WORLD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION FOR YOUTH

WAICY 2023

at Penn State

A global competition where students learn about and use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to solve real problems.

Penn State New Kensington Digital Foundry | 9am – 3pm, 2nd December, 2023

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 WAICY 2023: Penn State

We are thrilled at Penn State to be selected as the United States host for the World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY).  The competition aligns with the university’s goals of enhancing student success, increasing land-grant impact, and fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.  AI and future readiness for learners, especially high school students exploring new pathways, is exactly what we should be doing, and we are doing it with innovative partnerships such as WAICY.

Agenda:

9:00-12:00

Student work time on site at the Digital Foundry (Penn State staff will be available to help facilitate student projects)

12:30-1:00

Lunch

1:00-3:00

Student presentations and judging

Who can participate:

High school students

Competition Tracks

AI Showcase Track

Create a project that showcases an AI solution for a real-world problem.

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AI Generated Art Track

Based on this year’s theme, create artworks using text-to-image AI models like DALL∙E 2, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion.

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AI Large Language Model Track

 Instruct the AI to adopt a specific domain of expertise using popular AI Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, Bard AI, and others.

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*Note: teams interested in the AI Showcase Track should start their projects prior to the day of the competition, as you will not have enough time on December 2nd to start and complete your Showcase project