COLUMBUS – Hunt Intermediate School has won the Presidential AI Challenge 2026 State Championship.
In the challenge, students, educators, mentors and community teams identify a problem in their community and develop artificial intelligence-powered solutions to solve it.
Sixth-graders Genesis Hill, Ryleigh Kyles, Landon Spraggin and Tyzir Turner created a project called AVD Watchout on a team supervised by teacher Johnathan Green and Principal Mone Ewing-Johnson.
“Student scholars don’t just compete,” Ewing-Johnson said. “They create, innovate and rise to solve real-world problems. Winning the Presidential AI Challenge is not just a victory; it’s proof that young minds, when empowered, can lead the future of intelligence, equity and change. Opportunity and access will always be the motivation for real student experiences at Hunt Intermediate.”
Regional winners will be announced later this month, and national champions will be awarded in June.
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