{"id":224573,"date":"2026-06-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:25:12","slug":"elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary Students Backed by UT\u2019s AI Tennessee Advance to National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/\">Elementary Students Backed by UT\u2019s AI Tennessee Advance to National Competition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/\">https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 13:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.utk.edu\">news.utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A team of elementary students from Alcoa Intermediate School, guided by the AI Tennessee initiative, will represent Tennessee at the national finals of the Presidential AI Challenge in Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative involves faculty from multiple universities, including UT, the University of Memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, and Fisk University, providing workshops, training, and mentorship to K-12 students.<\/li>\n<li>The students developed a tool named the Homework Helper, which acts as a tutor and timekeeper to help students manage their homework and alleviate homework-related anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>AI Tennessee provided resources including curricular materials and practice sessions to help the students prepare for the national competition.<\/li>\n<li>The experience is beneficial for both the students, who are developing important skills, and for researchers like Emily Holtz, who is examining educational strategies involving AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elementary Students Backed by UT\u2019s AI Tennessee Advance to National Competition https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2026\/06\/02\/elementary-students-backed-by-uts-ai-tennessee-advance-to-national-competition\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Presidential_AI_Challenge_News_Feature.jpg.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224575,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224573\/revisions\/224575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}