from predicting the onset of depression in children to tracking school buses to spotting cyber bullying school students use ai in innovative waysin its efforts to create an ai ecosystem in the schools cbse had introduced ai as a skill subject for children studying in grade viii and ix in march 2019 while 883 schools applied to start this subject in their schools eight schools such as delhi public school bangalore east itl public school dwarka royale concorde international school bangalore salwan public school gurgaon among others were selected on a fast track mode to study the impact well in advancethe 2year curriculum for which cbse has collaborated with intels ai4youth initiative was covered in six months as part of the pilot in which 100 students learnt the ropes of machine learning they created 15 projects based on computer vision data and nlp to help solve day to day problems as part of the initiative around 450 teachers were also trained through workshopscbses ai journey began quite inadvertently at a niti aayog meet when it was stated that india may have already missed the bus in ai this gave us the impetus to start ai curriculum in schools the children completing the curriculum have learnt coding and core competency skills such as problem solving creative thinking and selfreflection their ai journey also gave them the courage to take risks said anita karwal chairperson cbse while felicitating the children at the boards celebrating ai readiness event held in new delhi recentlyshe further informed that cbse will be launching an aiintegrated pedagogy manual which could help the teachers across streams become more aienabledtalking about the showcase and the need to initiate ai learning along with regular curriculum transaction biswajit saha director skill education and training cbse said the projectsbased approach gave the children the platform to solve realworld problems presently the board has plans to patent some of these projectswith children post the programme wanting to become ai ethics lawyers or building their own tech startups the focus has been to leverage the power of ai to help the youth move towards a digital india said shweta khurana director corporate affairs intel india some of the ai projects by cbse studentshappiness guru created by students of salwan girls senior secondary school the projectsai model can predict the onset of depression among school children and notify the same to teachers and guardians we conducted a mental health survey on 700 students across five schools to track the mental health problems through questionnaires and quiz sania saini class x student who put together the project along with teammates teena sahu and harshita rachhoyaride rater class viii students john seegler and aryan mishra of royale concorde international school bangalore developed a tracking system to keep a tab on school bus drivers to check the speeding habits frequency of sudden halts how they drive around potholes etc the system provides analysed data for school management enabling them to take corrective actions we have created a system