Overview
- The White House awards ceremony, which took place Tuesday, June 9, recognized six student national champion teams and educator winners and presented each student team with a Presidential certificate, cloud computing credits, and a $10,000 prize.
- The year-long competition drew more than 20,000 student participants from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Department of Defense schools in 10 countries, with entrants producing more than 2,500 compliant projects.
- Winning projects spanned elementary to high school levels and used tools such as large language models, neural networks, computer vision, robotics, and decision trees to build apps or sites addressing problems like bullying prevention, homework help, urban blight detection, criminal-investigation support, and navigation for the visually impaired.
- The challenge was launched under President Trump’s April 2025 executive order establishing an AI education task force, and officials including OSTP Director Michael Kratsios attended the ceremony to underscore federal support for funding, training, and teacher resources.
- The White House framed the event as the opening phase of a broader AI education agenda that links early technical training to workforce development and child-safety efforts such as the TAKE IT DOWN Act, and officials say they will continue expanding AI literacy and classroom support.