Melania Trump Urges Children to Embrace AI as Nvidia Announces Major Education Investment

First lady Melania Trump encouraged elementary school students to embrace artificial intelligence Tuesday as she announced a new partnership with Nvidia aimed at bringing AI education and robotics technology into North Carolina classrooms.

During a visit to Mountain View Elementary School in Jefferson, North Carolina, the first lady said children should learn how to use rapidly developing AI technology rather than fear it. She argued that preparing young Americans for an increasingly technology-driven economy will be essential to maintaining the country’s competitiveness.

Trump said the United States needs to remain a global leader in artificial intelligence and emphasized that students should receive guidance as they learn to use the technology. She acknowledged the need for vigilance while maintaining that AI will play an important role in their futures.

As part of the initiative, Nvidia will provide four-year subscriptions to the AI-powered StudyFetch learning platform for 1,500 students across the Ashe County School District. The company is also donating 100 Jetson Nano Developer Kits that students can use to experiment with robotics and other AI-related projects.

The investment is being carried out in partnership with Trump’s Be Best initiative and expands her broader effort to promote technology education for children. She has increasingly made AI literacy one of the central issues of her second tenure as first lady.

Trump toured classrooms where students demonstrated technology-focused projects involving robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing. She encouraged the children to experiment with the new tools and challenged them to use AI to create things that have never been built before.

“Dream big and use these AI tools to build something never created before,” Trump told the students. She joked that one of them might create the next major robot and invited students to bring their inventions to the White House if they succeeded.

Her visit comes amid a growing national debate over the benefits and potential dangers of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems. Researchers and technology executives have raised concerns about AI safety, while policymakers are debating how extensively the emerging industry should be regulated.

The first lady has previously called for a balance between technological optimism and caution. During an international technology initiative earlier this year, she argued that children must be prepared for an AI-driven future while governments, parents and educators remain attentive to potential risks.

Tuesday’s announcement expands that effort by putting AI tools directly into the hands of students in a rural school district. Trump said the goal is to ensure American children develop the technological skills necessary for the future while helping the United States remain at the forefront of the global AI race.