Congratulations to the 2026 Presidential AI Challenge State Champions!
State winners advance to regional competitions; finalists will showcase their projects in Washington, D.C. in June.
| State | Team Members |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Oliver Ambrose, Ethan Haynes, Cynthia He, Lachlan Kennedy, Cole Miles, Maria Mrug, Julia Muse, Samantha Noever, Xinzi Wang, Jennifer Wolverton |
| Alaska | Bela Ciechanowiecki, Jonathan Li, Liam Robbert, Mohammad Sami |
| Arizona | Lukas Burgan, Aryan Chand, Suhana Chand, Levi Gerken, Anthony Gomez, Arnav Hingorani, Eli Kumar, Santiago Laborin, Tim Mayfield, Aaditya Naik, Ayaan Ranjan, Andrea Scahill |
| Arkansas | Amrita Choudhary, Saloni Choudhary, Sanjna Choudhary, Grayson Jones, Havish Kunchanapalli, Amy Ricarda McCall, Jaithra Polavarapu, Aditya Ramani, Roza Shaimurat, Sloan Thorne, Vivian Wang |
| California | Divika Agarwal, Anedya Reddy Bandi, Yafet Bekele, Christopher Chaung, Ryan Cho, Srivanth Dasu, Srihari Gomadam, Parth Gupta, Daekyeong Han, Kevin Hare, Hillary Ho, Ariv Jain, Arshia Jain, Zara Kals, John Kim, Vy Le, Allison Liu, Luis A. Mateos, Atharv Mishra, Saanvi Pagadala, Kaira Pahuja, Anant Pal, Tony Reyna, Bowen Shem, Yukti Srinivas, Jachin Thilak, Aditya Vengata, Brendon Wu, Aria Yi, Alvin Zhang |
| Colorado | Caris Hodgkinson, Amir Manza, Sabontu Manza, Riya Mukund, Aditi Muthukumar, Matthew O'Donnell, William O'Donnell, Anirudh Rao, Ciara Stastny, Mai Vu |
| Connecticut | Ryan Abdullai, Sophia Hatvani, Leonie Kalra, Lisette Kalra, Pranay Kaveri, Lev Kung, Joanne Mumley, James Norman, Maximilian Rutkowski, Karthik Srikumar |
| Delaware | Robert Evans, Rohit Marath, Vedic Mukhurgee, Aryna Shingavi, Sajjan Subramanian, Wika Sun |
| District of Columbia | Ezekiel Green-Gibbons, Israel Poole Grade, Ja'Montae Oliver, Sahan Patel, Shivaj Raman, John Schmidt, Alexander Ting |
| DoWEA School | Charles Anderson, Mela Anderson, Azariah Asare, Seijyu Blythe, Aiden Boepple, Annabella Cinque, D'Kwan Davis, Sonia Desir, Maryanne Dyer, Amelia Duckett, Amelia Ferrer, Grady Guth, Mateo Gutierrez, Jada Hawley, Brooklynn Hopkin, Olivia Johnson, Chrysoula Karakonstantis, Colton Key, Nolan Key, Kristy King, Willa Kohl, Glen Laurenzi, George Line, Maliah Marion, Lydia Maxey, Lisa McGuin, Sam Mejias, Henry Meyer, Liberty Perry-Kline, Cameron Phillips, Ellie Pinches, Makinley Pirkle, Maxximus Powell, Aliana Purdy, Dorian Reed, Kennedy Rodriguez, Andres Rosch, Kara Shum, Matthew Snoeyink, Saoirse Solomon, Daniella Stephens, Raelynn Sykas, Olive Wilson, John Wood, Addison Wray, Aria Wray |
