How These Students Have Used AI to Solve Real-World Problems

AI and technology 🤝 Helping students learn

The article is in partnership with Samsung Solve for Tomorrow. 

Think AI is just ChatGPT? Think again.

AI is an amazing bit of technology that can be used to help students and teachers alike with studying, researching, finding sources, putting together lesson plans and more.

It’s less about using AI to answer test questions or write your assignment (which you shouldn’t do!) But there are so many things that can be done with AI today to help different issues. As it continues to evolve to help more people with menial tasks or helping them understand a topic better, there’s no denying its impact.

Don’t believe us? Check out these brilliant minds who won Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow 2024 competition. They came up with an idea that combined technology with education using AI to help students and teachers.

The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition combines STEM skills, creativity, collaborative teamwork and critical thinking to bring genius ideas to life.

Turning past exam papers into accessible question banks.

Bradley Cox and co-founder Jason Zhong wanted to create a platform that could help fix challenges with traditional education methods and no real centralised resources tailored for different learning styles.

Combining evolving tech with education resources already available, their platform called Exam Insights put past exam papers into easy to access question banks – created specifically for Year 12 QLD external exams.

Harnessing the power or AI has allowed them to process questions from other states, meaning they can empower classrooms everywhere and make it easier to both teach and study for end-of-year exams.  

We spoke to Bradley about how he came up with the idea from entering the Solve for Tomorrow competition in 2023 to working on their application for 2024.

“So last year we helped 22,000 students and educators”, he said to Student Edge.

“This year, my goal is 100,000 which I see being very feasible because last year I got to the point where we’re just the go-to because we provide so much value for nothing.

“And that’s at the heart of everything we’re trying to do.”

Using AI to tailor to different learning styles.

Harnessing AI to help students with different learning styles is exactly something that 16-year-old Shuwei Guo has thought about, creating a personalised education platform called Enlight. This free, AI-powered short-form platform was designed to make learning both fun and interesting by tailoring to different knowledge levels and learning types.

Enlight works by using AI to create short-form educational content. The AI adapts content delivery by adjusting language and examples to suit different learning styles, such as providing technical explanations for engineers and intuitive examples for artists.

He plans to further add a 24/7 AI chatbot for immediate clarification and support during learning sessions and partner with learning course brands like Coursera, EdX and Khan Academy to make sure students are getting high-quality learning content.

Shuwei told Samsung “I was inspired to tackle educational inequality … something imperative to my design and iteration processes was making a product that you and your friends would genuinely and consistently use – not ‘just’ another mediocre GPT wrapper.”

He also wants to focus on community impact and inclusivity by working with local schools, libraries and community centres so everyone can have access.

Have you got an idea to help an issue or improve an aspect of your community? Combine your STEM, critical thinking and creative skills to go in the running to win a $10,000 prize and fund your next brilliant idea.

Entries close 25 July, and you can find out more here.

T&Cs apply. Entry is limited to Australian residents aged 14 – 24 years old. Initial applications open 12:00PM (AEST) Tuesday, 19 June 2025 and close 11:59PM (AEST) Friday, 25 July 2025. Full promotion period will run from 12:00PM (AEST), Tuesday 19 June 2025 to 11:59 PM (AEST), Friday, 26 September 2025.