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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.

By organizing Team USA for the IOAI, IAIO, and IAI²O, USAAIO enables the United States to be a founding country of these three international Olympiads.

Announcements

  • The registration for the 2027 USA-NA-AIO competition is open now. It will be closed on January 31, 2027, 11:59pm EST.
  • The 2027 Round 1 competition will be on February 19, 2027, 12pm-3pm EST.
  • USA-NA-AIO is the unique pathway for U.S. students to represent the U.S. at the following three international competitions:
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2026 USAAIO Round 3 (camp) information
2026 USAAIO Camp Schedule
DateTimeActivity
June 08All dayCheck-in
June 0907:30 - 08:30Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00Welcome remark
09:00 -12:00Team selection test
12:15 - 1:45Lunch
14:00 - 15:00Guest talk by Dr. Sadid Hasan from Microsoft
15:00 - 15:30Break
15:30 - 17:00Team selection test
18:30 - 20:00Dinner
June 1007:30 - 08:45Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00Team selection test
12:15 - 1:45Lunch
14:00 - 17:00Team selection test
18:30 - 20:00Dinner
June 1107:30 - 08:45Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00Lecture
10:00 - 11:00Guest talk by Mr. Jonah Boucher from Non-Trivial
11:00 - 12:00Guest talk by Mr. Tony Ho from General Catalyst
12:15 - 13:45Lunch
14:00 - 14:45Lecture
15:00 - 16:00Harvard Admissions info session
16:15 - 17:00Lecture
18:30 - 20:00Dinner
June 1207:30 - 08:45Breakfast
09:00 -12:00Team selection test
12:15 - 1:45Lunch
All dayCheck-out
  • 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 Award ranking list can be found here.
  • 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 2 was successfully held at Harvard and MIT on April 04-06.
  • Click here for the Press Release.
  • Contest problems and the design and rationale behind those problems can be found here.

Below is the schedule of the 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2:

April 3 (Friday)

  • Location: MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, 292 Main Street, Building E38, Cambridge, MA 02142
  • 12:15pm-1pm: MIT Admissions info session
  • 1pm-2pm: MIT campus tour

April 4 (Saturday)

  • Location: Harvard University Boston Campus, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC) 246 Walter Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
  • 8:30am-9am: Contestants registration and Day 1 morning check-in
  • 9am-12pm:
  • 1:30pm-2pm: Contestants Day 1 afternoon check-in
  • 2pm-2:30pm: Day 1 pre-competition briefing
    • Problem types
    • Submission instruction
    • Academic integrity and cheating policy
    • Proctoring software instruction
    • Q&A
  • 2:30pm-5:30pm: Day 1 competition

April 5 (Sunday)

  • Location: MIT Building 10 Room 250, 222 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • 8am-8:30am: Contestants Day 2 check-in
  • 8:30am-9am: Day 2 pre-competition briefing
  • 9am-1pm: Day 2 competition
  • 1:30-2:30pm: Concluding remark
    • History, present and future of AI Olympiads
    • Value of taking AI Olympiads
    • Review of Day 1 competition
    • Q&A
  • We thank Google for giving each Round 2 participant 500 GPU compute units for free.
  • 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 schedule
    • Dates: April 4 and 5 (two days).
    • Locations: Harvard and MIT (two locations).
  • Round 2 cutoff score
    • 98 out of 300
  • Round 1 award cutoff scores
    • Distinguished Honor Roll: 201 out of 300
    • High Honor Roll: 146 out of 300
    • Honor Roll: 98 out of 300
  • Round 1 award ranking list can be found here.

Congratulations to Team USA on their strong performance at the 2026 International AI Olympiad (IAIO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia during February 23-27. These outstanding students brought home one Gold, one Silver and two Honorable Mentions.

  • Gold Medal
    • Dale Liu, Junior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
  • Silver Medal
    • Peter Xiao, Senior, Montgomery High School, Silver Spring, MD
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Aaditya Bilakanti, Sophomore, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
    • Jerry Yu, Senior, Piedmont High School, Piedmont, CA
  • You can read the Press Release by clicking here.

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.

  • The Silver Medal winners are:
    • Pranav Sambhu, Rising senior, Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, GA
    • Lily Shi, Rising senior, The Harker School, San Jose, CA
    • William Wang, Rising senior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
  • The Bronze Medal winners are:
    • Mahith Gottipati, Rising senior, Dulles High School Math and Science Academy, Sugar Land, TX
    • Sanghyeon (Robert) Joo, Rising senior, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
    • Bryan Zhu, Rising senior, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA
  • The Honorable Mention winner is:
    • Sophia Hou, Rising senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
  • You can read the Press Release by clicking here.
Statistics of 2025 USA-NA-AIO Round 1:
  • Number of participants: 393
  • Number of Round 2 qualifiers: 76
  • Percentage of contestants who qualify for Round 2: 19.3%
  • Round 2 cutoff score: 53 out of 300
  • Round 1 awards cutoff scores:
    • Distinguished Honor Roll: 217 out of 300
    • High Honor Roll: 153 out of 300
    • Honor Roll: 72 out of 300
  • 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.
  • You can read the Press Release by clicking here.