| Florida | Yenesis Alvarez, Dylan Bergnes, David Bonanza, Lori Bradner, Ava Canamero, Dennis Chi, Cali Clerc, Emma Consterla, Juliet Damani, James Du, Maria Fernandez, Alejandro Forner-Ibanez, Emily Herrera, Stevie Hodgkins, Zahin Hossain, Donna Kemp, Georgia Kolettis, Jacob Li, Taulia Liddell, Taura Liddell, Alexa Marino, Angeline Martinez, Arya Patel, Aaron Pinto, Nathan Olomu, Noah Olomu, Chiara Niswander, Zanele Sanchez, Shan Vance, Edward Wang, Emil Webley, Asher Webley, Aliza Yetnikoff, Andrew Zhao |
| Georgia | Prabal Basnet, Cassandra Bell, Dominic Castro, Kyren Cobb, Mario Cortes, Hannah Denney, Corina Grabrill, Endrias Jekamo, Edward Larimer, Ayden Levermore, Daxton Miracle, Jolie Potter, Usha Patke, Josiah Rhames, Ryleigh Reynolds, Liam Rodriguez, Blake Russell, Victoria Ryde, Javier Scottsborgh, Khushii Ssharma, Moksh Somayajula, Averi Stewart, Leilani Stewart, Jamir Washington, Samantha Westerlind |
| Hawaii | Kendal Calumpit, David Gonzales, Judah Gonzales, Tammy Nguyen, Kuinncey Phillips, Johnray Salud, Tricia Siletti, Auramanihda Stampson, Dylan Takata, Skyler Tanicala. |
| Idaho | Elaine Gross, Myles Hardy, Vincent Jensen, Marlee Morgas, Avyakt G. Nataraj, Luke Rupp, Marco Trotta, Henry Turcotte, Matthew Yocum |
| Illinois | Yahya Alahdal, Nina Aramouni, Medha Bhat, Catherine Dong, Diana Dong, Anya Dua, Grace Finn, Armaan Grewal, Eva Gupta, Tiziana Lambert, Josh Maddela, Shiv Magadum, Arshiya Mansingh, Ekaansh Ravuri, Owen Rummel, Luc Sever, Anaika Sehgal, Samarth Sehgal, Tejesh Sanka, Aditi Sunkari, Avik Tiwari, David H Wang |
| Indiana | Arav Arora, Sizheng Cailean Chen, Chloe Chen, Jonathan Davis, Yiwen Duerstock, An Kong, Cooper Lawhorn, Helena Jiuru Liu, David Quan |
| Iowa | Elise Babler, Clara Baessler, Wyatt Berry, Madelyn Cortner, Reagan Douglas, Harper Givens, Layni Green, Jimmy Hanson, Van Hilbert, Arabella Hill, Vivian Hoelscher, Vera Hollingsworth, Landyn Irr, Amelia Lange, Aubrie Lehman, Hunter Mundell, Arnav Kulkarni, Srihari Kumaresan, Creed Russell, Campbell Rethmeier, David Shi, Payton Sollum, Malin Thier, Charlotte Wenck, Sarvin Vasisvaran, Satya Thavanesh Yalla |
| Kansas | Eric Chen, Caden J. Cleveland, Jonah Freiden, Nathan Krajicek, Lucas Nanny, Albert Wang |
| Kentucky | Deacon Brewer, Avery Crook, Renata Rios Felix, Jacob Flack, Lily Gilbert, Teagan Golden, Clara Hawkins, Alexa Johnson, Lena Miller, Liam Morrison, Marta Castillo Quintana, Advika Rastogi, Pam Rowland, Rayleigh Stewart, Ashlyn Watson |
| Louisiana | Solomon Bates, George Broadwell, Ar'eanna Caldwell, Augustus Easton, Dawn Edelen, Lilyann Fletcher, Adrian Gay, Alexander Harris, Austin Jerolleman, Adeline Kirsh, Molly Reyher, Keely Rhinehart-Tripp, Radin Sepehrimanesh, Adaline Sanders, Charlotte Whittenbarger |
