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The registration for the 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad (USA-NA-AIO) is open.
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PRINCIPLE of finding a proctoring site: You should always start to contact your school (not an outside site) and check if any teacher/counselor/staff is willing to proctor the contest.
USA AI Olympiad (USAAIO)
USAAIO organizes the USA-North America AI Olympiad (USA-NA-AIO) for K-12 students in the U.S. and Canada.
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By organizing Team USA for the IOAI and IAIO, USAAIO enables the United States to be a founding country of these two international Olympiads.
Announcements
*** September 30, 2025​
USAAIO staff will visit California Bay Area to meet students and parents
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Location: Cupertino, CA
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Date and time: November 07, 2025, Friday, 6:00pm-8:00pm Pacific Time
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What to do
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Summarize the past USAAIO competition
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Introduce the 2026 competition
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Do Q&A
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Registration: Click here​
*** August 26, 2025​
Our contests must be proctored. However, we understand that it is difficult for some students to find a proctor, particularly those whose schools have no teacher to proctor. To encourage these students to take our competition, USAAIO decided to expand our proctor list to invite some U.S. non-profit organizations to apply as our proctoring site.
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If you are a university/college or a K-12 school, you automatically qualify to be our proctor (you still need to inform us if your organization's name is not on our list). Otherwise, if your organization meets the following criteria, you are invite to apply here.
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Be a U.S. non-profit organization with a 501(C)3 status.​
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Have a business license.
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Proctored either 2024 AMC 10A/10B/12A/12B or 2025 F=ma.​​
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USAAIO seriously upholds the academic integrity. We take various approaches to prevent and identify cheating.
*** August 18, 2025​
Team USA earned 3 Silver Medals, 3 Bronze Medals and 1 Honorable Mention in the 2025 IOAI​ held during August 02-09 in Beijing, China.​
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The Silver Medal winners are:​
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Pranav Sambhu, Rising senior, Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, GA
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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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The Bronze Medal winners are:
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Mahith Gottipati, Rising senior, Dulles High School Math and Science Academy, Sugar Land, TX
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Sanghyeon (Robert) Joo, Rising senior, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
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Bryan Zhu, Rising senior, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA
The Honorable Mention winner is:
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Sophia Hou, Rising senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
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You can read the Press Release by clicking here.
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*** July 23, 2025​
8 students will represent the U.S. for the 2025 IOAI. Beyond the two-round individual tests that will determine each individual's ranking and medal, there will also be a team challenge component. 8 students will form two teams for the team challenge.
To make the team formation fair, fun and AI-insightful, we implemented this algorithm to divide 8 students into 2 teams.
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Team 1: Robert Joo, Derek Sha, William Wang, Bryan Zhu
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Team 2: Mahith Gottipati, Sophia Hou, Pranav Sambhu, Lily Shi
Again, the algorithm that we used is very insightful. We invite you to share your comment on our algorithm here. This is a very good practice for you to learn and use AI.​​
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*** 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: 3
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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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Congratulations!
*** 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.​​