WAICY 2022: Official Recap

WAICY 2022: Winners

Not all the prizes are included in the following list

High School Category

 

🥇Gold Award

Owen Welsh, Riley Herchert, Jordan Boldt, Nathaniel Vercammen, Grant Riddle (FishNET AI) – United States 🇺🇸

🥈Silver Award

Naman Doshi, Jaswant Janakiraman Yuvaraj, Minh-Tam Dinh (DermaGraph – Leveraging AI to make skin cancer detection more accessible for all) – Australia 🇦🇺

🥉Bronze Award

Stavros Georgios Piperakis (SignTrack) – Greece 🇬🇷

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Padmaksh Khandelwal (Heart Disease AI Predictor) – India 🇮🇳

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Lucas Chen, Justin Yang, Henry Ji (Meningioma Diagnosis AI) – Australia 🇦🇺

🏆AI Excellence

Stelios Antoniadis, George Chainis, Nick Chalazonitis (Deus Ex Machina) – Greece 🇬🇷

🏆Impact Excellence

Efstratios Rallis, Vyronas Trikkalidis (Jam Clogger) – Greece 🇬🇷

🏆Design Excellence

Aaron Li, Jiayu Fan, Ambrose Luo, Joey Wang (RecyLink) – United States 🇺🇸

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Middle School Category

 

🥇Gold Award

Paarth Aggarwal, Nittant Moudgil (Fly-tipping – the predator to the environment and economy) – United Kingdom 🇬🇧

🥈Silver Award

Kaavya Majumder (Nudge) – India 🇮🇳

🥉Bronze Award

Emily Tse, Eric Zhou, Jonathan Dang, Andy Yucheng Jiang (AI Determining Hand Gesture Meanings in Different Countries) – Australia 🇦🇺

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Manika Jhaveri (Disarming Global Warming) – India 🇮🇳

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Anuj Bharadwaj (Pest detector) – India 🇮🇳

🏆AI Excellence

Reyner Elazaro Tampubolon (Clean News) – Indonesia 🇮🇩

🏆Impact Excellence

Faith Abe Tanaya (AI Flood Detector) – Indonesia 🇮🇩

🏆Design Excellence

Antonios Gardelinos, Aris Tsolakis, Ioli Tsolaki, Iasonas Ioannidis (Fire Patrol) – Greece 🇬🇷

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Elementary School Category

 

🥇Gold Award

Jawaher Abdulla Al Amri, Hoor Al Blooshi, Dana Al Marzooqi (Drive Assist (AI Model)) – UAE 🇦🇪

🥈Silver Award

Nusaybah Noor Syed, Eshaal Maryam Khan, Urwah Syed (AI Guidance System (AGS App))- Pakistan 🇵🇰

🥉Bronze Award

James Shepherd Yang (Hey, Sit Up! (heysitup.com)) – United States 🇺🇸

4th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

McKenna Felton, Mahi Sharma, Chris Derlokov, Shrikari Punjala (Preschool Pickup) – United States 🇺🇸

5th Place Recognition (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Aaryan Kothari (AI – Deepfake Detector) – India 🇮🇳

🏆AI Excellence

Lara Alexandra Van Steen (Hazel’s Donations) – Singapore 🇸🇬

🏆Impact Excellence

Palaksi Agrawal (Rita Chatbot) – India 🇮🇳

🏆Design Excellence

Mokshesh Chakilam, Mohammed Ahyanuddin (AI Cap for Visually Impaired) – India 🇮🇳

Outstanding Research Award (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Aditya Dewan (SPRKD – Leveraging Teacher Loss Landscape Traversals to Improve Knowledge Distillation via Saddle Point Region Approximation.) – Canada 🇨🇦

Outstanding Coach Awards

Vladimir Tosic – Australia 🇦🇺

Antonius Juniadhi Soekendar – Indonesia 🇮🇩

Andreas Karampelas – Greece 🇬🇷

Outstanding Organization Awards

KAUST Academy – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Outstanding WAICY Volunteer Awards (Special 5th WAICYCategory)

Haotian Fang – China 🇨🇳

Chrysa Vamvaka – Greece 🇬🇷

Outstanding WAICY Judge Awards (Special 5th WAICY Category)

Vladislav Slavov – Bulgeria 🇧🇬

Marco Neves – Portugal 🇵🇹

Amalia-Christina Toutziaridi – Greece 🇬🇷

David Huang – United States 🇺🇸

WAICY 2022 – Winning Projects

Artificial Intelligence & Technology Criteria

 

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.

 

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.