AI Education at school level - First priority for India

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AI has become the main focus for education world over. Today there was a meeting arranged in USA for.See the video

On Thursday, September 4, 2025, US First Lady Melania Trump Hosted a Meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education

 

The creation of the White House AI Education task force was initiated by an April 2025 executive order signed by President Trump. The task force is responsible for implementing the "Presidential AI Challenge" for students in grades K-12. 

Key initiatives from the task force:

Presidential AI Challenge: This contest, launched in August 2025, encourages students to use AI to find solutions for issues in their communities. Winners will be invited to a White House event in the spring of 2026.

Partnerships and training: The task force seeks public-private partnerships to provide AI literacy resources for students and comprehensive training for educators. In July 2025, over 60 organizations, including major tech companies, pledged support for AI education initiatives.

Workforce preparedness: The broader effort is focused on developing an AI-ready workforce and equipping students with the skills needed for an AI-driven economy. 

Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force, chaired by First lady Melania Trump, which aims to foster AI awareness and education among K-12 students.

At the Education Department, Secretary Linda McMahon said that “any grant applications that come into the department that utilize AI will be more strongly considered for their grants,” adding that AI-related grants “might get some bonus points.”

The president’s executive order also emphasized the role of public-private partnerships in promoting AI among students, parents and educators. Over 100 private-sector organizations have so far pledged to be “AI Education and Workforce Champions,” and many of these organizations’ leaders attended Thursday’s event.

Signatories to the pledge, including corporations like Apple and Cisco plus industry groups like the Telecommunications Industry Association, commit to provide resources over the next four years for AI education via funding, educational materials, technology and tools, or other expertise and mentorship.

The leaders of three tech companies unveiled their pledge commitments at the meeting. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company aims to use its SkillsBuild platform to train 2 million Americans in “cutting-edge AI skills” over the next three years, while Code.org President Cameron Wilson said his organization aims to partner with 25 states over the next three years to help promote and build AI pathways in education. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pledged to spend $150 million out of a three-year, $1 billion education commitment specifically on AI education in the United States.

In conjunction with Thursday’s event, Microsoft announced that it will give all college students in the U.S. 12 free months of Microsoft 365 and will fund $1.25 million in prizes for what’s being called the Presidential AI Challenge.

Melania Trump announced the challenge last week, meant to encourage students and teachers to create AI-powered solutions to a variety of “national challenges.”

Sample project ideas range from creating AI tools to design healthier meals — a project floated for middle schoolers — to a high school-level proposal for students to develop AI assistants to better segment arteries in the human body. Projects will be judged on several criteria, including the project’s creativity and the use of tested and accurate AI.

The Presidential AI Challenge is something of an AI-themed reboot of the White House Science Fair, which ran for several years under President Barack Obama but was canceled by Donald Trump in 2017.

The White House focus on youth AI education comes as concerns continue to mount around AI’s potential for negatively affecting children and teens, a subject the first lady has previously highlighted. At the signing of the Take It Down Act in May, the first lady likened AI tools to addictive digital candy “engineered to have an impact on the cognitive development of our children.” But unlike candy, the first lady said, AI tools can “affect emotions and even be deadly” for youth.

For India, education must be given in local languages to reach all sections of the society as AI is going to affect the life, jobs, economy and all sectors.