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Building on the momentum of our inaugural year, we are thrilled to announce an expanded program offering for the 2026–27 season featuring five core tracks: AIYA Autonomy: Essential AI literacy and foundational cognitive agency. AIYA Forge: Building, engineering, and prototyping with AI tools. AIYA Finance: Leveraging AI for market research, quantitative modeling, and strategic execution. AIYA Polis: Analyzing AI's impact on democracy, media, governance, and public discourse.

The inaugural AIYA Impact Symposium showcased innovative student projects across the domains of healthcare, environmental science, infrastructure, education, and autonomous AI systems, spanning diverse applications that range from clinical measurement apps and automated industrial inspection systems to live environmental data platforms, educational workshops, health management tools, and multi-agent research frameworks. Representing schools across the U.S., Kuwait, and Austra

The Alchemist Challenge For the 2025–2026 AIYA Global AI Hackathon, we presented student teams with The Alchemist Challenge. As part of the exercise, participants conducted market research, submitted formal investment theses, and navigated live market shifts with a single optional opportunity to rebalance their allocations mid-week. A Framework for Market Predictions and Portfolio Allocation The primary purpose of The Alchemist Challenge was to provide students with a structu

With the successful launch of AIYA and the close of our inaugural 2025–26 season across 3 continents, we are excited to share the results and key findings of our flagship events, starting with AIYA Literacy Week 2025-26. Inside Literacy Week 2025–26: Confronting Three Core Challenges of AI Over 100 students participated in our inaugural AIYA Literacy Week across six participating school chapters: Al-Bayan Bilingual School (Kuwait) Archer School for Girls (USA) Brentwood Scho

As we close the inaugural 2025–26 AIYA Season, we look back with immense gratitude for what our community has built together and genuine pride in how far the AIYA Network has come. Throughout AIYA Literacy Week, the AIYA Global AI Hackathon, and the AIYA Impact Symposium, students across three continents showed that they are ready to engage with AI critically, responsibly, creatively, and effectively. None of this would have been possible without the collective commitment of

Hello World! This is the AI Youth Alliance (AIYA), and we are thrilled to officially introduce ourselves!