Winners

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.