{"id":209263,"date":"2026-02-02T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/montana-high-schools-colleges-prepare-students-to-work-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:45:11","slug":"montana-high-schools-colleges-prepare-students-to-work-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/montana-high-schools-colleges-prepare-students-to-work-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana High Schools, Colleges Prepare Students to Work With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montana High Schools, Colleges Prepare Students to Work With AI<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-02 15:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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(TNS) \u2014 Whether it\u2019s middle schoolers at Code Girls United or students at Flathead Valley Community College, young people of all ages are being introduced to ways to utilize artificial intelligence \u2014 as well as how to think critically when using it.<\/p>\n

At the Code Girls United office in Kalispell, founder and Executive Director Marianne Smith savored her last moments of quiet before students showed up for an after-school lesson.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the last day teams could submit projects for the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge, in which students create use AI in an app or website to address challenges they see in their community.<\/p>\n


\u201cI’m very calm right now, but if you talked to me this morning, I would have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n

Code Girls United is a nonprofit that provides free after-school programming for girls in grades four through 12 in Montana. In the first half of the school year, students learn the basics of computer science and then in the second half put that knowledge toward a service project.<\/p>\n

Near-deadline chaos isn\u2019t new at Code Girls as the organization participates in many national challenges, but the latest challenge is part of a larger effort by Code Girls United to incorporate more education into its programming about AI, including its new AI Academy.<\/p>\n

Smith said the current landscape with AI reminds her of the rise of the Internet. Just as there needed to be guidelines for how young people interact with the World Wide Web, she believes kids need to understand the best ways to use AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is not always right. It\u2019s a tool and you need to be a responsible user. And right now, that’s not the way it is. We’re not paying attention and not teaching them a framework for it. I think that’s the part right now that’s really missing and that’s the void we’re trying to fill with our AI Academy,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence…<\/p>\n

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