| Maine | Hannah Aiton, Brayden DeWitt, Gracie Fecteau, Manny Wheaton |
| Maryland | Shanmukha Annam, Vaishnavi Annam, Dylan P. Dunn, Anna Hsieh, Hudson S. Hughes, Shiven Khurana, Sean Li, Rachel Lugo, Steven Luo, William Luo, James McGowan, William R. Peterson, Brody M. Reisfield, Amelia Song, Colin Zhao |
| Massachusetts | Sayoni Agarwal, Milin Dugnoor, Amanda Gallerani, Jasmine Gu, Anay Kumar, Yumeng Mia Li, Arunavya Satyam, Ayansh Srivastava, Justin Wang |
| Michigan | Matthias Adams, Nivyasai Bharanitharan, Landon Brondyke, Samuel Cai, Isabel Cornejo, Elliot Dietlin, Scott Dombak, Olivia Duffy, Lucy Garlak, Kyla Grassmid, Olive Grassmid, Finn Haus, Harper Halonen, Gabe Hjerstedt, Kenzlyn Hillary, Ella Jones, Norah Kirk, Lucas Kasper, Eli Launiere, Livie Nayback, Devin Newcombe, Tharun Manikandan, Tanay Panja, Noah Pawlik, Elaina Rama, Connor Robinson, Shivika Sahni, Hans Schroeder, Henrik Schroeder, Lewis Vendlinski, Daniel Xie, Amaya Zavala |
| Minnesota | Soujash Biswas, Isabella Garry, Aneeqa Shareen Hajamydeen, Emaan Moheet, Levi Torgerson, and Zoe Vander Vorst |
| Mississippi | Pamela Bailey, Johnathan Green, Genesis Hill, Ryleigh Kyles, Landon Spraggin, Tyzir Turner |
| Missouri | Aayan Behura, Aneesh Calyam, Sierra Carroll, Hudson Edwards, Lucas He, Atlantis Holloway, Karter Johnson, Maureen Kramanak, Kay'c Kulenburg, Amad McCray, Ilona Potter, Dhruv Rohatgi, Alayna Sher, Aanya Shetty, Michael Thomas, Deegan Tinkum-Vasek, Margot Wilkes |
| Montana | Nicholas Caluori, Mythri Faron, Lily Hanson, Xavier Irby, Evangaline McCormick, Jason Neiffer, Eva Peterson, John Schaefer, Ryder Scott, Tami Redinger |
| Nebraska | Thanvi Bhat |
| Nevada | Stephanie Francis, Tasheni Kamanga, Vasili Moseley, Dhruvi Patel, Joshua Scott, Kiaan Sharma, Natalie Vazquez, Alexis Wang, Amy White, Michael Yenor |
| New Hampshire | Eric Buehler, Leona Buehler |
| New Jersey | Bridget Blash, Armaan Chopra, Sharvani Dara, Laura Fuhrmann, Emily Jin, Regina Knowlton, Hanvit Lee, Jason Liu, An Nguyen, Ziyan Qazi-Jumrani, Bennett Schwartz |
| New Mexico | Elijah Galindez, Jiayuan Liu, Ishan Nagpal, Landon Sanxter, Harshit Singh, Mason Williams, Leo Zheng |
| New York | Alexander Baio, Milan Barros, Emilia Benitez, James Charrel, Reece Chemnitz, Samuel Choi, Dilyn Chowdhary, Madison Collins, Alice Ding, Chris Ding, Francesca DeJesus, Fabio DeOliveira, Adelina Durante, Caterina Durante, Sadie Geddish, Donna Gross, Marlowe Harris, Zhaire Hayes, Stanley Hu, Austin Jin, Rachel Kent, Kate Kim, Emma Knapp, Timothy Leary, Jason Li, Rora Li, Arick Liu, Ryan Liu, Aidan Magone, William Magone, Massimo Michelotto, Joseph Mistretta, Lauren Moriarty, Evan Mou, Rafael Murca, Artur Myhatsko, Bryson Peterson, Juliana Razzano, Elias Reyes, Caroline Riddle, Sarah Shen, Angeline Shin, Sophia Somerville, Patrick Stanciu, Maximus Suh, Alexis Vandergoot, Diane Ward, Jasper Zhang, Olivia Zhang, Simon Zhang, Leo Zheng |
