Welcome to the 2026 AI-Athon! Learning together to solve healthcare problems
The AI-Athon connects Rhode Island high-school students, teachers, clinicians, and data scientists to explore AI in healthcare, including Chatbot use for mental health, prompt engineering, machine learning development and training, pulse oximeters, bias, and more.
MIT Critical Datathon 2023
Built on open science and community collaboration, the 2023 MIT Critical Datathon centered on patient safety through a health-bias free lens. Multidisciplinary teams used open clinical datasets to identify risks and propose improvements that reduce disparities in care.
Brown University HASTE Datathon 2024
By teaming high school students with data science and healthcare communities, we aim to teach that society needs people of diverse cultures and backgrounds to address bias in AI predictions, contribute to a more equitable healthcare system, and mitigate future problems. We hope this datathon will increase student interest in and awareness of related high-paying careers and contribute to broadening participation in the STEM workforce.
Brown University DSAIY Datathon 2025
The Datathon brings together students, teachers, data scientists, and healthcare professionals to collaborate on real-world healthcare AI and machine learning challenges. This unique, multigenerational event emphasizes bias in AI, and cross-disciplinary teamwork to inspire future STEM leaders and build a more inclusive future.
DSAIY Datathon 2026
Join us for two days of intergenerational exploration of Chatbot use for mental health. Team up with Rhode Island high school students and mentors (teachers, clinicians, data scientists and mental health experts) to learn how AI works, its strengths and weaknesses. High school students need no prior knowledge and mentors include undergraduate and graduate students in related fields.
What to Expect
Work in teams to learn how Chatbots work
Mini-workshops and fun activities led by young scientists, engineers and medical students
Prompt engineering, app building and exploration to categorize and predict prompt sentiments
High school and undergraduate panels to discuss AI promise and fallibility
Networking and feedback with lots of raffle prizes for all participants
Bus transportation for up to four groups of students coming from the same school with their teacher(s)
Continental breakfast and lunch included
No registration fees!
Student and Parent Information
High school student safety is our priority!
All mentors interacting with students at the datathon must pass a background check and receive minor protection training through Brown University.
The AI-Athon is funded by the National Science Foundation Award #2517189. We are interested in knowing whether short-terms events like the AI-Athon improve student AI understanding and increase their awareness of and interest in related careers. To do so, we will give all participants a pre and post survey for which we must have parent/guardian permission.
Click on the buttons below to learn more and download the forms to sign.
All program researchers received HIPAA and minor protection training to ensure high school student safety.
Mentor and Teacher Information
Thank you for your interest in becoming an AI-Athon Mentor!
Our past events prove that mentors are critical for student understanding, engagement, and career interest.
Mentors include undergraduate and graduate students, fellows, residents, doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, data scientists, researchers, computer scientists, and more!
We need data scientists to guide the team through data organization and visualization while building and testing predictive models and working with Chatbots and prompts.
We need clinicians to assess Chatbot diagnosis validity when teams modify medical scenarios to their way of writing.
We need psychiatrists and psychologists to support teams in ensuring no private or potentially harmful information is shared during collaboration.
All mentors interacting with students at the AI-Athon must pass a background check and receive minor protection training through Brown University. Please click the buttons below for more information, and let us know if you have any questions.
Please complete and sign the multimedia release form (button below) to upload when you register.
Coming Soon! Research Results.
Do these events make a difference for high school student understanding of how AI works and their interest in related careers? We’ll post our results and conclusions in summer, 2026.
This work is supported by the NSF ITEST Program DRL-2517189. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.