MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — Students in the Pattonville School District celebrated a major win for their work with artificial intelligence on Thursday.
Seniors at Pattonville High School won first place, a trophy and $10,000 in a World Wide Technology competition that sought out the best minds from local high schools in the St. Louis metro area to help address their schools' unique needs.
This time around, students were asked to create a technical solution that leveraged AI responsibly and ethically while addressing a problem at their schools or improving the academic experiences of students and staff.
Pattonville seniors created a project titled "Anchor," which uses AI to evaluate previous academic records, class difficulty and future plans for each student to help place them in appropriate classes for the year.
Once a student completes the initial survey and uploads their transcripts, the AI tool suggests classes for them in the coming school year.
"I think it'll benefit the freshman and sophomores more who have no idea what they want to do who are looking for sort of just a guideline," Faisal Yousif said.
Bryce Reynolds spent hours working on coding.
"I did a lot of the programming. I made the website and the server that you know send the website to the clients and that required a lot of work," Reynolds said.
The hard work was worth the experience and access to professional software, giving the students something to add to their resumes.
"Hope it helps me find jobs in the future" Reynolds said.
The competition had 44 successful students.
Bayless High School was recognized for second place, with Jennings Senior High & College Prep Academy coming in third.
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