Safe AI Winners
TechNova
International School of Creative Science – Nad Al Sheba
Air Math — a gesture-based AI platform that lets students write and draw math problems in the air using a webcam. Powered by Google Gemini AI, OpenCV, and the Desmos API, it tracks hand movements in real time to deliver step-by-step solutions, interactive graphs, and quizzes.
LAZR
Pristine Private School – Dubai
EduCycle — an AI-powered UAE initiative that lets students, teachers, and families swap textbooks at smart hubs, through an app that matches donors with recipients and awards “Knowledge Coins” for school supplies. It advances education, the circular economy, and climate action by cutting CO2 emissions, breaking even in 1.5 years with a projected 7.5 million AED profit by year five.
ATS AI Innovators
Applied Technology School – Abu Dhabi
AI Classroom Mood Detection System — a privacy-first, real-time solution that reads student emotions using DeepFace and OpenCV to turn facial expressions into classroom well-being scores, processing everything in-memory with zero stored images or names. Built on “Green AI” principles, it runs directly in the browser without heavy servers.
Al Noor Innovators
Noor International Schools – Sharjah
Lumi — an AI-powered adaptive learning platform that automatically personalizes lessons for each student, empowering teachers to deliver inclusive, accessible, and engaging lessons while preserving the original lesson’s core objectives.
GenAI Innovators
Shaml Boys’ School – Ras Al Khaimah
An AI-powered platform that automatically generates diverse electronic exams from educational content, with instant and accurate grading — including essay questions — that simplifies exam management for teachers. It ensures secure, fair assessment through advanced anti-cheating features such as tab-switching, copy-paste, and screen-capture prevention.
EduPioneers
Umm Al Quwain School (Cycle 2, Girls)
SkillSwap Projects — an AI-powered platform that connects students with complementary skills to turn creative ideas into reality, matching users by shared project goals, forming structured teams, and issuing a “Project Passport” to document contributions, plus an innovative timebank system for exchanging support without financial barriers.
Team Kanban
Al Ain University – Abu Dhabi
BridgeLab AI — a bilingual generative-AI troubleshooting assistant for STEM education and lab safety. It analyzes uploaded media of electronics or robotics setups using computer vision to detect errors and provide guided hints, with a teacher dashboard highlighting common class learning gaps.
Syntax Error
American University of Sharjah
Lens — a real-time AI classroom companion that supports students with ADHD and dyslexia by dynamically adapting lectures as they happen, processing live speech to offer personalized learning modes, instant catch-up summaries, and structured notes.
Robusters
American University of Sharjah
A project addressing a critical AI-safety gap by hardening Arabic small language models against jailbreak and adversarial attacks on edge devices, using an automated pipeline to build a high-quality adversarial dataset for preference-based reinforcement fine-tuning — deployed locally via a chatbot UI for stronger data privacy and lower latency.