How 4th Graders Used AI to Hunt Vampire Fish (Elementary School)

Send us Fan Mail Vampire fish in the Great Lakes sounds like a prank until you learn sea lampreys are real and they’re chewing through ecosystems like trout and salmon. We start with that eerie mental image, then take a hard turn into something hopeful: kids solving a real environmental problem with artificial intelligence, creativity, and a strong sense of what “safe” should mean. A team of fourth graders in Michigan enters the Presidential AI Challenge and builds a concept called the Guard...