Congrats to our #AI4FinancialGood Challenge Winners
Happy AI Literacy Day! We’re incredibly proud of all our students who “secured the bag” and entered our #AI4FinancialGood challenge. 🎉 These students created hundreds of captivating projects that explored how AI can be used to help people with their finances. Let’s meet the winners of our challenge and learn more about their incredible projects.
First Place: Shruti and Swetha
Coming in first place for our College Loops division, Shruti and Swetha created AIFinTech, an app aimed at helping immigrant families manage personal finances. Going beyond simply tracking a budget, the app offers advice on how to increase investment yields.
Second Place: Itzel, Erika, and Shukria
Imagine having a BFF that helps you save money. BudgetBFF is an app aimed at making financial education and budgeting accessible to everyone. College Loops members and second-place winners Itzel, Erika, and Shukria’s project use customized learning modules focused on financial literacy.
Third Place: Ximena, Jasmine, and Diya
College Loops members and third-place winners Ximena, Jasmine, and Diya created a project that simplifies financial aid using AI. Their chat-based AI is aimed at simplifying access to financial aid, offering a holistic and personalized approach to scholarship matchmaking while prioritizing inclusivity and community.
High School Clubs Winners
High school Club students Jillian, Chelsy, Charita, Maggie, Advika, Gracie, Saredo, and Harini created a presentation about a tool called “Smart Spend” that uses AI and machine learning algorithms to categorize users’ spending and provide recommendations. An additional component, “Coins for College,” helps users save for college.
This group’s project will help curb your impulse buys. High school Club students Amelia, Bridget, Ella, Ana, Hannah, Molly, Diana, and Ashleigh created “Billy the Buck.” This AI Chrome extension helps users avoid unnecessary purchases while teaching them about budgeting and financial literacy.
High school student Folashewa created #FINANCEE3, a free Discord chatbot developed in Python that helps younger people become financially literate..
Way to invest in your future! High school student Aarna created Virtute Venture. This website inspires individuals to invest profitably in companies they care about by highlighting ethical investment options.
Middle School Clubs Winners
Financial advisor…but make it AI. Middle school students Sharanya, Mahima, and Hannah created Money Mentor, an AI-based financial advisor project that uses a chatbot to provide personalized financial advice based on location, income, and household details.
Middle school student Madelyn created “Finance Finder,” an AI budgeting tool consisting of a desktop web app for cash flow changes and a proposed browser extension to help users make smarter spending decisions and gain control of their finances based on the user’s spending history.
Thank you so much to our Girls Who Code community for being a part of this challenge. We also want to shout out to our incredible sponsor companies for supporting our students as they learn about AI. Thank you so much to BAE Systems , Betterment , LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) , PNC , U.S. Bank , Volvo Cars , ADP Foundation, Meijer, Gravity Forms rms, Parsons Corporation , Appstle Inc. , OneMain Financial, and Deloitte.
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