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.
Artificial intelligence is moving into education, engineering and biotechnology, but each field asks different questions about usefulness and responsibility. In the Naučíme AI podcast, I discussed how people can work with AI without reducing the subject to a single chatbot. The conversation connects university teaching, company adoption and interdisciplinary research through practical examples.
Programming competitions give children a reason to explain how an idea became a working project. At the final of the eighth Škrábej, kotě! competition at Centrum robotiky in Plzeň, I served on the jury and enjoyed listening to girls and boys talk about their first steps in programming. I am curious whether I will meet some of them again one day at AimtecHackathon.
Hackathons give teams a concentrated space to turn ideas into working prototypes with support from experienced mentors. At the 10th AimtecHackathon in 2026, I again mentored teams working with AI, LLMs, local models, speech recognition and synthesis, language technologies, and Python. The weekend also highlighted the sustained work of Petra Šteklová, Jiří Dobrý, and the Aimtec team in supporting Plzeň's hacker community.
Public discussion about AI helps separate practical changes from predictions and gives education, work and responsibility a shared frame. On 3 December 2025, I joined the Debate with Respekt at Moving Station in Pilsen with Marek Ruttner and Dominika Perlínová. The later Respekt podcast preserves the conversation about large language models, changes in human activity and possible directions of AI development.
