How to receive venture funding for a start up in high school

My friends and I have started an AI pattern recognition start up and are interested in pitching our idea to local VCs in our area. We're in a big tech city so how would it be best to seek venture funding? Would emailing a couple hundred VCs with an attached timeline/business plan be enough or should I try to go to their office with business cards?

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