A team of students from Islamabad has won second prize at the World Artificial Intelligence Championship for the Youth (WAICY) 2025, a global competition with more than 132,000 participants from 103 countries.
The team represented Roots IVY Gandhara H-8 Campus. It was led by Farahaad Ehtesham, along with Ibrahim Yasir and Musab Khan, all studying in IGCSE-I.
They won the silver medal in the LLM Prompt Engineering (Technology as a Service) category.
Their project, “Ivy Mentor – A Personalised Academic and Coding Assistant,” is a digital learning tool. It helps students understand school subjects and learn coding through personalised support.
Judges evaluated the project based on creativity, ease of use, and how well it solves real educational problems.
A press release said the achievement is impressive because of the students’ young age and the large scale of the competition.
Participants included students from universities, research centers, and advanced secondary schools from around the world.
In another notable achievement for the school, nine teams from Roots IVY Gandhara H-8 Campus reached the global finals of the World Artificial Intelligence Championship for the Youth, including teams from the elementary level.
Ma Sha Allah, keep it up team.