Indian American school students among Presidential AI award winners
A chatbot to prevent bullying, developed by a group largely comprising Indian-American students, won the first Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge National Champion Awards given away by First Lady Melania Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
A five-member community from Aldie, Virginia, comprising Aarna Jaiswal, Eshani Khatri, Riva Madda, Samhitha Pinnamareddy and Sanuli Rathnayake won the Award in the Elementary School Track 2 category for developing the “Friendzone Chatbot Bullying Prevention App”. A group of students from NorthStar Middle School in Sammamish, Washington, comprising Viha Iyer, Arya Pratap and Shrimayi Shetty, won the Middle School Track 1 category for their project “Skillup”.
