The registration for the 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad (USA-NA-AIO) is open.
USA AI Olympiad (USAAIO)
We organize USA-North America AI Olympiad (USA-NA-AIO) for K-12 students in the U.S. and Canada.
Announcements
*** June 23, 2025​
2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad (USA-NA-AIO) is open for registration (valid until 01/26/2026, 11:59pm, Pacific Time).​​
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The contest consists of three rounds.
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Round 1: January 30, 2026 (Friday), 12pm-3pm (U.S. Eastern Time).
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Round 2: March or April, 2026, MIT
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USAAIO Camp: June, 2026, MIT
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U.S. will use this contest to select
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College placement of past Team USA members
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Caltech: 2​
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MIT: 5
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Stanford: 2
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Some acknowledgements. USAAIO is indebted to
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MIT and Temple University for providing academic, technological and facility support.
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Google for providing contestants who qualify for Round 2 and above FREE access to Google Colab Pro+ GPU computing resource.
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Jane Street for providing contestants financial and career support.
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Beaver-Edge AI for using its platform to run USA-NA-AIO and providing the public a FREE AI communication forum.
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*** June 22, 2025​
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The following 8 students will represent the U.S. for the 2025 IOAI.
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Mahith Gottipati, Rising senior, Dulles High School Math and Science Academy, Sugar Land, TX
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Sophia Hou, Rising senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
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Sanghyeon (Robert) Joo, Rising senior, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
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Pranav Sambhu, Rising senior, Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, GA
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Derek Sha, Rising junior, Sage Hill School, Newport Coast, CA
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Lily Shi, Rising senior, The Harker School, San Jose, CA
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William Wang, Rising senior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
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Bryan Zhu, Rising senior, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA
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Let's meet them here.
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Congrutulations!
*** May 01, 2025​
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2025 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 award list can be found here.
*** April 17, 2025​
2025 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 Schedule
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Date: April 27, 2025
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Location: MIT (we will notify qualifiers the exact venue)
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Schedule
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8am - 8:40am: Check in.​
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8:40am - 9am: Opening remark by MIT admissions.
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9am - 12:15pm: Contest.
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1:15pm - 4:30pm: Competition day events (open to all qualifiers and their parents).
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USAAIO's info session.​
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Career panel by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
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MIT admissions' info session.
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Concluding remark.
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Social time.
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*** April 07, 2025​
Statistics of 2025 USA-NA-AIO Round 1:
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Number of participants: 393
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Number of Round 2 qualifiers: 76
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Percentage of contestants who qualify for Round 2: 19.3%
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Round 2 cutoff score: 53 out of 300
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Round 1 awards cutoff scores:
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Distinguished Honor Roll: 217 out of 300
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High Honor Roll: 153 out of 300
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Honor Roll: 72 out of 300
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*** March 29, 2025​
We have finished grading Round 1 and finalized a list of contestants who qualify for Round 2.
We have notified all qualifiers.
If you have not received our notification, we are sorry you do not qualify for Round 2.
​​​​*** USAAIO invited Jane Street to present for the U.S. AI team members.
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On 09/16/2024, USAAIO invited Jane Street staff to present for the U.S. AI team members.​​
​​​​*** One team represented USA for the 2024 International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) in Saudi Arabia (September 08 - 12, 2024).
Congratulations to Ronok Ghosal and Kevin Peng for receiving BRONZE awards.
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You can read the Press Release by clicking here​​​
​​​​*** Two teams represented USA for the 2024 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in Bulgaria (August 09 - 15, 2024).
Congratulations to Team 1 (Sarang Goel, Christina Luoluo Lee, Videet Mehta, Angelina Quan) for receiving GOLD awards and Team 2 (Shraman Kar, Ella Lan, Riya Tyagi, Grant Wang) for receiving BRONZE awards.
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You can read the Press Release by clicking here.​​