AI Innovation Challenge 2025 - City Tech & Google

Issued on 16 Oct 2025 by

City Tech Microcredentials

Awarded to participants of the "Innovate City Tech in a Day" event, held on October 3, 2025, at Google’s Hudson Street campus. Recipients distinguished themselves through creativity, teamwork, and technical proficiency by developing AI-driven prototype solutions to real-world challenges in collaboration with Google engineers and City Tech faculty. During the event, students explored a variety of Google AI platforms and worked in teams to identify campus or university issues that could be addressed using AI. With guidance from Google architects and City Tech faculty, participants built prototypes of their solutions and presented them to a panel of faculty, staff, and Google judges.

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Issuer

City Tech Microcredentials

microcredentials@citytech.cuny.edu

City Tech Microcredentials is an innovative extension of City Tech that enhances career readiness and professional skills through its role as a digital credentials platform. City Tech Microcredentials issues digital badges that represent verified competencies and are highly valued in today’s job market. It systematically records skills at a resume-ready level, giving learners credible evidence of their achievements and simplifying the process of validating their skills, knowledge, and competencies. This initiative connects academic knowledge with practical skills, demonstrating our commitment to developing skilled, adaptable students equipped to navigate the modern economy.

Criteria

Earners of this badge have:

Distinguished themselves through creativity, teamwork, and technical proficiency by developing AI-driven prototype solutions to real-world challenges in collaboration with Google engineers and City Tech faculty.
Explored a variety of Google AI platforms and worked in teams to identify campus or university issues that could be addressed using AI.
Built prototypes of their solutions, with guidance from Google architects and City Tech faculty, and presented them to a panel of faculty, staff, and Google judges.