posted yet
NotesAvailable
Opportunity Hunting 101
Professional class notes covering funded problems, budgets, departments, AI research, and opportunity ecosystems.
HomeworkAvailable
Opportunity Report
Student homework packet for department discovery, funded problem analysis, partner mapping, and program design.
Day 2 · June 17
Follow The Money
PrepAvailable
Follow The Money
Prep notes on how public demand, departments, federal funding, local programs, vendors, LinkedIn, and partnership networks connect.
NotesAvailable
Follow The Money Review
Post-class review covering the FigJam budget flow, city council decisions, department tables, team roles, Google Docs, Stitch prototypes, and tomorrow's development path.
HomeworkAvailable
Day 2 Homework
Review today's class notes and prepare for tomorrow's Chamber directory research, program design, and Lovable.dev software build workflow.
Day 3 · June 18
Chamber Partners To Software
PrepAvailable
Chamber Partners To Software
Prep notes for adding Chamber directory suppliers, brokering partner ROI, architecting a program, and prompting ChatGPT, Stitch, and Lovable.dev.
NotesAvailable
Day 3 FigJam Board
Live class board showing the budget-to-department flow, city council decision path, department directors, staff, programs, projects, and opportunity mapping.
HomeworkComing Soon
Assignment
Download will appear after the assignment is finalized.
Not posted yet
Weekend Quiz · 30 points
Weekend Checkpoint: Become The Plug
This checks what you picked up from Days 1-3: demand, budgets, city council, departments, Chamber supply, partnership ROI, prompting, Google Docs, Stitch, Lovable.dev, and becoming the plug.
Due Saturday, June 20 at 9:00 PM ET
Intro Wizard
Before you start, know what this quiz is testing.
This is not a memorization check. It is asking whether you can think through demand, money, departments, Chamber supply, partner ROI, team workflows, AI prompts, and useful software.
Read the system
Budgets, departments, staff, and meetings show where demand is becoming action.
Find the supply
Chamber members give you businesses, venues, services, and partners that can help.
Build the tool
Lovable.dev turns the program idea into software that makes the program easier to run.
Day 4 · June 22
Program Blueprint To App Build
PrepAvailable
Program Blueprint To App Build
Prep notes and prompts for expanding a win-win-win program, designing digital activities, moving into Stitch, and building with Base44.
NotesComing Soon
Class Notes
Download will appear after the notes are finalized.
Not posted yet
HomeworkComing Soon
Assignment
Download will appear after the assignment is finalized.
Not posted yet
Day 5 · June 23
Base44 Build And Iterate
PrepComing Soon
Pre-Class Notes
Posted before class when a prep handout is available.
Not posted yet
NotesAvailable
Base44 Build And Iterate
Class notes and prompts for exporting a Stitch design, building a Base44 app with auth, testing user flows, and refining the program through iteration.
HomeworkComing Soon
Assignment
Download will appear after the assignment is finalized.
Not posted yet
Day 6 · June 24
Publish, Prompt, And Refine
PrepAvailable
Publish, Prompt, And Refine
Prep notes for publishing Base44 apps, choosing a Base44 subdomain, using screenshots and ChatGPT to refine the flow, and turning the app into a funding-ready opportunity proposal.
NotesComing Soon
Class Notes
Download will appear after the notes are finalized.
Not posted yet
HomeworkAvailable
Final Exam Review Homework
Homework guide for reviewing the full city-budget-to-published-app workflow before tomorrow's final exam.
Day 7 · June 25
Final Exam And Opportunity Proposal Review
PrepComing Soon
Pre-Class Notes
Check this page before class.
Not posted yet
HomeworkAvailable
Final Exam
The 45-question final exam unlocks Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM ET on this page.
NotesComing Soon
Class Notes
Download will appear after the notes are finalized.
Not posted yet
Final Exam · 45 points
Final Exam: From Local Opportunity To Live App
This checks whether you can use the full course arc in real scenarios: budgets, departments, program research, Chamber partners, win-win-win design, Stitch, Base44, publishing, screenshots, AI tools, and opportunity proposals.
Opens Thursday, June 25 at 9:15 AM ET
Intro Wizard
Before you start, know what this exam is testing.
This is not a memorization check. It asks whether you can choose the right next move when a team is researching, prompting, designing, publishing, refining, or pitching.
Read the system
Budgets, departments, staff, and programs show where demand is becoming action.
Broker the offer
Chamber partners, activities, ROI, and data turn the idea into a program.
Publish and refine
Base44, screenshots, ChatGPT, and AI tools help improve the live software offer.
Day 8 · June 26
TRIO Olympics AI Game Jam
NotesAvailable
TRIO Olympics Game Jam
Competition guide with theme, rules, timeline, judging rubric, digital-legos explanation, starter prompts, and arcade playtest flow.
HomeworkAvailable
AI Game Prompt Repo
Copy-ready prompts for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Replit AI to plan, hand off, build, debug, polish, and present a Zelda-like TRIO game.
PrepComing Soon
Pre-Class Notes
Check this page before class.
Not posted yet
Day 9 · Coming soon
Materials will be posted here
PrepComing Soon
Pre-Class Notes
Check this page before class.
Not posted yet
NotesComing Soon
Class Notes
Download will appear after the notes are finalized.
Not posted yet
HomeworkComing Soon
Assignment
Download will appear after the assignment is finalized.
Not posted yet