The U.S. Department of Education announced the 10 winning teams of the Your AI Horizons Challenge, celebrating dedicated teachers and their innovative students from schools all across the country. Winning teams received $5,000 each.

Printer Guardian AI
Belfry High School | Belfry, Kentucky
A preventive-maintenance tool analyzing usage hours, failed prints, temperature trends, and filament usage to identify early warning signs in school 3D printers. This system provides teachers and students with real-time insights, reduces downtime, extends equipment lifespan, and helps schools schedule service before breakdowns interrupt learning.

AI Smart Quality Control Inspector
Creek Wood High School | Charlotte, Tennessee
An AI-powered inspection robot that identifies manufacturing defects while explaining its decision-making process through real-time visual feedback. This transparent system transforms AI from a threatening replacement into a trusted teaching tool, empowering workers to collaborate with technology through confidence and understanding.

Planting with Precision
Kealakehe High School | Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
An AI solution generating plant bed layouts, plant pairings, and crop rotations based on weather, environment, crop variety, and growth histories. AI-recommended intelligent crop rotations and intercropping strategies help maintain soil fertility, reduce pests, minimize environmental footprints, and reimagine agriculture as a proactive system that strengthens soil health and promotes long-term growth.

(H-RAIN)—Homelessness Resource AI Network
Legacy High School | Wichita Falls, Texas
An active, data-driven ecosystem integrating smart beds, smart shelves, wearable bracelets, and community kiosks to deliver live updates across shelters and donors. This system enables individuals to locate resources, shelters to track supplies, donors to meet urgent needs, and emergency services to respond efficiently through real-time coordination.

AI-enhanced financial forecasting
Montgomery Blair High School | Silver Spring, Maryland
An AI model specializing in finance to process financial data and create economic predictions more efficiently than traditional methods. This solution reduces the time and cost of making accurate forecasts by streamlining labor-intensive tasks of gathering, processing, and building predictive models in finance.

AI Crop Monitoring to Guide Sustainable Farming Practices
Morris County School of Technology| Denville, New Jersey
An AI-powered crop monitoring solution using drone-captured imagery to enable early detection of plant stress before widespread symptoms appear. Continuous monitoring provides accurate, real-time assessment of crop conditions, allowing farmers to intervene only when necessary and minimize chemical usage while reducing avoidable yield loss.

YourT.E.A.M—Therapeutic Enhanced AI Monitor
Newburgh Free Academy P-TECH | Newburgh, New York
An AI-driven system leveraging wearable technology and smart devices to collect precise, objective rehabilitation data 24/7 and deliver real-time patient coaching. It automatically alerts physical therapists to critical changes, enhancing patient accountability, improving safety, and boosting overall treatment efficacy.

Reactive AI for the National Defense Cyber Alliance
New Century Technology High School | Huntsville, Alabama
An AI system that recognizes user input and categorizes user data from the National Defense Cyber Alliance to create new user profiles, generate verification emails, and create Microsoft 365 accounts using verified credentials. This solution improves the speed and accuracy of account creation requests by replacing work done by student interns with automated AI processing.

LegallySimple
Pattonville Senior High School | Maryland Heights, Missouri
An AI tool that translates complex legal terms into plain language and summarizes legal documents while highlighting key information. By focusing on effective communication, this solution makes the legal process faster and less stressful for lawyers and their clients.

Beam-forming microphones for rescues
Shaker High School | Latham, New York
A beamforming rescue device using microphones and AI to create a narrow, steerable audio beam that filters out background noise and isolates human or animal sounds. The solution allows firefighters to pinpoint a person’s location with extreme accuracy through walls and debris, turning slow searches into rapid, targeted rescues.