| North Carolina | Zola Banks, Dillian Campbell, Carter Cole, Luis Cruz-Mondragon, Nilan Gonzalez, Jennifer Guy, Ronald Hensley, Ryan Koskinen, Kshetra Koti, Shanmukhi Malireddy, Hasini Meruva, Tristian Moeschet, Jerrin Moore, Elijah Morris, Adalynn Olivas, June Ploch, Swathi Praveen, Carrie Robledo, Mae Sandifer, Andrew Shih, Ananya Priyadarshini Sinha, Caroline Thornberry, Delilah Vincent |
| North Dakota | Caleb Bender, Ayden Boeshans, Seleena Briones, Bella Duda, Cynthia Glavin, Olivia Hanson, Aditya Oza, Jayden Taylor, Easton Wagner, Nevaeh Wold |
| Ohio | Joshua Amstutz, Dalsingh Azariah, Kyler Bedzyk, Kenzie Bice, Jakob Chang, Karson Collins, Brody Conaway, Zehra Demirtoka, Erik Dong, James Gordon, Khloe Halker, Nora Hanneman, Owen Kemper, Addison Knueven, Diya Senthil Kumar, Addison Lahmers, Olivia Li, Eason Liang, Melody Lin, Sofie Paugh, Matthew Poeppelman, Jenna Prasuhn, Savannah Reynolds, Keira Schrock, Rishi Shah, Olivia Sparks, Evan Stambaugh, Karsen Thobe, Malik Tipton, Jensen Wu |
| Oklahoma | Jiaze (Jason) Gao, Asher Jordan, Eleanor Jordan, Rusty Jordan, Joshua Li, Emalynn Russell, Evelyn Sanjoe, Edward Sanjoe |
| Oregon | Mishika Chauhan, Ian Kong, Aariv Kumar, Andrew Ma, Sai G Mudunuri, Madesh Saravanan, Eevie Taare |
| Pennsylvania | Hailey Beard, Kalina Bell, Ginevieve Borreson, Alexander Clark, Aditya Dhar, John Doman IV, Alexander Du, Paul Dubin, Eric Huang, Aaron Kesilman, Christopher Killinger, Kenneth Kim, Faustyna Kozak, Valentina Li, Sebastian Li, Khandakar Mahin, Naomi Marsh, Saranya Mathur, Aadi Nangare, Joe Perkovich, Rohith Rajan, Brinda Rangam, Ilaria Rost, Sahil Ruparelia, Jameson Samoylo, Ethan Sansone, Justin Sansone, Aaradhya Sharma,P ragya Sharma, Ruby Slager, Greyson Smith, Eevie Taare, Lillian Tang, Jacob Udovic, Dylan Walsh, Noah Zhou |
| Rhode Island | Rishabh Mathukiya, Shrivats Pandey, and Owen James Traversie |
| South Carolina | Callan Dugger, HannahBeth Fair, G Gedikoglu, Kaya Gedikoglu, Brittany Hall, Arjun Jain, Harry Lin, Monte Lin, Barbara Morrow, Jai Mihir Penumadula, Noah Parise, Yuhang Wu, Pradhyun Yetukuri, Preethika Yetukuri, Aiden Zhao |
| South Dakota | Wyatt Boerger, George Carpenter, Isha Gadhamshetty, Neha Gadhamshetty, Freya Gaul, Grayson Gibbens, Jeanne Gnimpieba, Shourya Goyal, Brooklynn Gross, Mercedes Knapp, Marah Maguire, Hunter McCroden, Nihita Medagam, Ashwini Paudel, Nina Purushottam, Vihan Purushottam, Lara Sage, Sarah Vigil, Vivien Weaver, Cale Winkler, Lucy Wosepka, Zenaida Zimny |
