Puning holds second youth AI science practice competition with 405 participants

Puning City held its second Youth Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Practice Competition from September 19 to 20, 2026, with the opening ceremony at Yucai School. The event was co-hosted by the city's science association, education bureau and science and technology bureau, drawing 54 teams and 405 participants over two days. It kept the digital intelligence robot competition and added the Xintu Smart Delivery and Interstellar Voyage intelligent robot challenges, covering multiple school stages.

This is a youth AI competition co-hosted by local government departments, with 54 teams and 405 participants across multiple school stages, and it explicitly moves the competition format toward independent programming. Such events provide a practice and assessment setting for AI education in primary and secondary schools, and reflect how local resources are directed toward cultivating science and technology talent. The public information covers only event organization and competition categories, with no independent research or quantitative results on learning outcomes. Provides an AI programming and robotics practice platform for primary, secondary and vocational students in Puning across multiple school stages. The shift toward independent programming in competition categories may lead schools to add more programming content to courses and training.