ย WAICY 2022: Official Recap

WAICY 2022: Winners

Not all the prizes are included in the following list

High School Category

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๐Ÿฅ‡Gold Award

Owen Welsh, Riley Herchert, Jordan Boldt, Nathaniel Vercammen, Grant Riddle (FishNET AI) – United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

๐ŸฅˆSilver Award

Naman Doshi, Jaswant Janakiraman Yuvaraj, Minh-Tam Dinh (DermaGraph – Leveraging AI to make skin cancer detection more accessible for all) – Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

๐Ÿฅ‰Bronze Award

Stavros Georgios Piperakis (SignTrack) – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Padmaksh Khandelwal (Heart Disease AI Predictor) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Lucas Chen, Justin Yang, Henry Ji (Meningioma Diagnosis AI) – Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

๐Ÿ†AI Excellence

Stelios Antoniadis, George Chainis, Nick Chalazonitis (Deus Ex Machina) – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

๐Ÿ†Impact Excellence

Efstratios Rallis, Vyronas Trikkalidis (Jam Clogger) – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

๐Ÿ†Design Excellence

Aaron Li, Jiayu Fan, Ambrose Luo, Joey Wang (RecyLink) – United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Middle School Category

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๐Ÿฅ‡Gold Award

Paarth Aggarwal, Nittant Moudgil (Fly-tipping – the predator to the environment and economy) – United Kingdom ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

๐ŸฅˆSilver Award

Kaavya Majumder (Nudge) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

๐Ÿฅ‰Bronze Award

Emily Tse, Eric Zhou, Jonathan Dang, Andy Yucheng Jiang (AI Determining Hand Gesture Meanings in Different Countries) – Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Manika Jhaveri (Disarming Global Warming) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Anuj Bharadwaj (Pest detector) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

๐Ÿ†AI Excellence

Reyner Elazaro Tampubolon (Clean News) – Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ

๐Ÿ†Impact Excellence

Faith Abe Tanaya (AI Flood Detector) – Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ

๐Ÿ†Design Excellence

Antonios Gardelinos, Aris Tsolakis, Ioli Tsolaki, Iasonas Ioannidis (Fire Patrol) – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

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Elementary School Category

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๐Ÿฅ‡Gold Award

Jawaher Abdulla Al Amri, Hoor Al Blooshi, Dana Al Marzooqi (Drive Assist (AI Model)) – UAE ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช

๐ŸฅˆSilver Award

Nusaybah Noor Syed, Eshaal Maryam Khan, Urwah Syed (AI Guidance System (AGS App))- Pakistan ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ

๐Ÿฅ‰Bronze Award

James Shepherd Yang (Hey, Sit Up! (heysitup.com)) – United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

McKenna Felton, Mahi Sharma, Chris Derlokov, Shrikari Punjala (Preschool Pickup) – United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Aaryan Kothari (AI – Deepfake Detector) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

๐Ÿ†AI Excellence

Lara Alexandra Van Steen (Hazelโ€™s Donations) – Singapore ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ

๐Ÿ†Impact Excellence

Palaksi Agrawal (Rita Chatbot) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

๐Ÿ†Design Excellence

Mokshesh Chakilam, Mohammed Ahyanuddin (AI Cap for Visually Impaired) – India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Outstanding Research Award (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Aditya Dewan (SPRKD โ€“ Leveraging Teacher Loss Landscape Traversals to Improve Knowledge Distillation via Saddle Point Region Approximation.) – Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Outstanding Coach Awards

Vladimir Tosic – Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

Antonius Juniadhi Soekendar – Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ

Andreas Karampelas – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

Outstanding Organization Awards

KAUST Academy – Saudi Arabia ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Outstanding WAICY Volunteer Awards (Special 5th WAICYCategory)

Haotian Fang – China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Chrysa Vamvaka – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

Outstanding WAICY Judge Awards (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Vladislav Slavov – Bulgeria ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ

Marco Neves – Portugal ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น

Amalia-Christina Toutziaridi – Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

David Huang – United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

WAICY 2022 – Winning Projects

Artificial Intelligence & Technology Criteria

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Artificial Intelligence

WAICY, at its core, is an AI competition. The first thing that we look for is the use of AI’s abilities in your project and a thorough understanding of what it means.

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Technical Skills

Technical skills matter because they support the project execution. Does your project involve coding? Do you have a robust understanding of what you’ve built? Make sure you’re ready to answer these questions.

Design & Impact Criteria

Design

The project should consider the user experience of the proposed AI solution.

Problem statement

The project should have an impact of on the community at large.

AI Ethics

The team understands the positive & negative consequences of the project.

Originality

The project is unique and is built on an original idea.

Presentation

The team is able to articulate ideas and its impact clearly with enthusiasm.