First Lady Melania Trump Announces New AI Challenge

First Lady Melania Trump has jumped on the AI hype train.

In a video released on X, First Lady Melania Trump has announced the Presidential AI challenge.

The new AI challenge from Melania is a government-backed contest that challenges children from Kindergarten through 12th grade to use AI to solve real-world problems.

The Associated Press reported more on Melania’s AI challenge to children:

Melania Trump on Tuesday invited students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest that is designed to encourage them to work together to use artificial intelligence tools to solve community issues.

“As someone who created an AI-powered audio book and championed online safety through the Take It Down Act, I’ve seen firsthand the promise of this powerful technology,” the first lady says in a short video announcing the Presidential AI Challenge. “Now, I pass the torch of innovation to you.”

“Just as America once led the world into the skies, we are poised to lead again,” she continued. “This time, in the age of AI.”

Every student from kindergarten through 12th grade is invited to “unleash their imagination and showcase the spirit of American innovation,” Trump said.

Students who sign up will complete a project using an artificial intelligence method or tool to address a community challenge.

Watch Melania make the announcement here:

Are you ready for an AI challenge?
Visit https://t.co/PNPBv2KckS pic.twitter.com/GdRiH8tz2t

— First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 26, 2025

Second Lady Usha Vance has also been promoting education among children.

Fox News reported Usha Vane has launched a reading challenge for students:

America’s students should put down their phones and read a book or embrace other activities instead, second lady Usha Vance urged this week as she shared an “eye-opening” personal revelation about “how literacy is faring in the United States.”

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She chose reading as her summer initiative, Vance told Fox News Digital, after she was inspired by her middle child’s interest in reading from watching his older brother.

“He wanted to read, and he wanted me to teach him to read,” she said in an interview.

“That took me down a rabbit hole of trying to understand how one teaches reading… and it was really eye-opening,” she added. She and her husband, Vice President JD Vance, have three children.

At Cherokee Classical Academy in Canton, Georgia, on Thursday, the second lady encouraged students to put down their electronic devices and engage with a book instead.

The Second Lady Summer Reading Challenge is here! Click the link in bio for additional details 📖 #2ndLadySummerReads pic.twitter.com/FgNHA3YFwe

— Second Lady Usha Vance (@SLOTUS) June 1, 2025