The Deep View: The First Lady and the acumen of children

EDUCATION
Melania Trump wants kids to solve America’s AI talent problem
America’s AI future just got placed in the hands of kindergarteners. First Lady Melania Trump Yesterday launched the Presidential AI Challenge, a nationwide competition asking K-12 students to use AI tools to solve community problems.
The contest offers $10,000 prizes to winning teams and stems from an executive order President Trump signed in April, directing federal agencies to advance AI education for American youth. Students work with adult mentors to tackle local challenges — from improving school resources to addressing environmental issues.
This isn’t just feel-good civic engagement. Melania Trump created an AI-powered audiobook of her memoir, utilizing technology to replicate her own voice, thereby gaining firsthand experience with the tools she’s asking students to master. She also championed the Take It Down Act, targeting AI-generated deepfakes and exploitation.
While tech giants pour billions into research, the White House Task Force on AI Education is focused on building the workforce that will actually deploy these systems across every sector.
Registration opened Yesterday with submissions due January 20, 2026. Teams must include adult supervisors and can choose from three tracks: proposing AI solutions, building functional prototypes, or developing teaching methods for educators.
Winners get cash prizes plus potential White House showcase opportunities. All participants receive Presidential certificates of participation. Projects must include 500-word narratives plus demonstrations or posters. Virtual office hours provide guidance throughout the process
China invests heavily in AI education while American schools still struggle with basic computer literacy. Michael Kratsios from the White House Office of Science and Technology emphasized the challenge prepares students for an “AI-assisted workforce” — not someday, but within years.
The initiative coincides with America’s 250th anniversary, positioning AI literacy as a patriotic duty. Whether elementary students can actually deliver breakthrough solutions remains to be seen, but Washington clearly believes the alternative — falling behind in the global AI race — is worse.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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