How a high school student’s machine learning project led to real-world impact and a $250,000 prize High School Student Uses AI to Analyze NASA Telescope Data Matteo Paz didn’t have access to a lab or telescope. What he had was curiosity, Python, and a public NASA dataset. While most researchers were focused on tracking asteroids, Matteo trained an AI model called VARNet  to detect everything else : variable stars, black holes, cosmic flickers that had gone unnoticed. The resu

High schoolers are building powerful AI projects from wildfire detection to mental health tools. Here's how students are learning to solve real problems with machine learning and data. Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing industries; it’s changing what teenagers can do before they even apply to college. In schools, after-school programs, and even bedrooms turned makeshift labs, high schoolers are building AI tools to tackle problems that are real, messy, and sometimes

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A few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was science fiction. Today, it’s powering self-driving cars, transforming healthcare, and...