Chastin Martel
For South Peace News
Dax Peters and Aryaman Kukreja, students from Prairie River Junior High School (PRJHS) in High Prairie, represented High Prairie School Division (HPSD) at the Peace Country Regional Science Fair held in Peace River on March 18.
Their science project was about two things: ACAI (Artificial Communicative Active Intelligence) and the future of education.
The project took two years of innovation, dedication and hard work, says a news release from HPSD.
ACAI was designed to explore the question, could an AI (Artificial Intelligence) robot assist a real teacher?
Kukreja and Peters designed a classroom support tool that could answer student questions in real time. It was made out of a Raspberry Pi 5 8 GB, a monitor, mouse, keyboard, microphone, speakers, 3D printed parts, and external cables.
Both students fundraised and spent significant time to teach themselves how to code, says the release.
“One of their many technical achievements was teaching the robot how to remove punctuation from its verbal responses,” cites the release.
The robot the students made is stationary, but in the future, Kukreja and Peters are hoping to make it more mobile and responsive to the different grade levels in a school.