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AI For a Better Community

How can data you choose to use help solve a problem that matters to your community?

AI for a Better Community — Codex Challenge invites young people and educators to turn ideas into AI applications that help others. Start with something you’d like to improve in your school, family, neighborhood, or community. Then use data you choose to bring your idea to life—creating something useful for the people around you and contributing to the public good.

Explore the areas where you could make a difference

Climate

Take action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Example opportunities include:
• Reduce carbon emissions in communities and organizations, including through clean energy.
• Help communities prepare for and adapt to extreme weather and other climate impacts.
• Make products and materials more renewable, repairable, reusable, and recyclable.
• Strengthen access to sustainable, resilient food and water resources in urban and rural communities.

Economic Prosperity

Improve financial and economic opportunities for all.

Example opportunities include:
• Address digital and technological literacy gaps that make it harder to participate in a changing job market.
• Create pathways to upskill, reskill, and retrain workers—and connect them with employers.
• Help temporary, informal, and freelance workers access opportunities, stability, and safety nets.
• Ensure women, low-income communities, and underserved groups can participate in and benefit from emerging technologies, jobs, and industries.
• Expand equitable access to employment, credit, and opportunities to build long-term and generational wealth.

Health

Improve access to healthcare and health outcomes while reducing disparities.

Example opportunities include:
• Support physical and mental health and well-being.
• Make effective, affordable healthcare more accessible in urban and rural communities.
• Help prevent, detect, and manage illness, emerging pandemics, and other public-health threats.
• Reduce disparities in healthcare access, experiences, and outcomes.

Learning

Improve learning opportunities and outcomes across people's lives.

Example opportunities include:
• Expand access to high-quality educational opportunities, including for learners in rural, remote, or displaced communities.
• Help underserved learners develop the skills and confidence they need to enter or advance in the workforce.
• Give teachers and educators tools to better support student and adult learning.

Other

Address an unmet social, environmental, or economic need beyond these four areas.

Program Timeline

Start with Codex 101 and responsible AI design. Choose your problem, intended users, and a safe plan for your data.

Develop a prototype, test a feature, get feedback, and iterate with guidance from participating networks.

Share your short demo, prototype link, problem statement, and explanation of data and responsible design.

Selected teams share projects and lessons with peers, educators, researchers, and partners.

Ready for submission

Youth builders

Teen teams can build practical tools for themselves, friends, families, schools, or communities. Begin with the needs of people you know. Curiosity and care matter as much as technical experience.

Educators and mentors

Teachers and other educators can create applications to support teaching, learning, or professional practice—and help young builders approach AI responsibly.

Ready to explore? Apply Now

Frequently asked questions

See also: Educator FAQs ↗ in the Educator Guide