{"id":1013811,"date":"2026-06-11T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013811"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:43:43","slug":"indian-american-school-students-among-presidential-ai-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/indian-american-school-students-among-presidential-ai-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American school students among Presidential AI award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cFriendzone Chatbot Bullying Prevention App\u201d. 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 \u201cSkillup\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cFriendzone Chatbot Bullying Prevention App\u201d. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013846,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013811\/revisions\/1013846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}