AI education becomes tangible when secondary-school students can develop their own solutions and defend them in front of an expert jury. The national final of the Czech AI Olympiad brought this energy to the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Plzeň on 22 June 2026. As an AI ambassador, I guided accompanying teachers around the faculty, gave them a lecture on AI in education and later joined the Public Administration jury.

The Czech AI Olympiad gives secondary-school students a nationwide setting for working with real AI tasks, presenting their solutions and responding to questions from a jury. Its national final took place at the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Plzeň.

In my role as an AI ambassador, I guided the teachers accompanying the finalists around the faculty. We visited the Department of Cybernetics showroom, looked at Plzeň from the terrace and went behind the scenes in the data centre.

Czech AI Olympiad website showing the national final in Plzeň on 22 June 2026

After the tour, I gave the teachers a lecture titled AI in Education. I built on the practical experience described in AI in teaching: what works and where the limits are, including the use of generative AI and speech technologies in university courses. The companion programme created space for the teachers to explore the faculty while the student teams concentrated on their competition tasks.

I then joined the jury for the Public Administration track together with Tereza Vodičková from prg.ai and Tomáš Rychlík from ARICOMA. The role brought me back to the student projects and their public presentations from a different perspective.

Thank you to Pavel König and the entire nvias team for organising the event. Seeing AI attract so many secondary-school students to the faculty made me genuinely happy. I look forward to meeting some of them again one day as students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Two speakers in front of a Czech AI Olympiad projection at the Faculty of Applied Sciences
The national final of the Czech AI Olympiad at the Faculty of Applied Sciences on 22 June 2026.

Links

  • Czech AI Olympiad: Competition format, progression rounds, national final and route to the international AI olympiads.
  • Companion programme: Schedule of the faculty tour and lectures prepared for teachers accompanying the finalists.
  • AI in teaching: what works and where the limits are: A practical account of my use of generative AI, speech recognition and a course-specific tutor in teaching.
  • nvias: Organiser of the Czech AI Olympiad and educational programmes for young technical talent.