Winners Announcement
Congratulations on your extraordinary achievements in WAICY 2023! Your hard work, creativity, and passion set a high standard in this global competition.
Gold Award
Scribe AI (Tianyi Huang & Richard Xiong) United States
Silver Award
CoralGuard AI – Using AI Image Detection to Identify Coral Diseases and Provide Treatment Plans (Dhahran Ahliyya Schools) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
VexID (Malcolm Smith) United States
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
A Gamified Grammar Education Experience (Dhahran Ahliyya Schools ) Saudi Arabia
5th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Silver Sync (Anda Xie) United States
AI Excellence
HarBot (Vassilis Perrotis, Dimitris Toumpezoglou) Greece
Impact Excellence
Drive Beyond (Sirgaliyev Alikhan Kuandykovich, Kerimberdiyeva Medina, Yan Ulan Serikuly, Mustafina Aizhan) Kazakhstan
Design Excellence
Risk-assessment tool for Learning Disorders (Spurti Nimbali) India
Gold Award
Grand Canyon Family Trip (Albert Tang) United States
Silver Award
The Joys of Family (Arina E. – NEOM Community School) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
I’ve Come Very Far (William Liang) United States
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Joys of Family (Jophy Lin) United States
Gold Award
AIXL – AI financial manager to assist startup & serial entrepreneurs (Yasser A., Abdulelah H., Khaled L., Raed T. – Dhahran Ahliyya Schools) Saudi Arabia
Silver Award
AIRanger (Yuekai (Kevin) Wang, Sarina Feng, Wenqian (Nancy) Chen, Joshua Edwards) United States
Bronze Award
BiteBuddy AI (Stylianos Nikolaos (Stelios) Antoniadis, Georgios Chainis, Nikolaos Chalazonitis) Greece
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Saudi Travel Guide (Jood A., Ghaliah A., Maryam S. – Dhahran Ahliyya Schools) Saudi Arabia
Gold Award
FarmElement-Big Tech for small farms (Rishikesh Sankaran) United States
Silver Award
AI COUNSELLING (Adelle Nazareth) India
Bronze Award
Calscan (Madac Academy) Saudi Arabia
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
SCAN – (Skin Cancer Assessment Network) (MISK Schools) Saudi Arabia
5th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Feed Me Smart (Alex Tang, Jonathan Han, Andy Liang, Junpeng(Mario) Zhao) United States
AI Excellence
FarmElement-Big Tech for small farms (Rishikesh Sankaran) United States
Impact Excellence
Hazel (Tamilore Peniel Omole, Oghenetega Bina Tejiri, MFONISO PRINCESS JACOB, Uzoma Sochikammara Favour, Aruoriwo Asakpoku) Nigeria
Design Excellence
Bio-Bot (MISK Schools) Saudi Arabia
Gold Award
Ronny-AI Project (George Hadjidamianou) Greece
Silver Award
Harmony in Nature: My Family’s Joyful Forest Adventure (Suri Li) United States
Bronze Award
The Joys of Family- Family Memory at Universal Studios (Saarth Vaghasia) India
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
The Joys of Family (Aarna Rathi) India
Gold Award
rAIna Youth AI Therapist (Ryan Xu, Aidan Addyson, Ethan Sun) United States
Silver Award
WhiskerWise (MISK Schools) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
Alu (MISK Schools) Saudi Arabia
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Triage Nurse Bot (Al Ula Numou Education Center) Saudi Arabia
5th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Diabassist (Vanika Bubna) India
Gold Award
Say HELLO to ASLtranslator IOS & Android Application (Chloe, Jasper, Julie, Vivian of Pythagoras Academy) Canada
Silver Award
Calculate It (NEOM Community School) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
Read4Kids (Winston Ning) United States
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Smart School (Madac Academy) Saudi Arabia
5th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Wound Assist (MISK Schools) Saudi Arabia
AI Excellence
Clean Oceans (Christos Kanellakis) Greece
Impact Excellence
VIRUS VENGEANCE (Aaryan Kothari ) India
Design Excellence
Assist (Isabella Garry) United States
Gold Award
The Joys of Family – Memories and Friendship (Gamar A., Isabella L., Sofia M.,) (NEOM Community School) Saudi Arabia
Silver Award
Family Trip to Sharaan Reserve (AlUla/Numou Education Center) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
The Joys of Family (Aman Baig) Singapore
4th Place Recognition (Special 6th WAICY Category)
Joy of Family (Naomi Yang) United States
Gold Award
Mini Mathematician AI (Aramco School) Saudi Arabia
Silver Award
NEOM AI Assistant (NEOM Community School) Saudi Arabia
Bronze Award
Chess Insight (James Yang) United States
SearchSense – Complexity Aware Web Searching Paradigm (Ruiyi Zhang, Karl Tang-Wang) United States
Somkenechukwu Chukwudera Mamah – Nigeria
Andreas Karampelas – Greece
SDAIA – Saudi Arabia
KAUST – Saudi Arabia
Readiness Institute at Penn State – United States
Beijing Zhonghaiguorun Cultural Development Co. – China
The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools – United States
Ethan Chen – United States
Hamed Jassbi – Portugal
Competition Tracks
Create a project that showcases an AI solution for a real-world problem.
Based on this year’s theme, create artworks using text-to-image AI models like DALL∙E 2, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion.
Instruct the AI to adopt a specific domain of expertise using popular AI Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, Bard AI, and others.
“Through KAUST Academy, KAUST is playing its role in helping meet the ambitious goals of Vision 2030 and transforming the Kingdom into a knowledge-based economy. Artificial Intelligence is one of the core focuses of the Academy, and hosting WAICY at KAUST allows us to encourage the youth and train the future generations of the Kingdom.”
“Not everyone on a WAICY team has to be an avid programmer; kids with an artistic bent also make important contributions.”
“WAICY introduced students to the world of AI, a subject matter that is the most important change force today but is rarely taught in K-12 classrooms. Carnegie Mellon University hosted the first WAICY, and it is an honor to partner with KAUST Academy to celebrate the fifth WAICY.”
“The projects will be evaluated by expert judges from fields such as AI, robotics, and education. The rubric is designed to put equal importance on non-technical aspects such as design and project-based learning, as well as coding. The teams with the highest overall scores were selected to win Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals in each age division. Additionally, categorical awards, The Five Big Ideas, Visual Design, Audio Design, Theme/Message, Preparation, and Delivery, were given to the teams that scored highest in each category. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.”
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