First lady announces winners in Presidential AI challenge – Deseret News
First lady announces winners in Presidential AI challenge – Deseret News
Publish Date: 2026-06-09 15:28:00
Source Domain: www.deseret.com
- First Lady Melania Trump announced the winners of the 2026 Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge, highlighting the innovative ideas of young students representing the future of the nation.
- The winners included two elementary school groups creating an AI Homework Helper and a bullying prevention chatbot, middle school students developing AI for urban blight detection, and high school students creating AI models for criminal investigations and navigation for those with visual impairments.
- Over 20,000 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and schools in 10 countries participated, showing the global reach of the competition.
- The initiative is part of the Trump administration’s effort to spotlight innovation, supported by President Trump’s executive order on AI education in April 2025.
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios emphasized the transformative potential of AI and its creative applications, aiming to demystify this powerful technology for all young Americans.
