Intel announced the global prize winners at its fourth-annual AI Global Impact Festival. The festival celebrates student-led AI projects from 25 countries that address community issues and align with UN Sustainable Development Goals using Intel technologies. Six out of roughly 100 finalists won Global Awards, and three received special AI for Accessibility awards for their innovative solutions to accessibility challenges. The festival also introduced new self-paced lessons on AI for Sports, AI for Space, and Entrepreneurship with AI, alongside existing courses on Generative AI and Responsible AI, with certificates available for all participants.
“I am inspired by the young technologists who understand and embrace AI as they lead the next generation of innovators working to uncover new opportunities that will drive positive global change. With these young minds at the forefront of future AI research and development, the potential impact of AI for good is limitless.”–Dawn Jones, vice president of Corporate Social Impact and president, Intel Foundation
Why It Matters: AI has the potential to tackle several global issues such as sustainable agriculture, climate change, education inequity and access to healthcare. Although AI technology can create positive change, there are also potential ethical risks associated with its development. Intel is committed to advancing digital readiness and promoting responsible AI skills for all. The company implements a comprehensive responsible AI approach to promote safe and trustworthy AI development and use. The festival provides an opportunity for students worldwide to understand how to build AI solutions to problems aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in an impactful and ethical way.
Intel is committed to responsibly bringing AI skills to all, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender or background. The festival provides a platform for future innovators to learn about, compete and celebrate the impact of AI innovations. Intel has committed to expanding digital readiness to reach 30 million people in 30,000 institutions in 30 countries. Currently, Intel has taught AI skills to more than 7 million people globally, in partnership with 29 national governments and 27,000 institutions. The festival is part of Intel’s RISE Goals and the company’s dedication to using tech as a force for good, underscoring its aim to make technology fully inclusive and to expand digital readiness worldwide.
The Winners: The following students were named Global Award winners for the AI Changemakers competition:
For the 13- to 17-year-old age group:
AUDEMY, U.S. – Crystal Yang: Audemy is a collection of audio-based games for blind students, powered by text-to-speech and speech recognition NLP models. This conversational interface game platform will have global and long-term impact in transforming education for blind students around the world.
CMA (Comprehensive Medical Assistant), Poland – Tomasz Kozłowski, Wojciech Czubak, Zofia Remi: CMA is an AI-based solution powered by Intel software and hardware designed to help doctors diagnose and manage patients. Integrating CMA into healthcare systems is one solution to improve health outcomes on a global scale.
AI Storage Sentinel, Malaysia – Chong Yao Ong, Zi Xuan Mok: AI Storage Sentinel is an AI-powered cabinet that uses cameras and machine learning algorithms to detect and record item locations, ensuring users always know where their belongings are.
For the 18-year-old+ age group:
AgriGate AI – Technology-enabled Rejuvenation of Soil, Singapore – Seth Olav Yong, Balasubramanian Manish, Lim Le Shi: This soil rejuvenation impact project leverages Intel technology to address urban soil compaction and land settling. Soil sensors, Intel AIxBoard and environmental units create a digital twin of soil health, monitored and managed through a large language model (LLM). This project enhances urban agriculture, reduces flood risks and stabilizes infrastructure.
Empowering Healthcare Equity: AI-driven Diagnostics for Underserved Communities, Moldova – Nikita Moglan, Daniela Malancea: This project was trained on a dataset of 20,000 images depicting lung diseases, eye fundus abnormalities, and thyroid conditions. The platform empowers users in healthcare with instant disease diagnosis and actionable insights to democratize access to accurate medical diagnostics.
OpenEdu4All Personalized Course Teaching Intelligent Support Platform, China – Jiarui Zhang, Qiming Zhang, Yuqing He: This project is based on a locally deployed large language model (LLM), combined with technologies to provide teachers and students with highly personalized and interactive teaching and learning support for all ages.
For the AI for Accessibility Award:
AI-based Customizable Dyslexia Education Application “DysTherapy,” Turkey – Arda Gökalp Batmaz, Ağa Saltıkalp, Efe Arda Ulun: This application provides personalized education for individuals with dyslexia through an AI-powered mobile application that produces and offers the content needed by each child, using NLP, computer vision, generative AI and classification methodologies.
Ishaara, India – Tanisha Kaur, Yatharth Wazir, Yashkumar Dubey: Ishaara is an AI-powered platform for translating text, speech and ISL across English and 12 Indian regional languages to enhance inclusion, improve accessibility and preserve ISL as a cultural heritage.
Pediatric Allergy Life Saver (PALS), Malaysia – Iris Yan Ning: PALS assists parents and caretakers in managing children’s allergies safely, through AI-powered symmetric semantic search of allergy symptoms using NLP and an AI allergen detector. It includes a digital allergy-driven information card and a classroom feature to help childcare centers manage allergy information with an AI safe meal generator.