| Tennessee | Ashlee Barnes, Alexander Barthel, Ava Barthel, Brown Bannister, Kendrick Coffer, Adrien Heins, Jessica Holloway, Faith Liddell, Sofia Milana Krusell, Hope McDonald, Kameron Taylor, Esabella Wellington, Talia Woods, Caroline Zhao |
| Territories | José Duarte, Giuliano Echevarría, Santos Jonuel Pinto Garriga, Lianys Hernández, José Julián Rodríguez Muñoz, Francisco do Rego, Diego Rivera, Yariel A. Vega |
| Texas | Olamide Ajay, Raseel Al Najjar, Averie Bazan, Caroleena Below, Shiraz Ben-Shmuel, Neyvn Braxton, Octavie Brossard, Michelle Buraczyk, David Borrero, Aisha Bulut, Audrey Deng, Skyler DoKylie, Juliet Gillespie, Adrian Godwin, Arev Gogineni, Noah Jackson, Henit Jain, Neil Jamdade, Reeva Kagitapu, Liam Kaiser, Gavin Kalich, Lawrence Xander Kane, Acharya Kolby, Alina Li, Alice Lin, Nicole Lipps, Eagan Loyd, Thanh Khue Ly, Avant Manghnani, Catherine Manis, Isaac Martinez, Maxwell Mitchell, Donaven Mouton, Shanaya Narsingani, Adalyn Neaveas, Ella Nguyen, Yen Nguyen, Nil Oguz, Andrew Oum, Aryan Paidi, Martin Patino, Christian Perryman, Mason Powers, Harini Praveen, Jaxson Saddler, Zahra Sai, Kevin Sias, Kyna Singh, Paw Sa Dah Soe, Alexander Somerville, Rehaan Toutam, Lucas Tudor, Anzel Vasquez, Cameron Young |
| Utah | Daryn Collins, Jaden Collins, Maggie Grindstaff, Kasey Kingston, Asher Larsen, Jason Nichols, Tapan Singareddy, Cadence Walton, Cameron Walton, and Courtnie Walton, Forest Niu Young, Victor Niu Young |
| Virginia | Kimaayra Anand, Rhys Badgley, Avee Chahal, Arya Chandrasekar, Jay Chauhan, Aarav Chokshi, Alex Cordova, Susan Davenport, Nitin Gogineni, Aarna Jaiswal, Ira Jaiswal, Ishie Jaiswal, Eshani Khatri, Vibhav Mamidipudi, Riva Madda, Samitha Pinna Mareddy, Audrey Na, Aryan Nuguru, Andrea Oraze, Srihan Pinnamareddy, Sanuli Rathnayake, Nihara Reddy, Nikash Reddy, Ruchit Singh, Martins Smite, Tobias Thomas, Ira Vivaramneni, Zoya Waheed |
| Washington | Mira Arora, Shlok Bansal, Henry Guo, Viha Iyer, Aditi Jha, Roy Jung, Cheryl McClure, Aaditya Prabhu, Arya Pratap, Shrimayi Shetty, Nate Spahr, Erin Wu, Jacob Yip, William Yoon, Cindy Zhou |
| West Virginia | Yousif Al-Sinbol, Zekun B. Chen, Eric Y. Dai, Westlee Daniels, Theodore Lee Kantner, Anna Lu, Emma J. Lu, Timothy McKeegan, Jack Nilsson, Ella Parsi, Ada Seaver, Gianna Sciacco, Sophia Tatar, Ansh Vasani |
| Wisconsin | Landen Anderson, William Boehm, Brynley Hampton, Nicholas Pietranik, George Roginsky, Tonya J. Serna, Hannah Wagner |
| Wyoming | Arjit Bhavsar, Teresa Merager |