Artificial Intelligence Challenge for Antonian Youth 2024
Winners of the AI-CAY 2024 Competition
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Introduction
The St. Anthony’s College Kandy Old Boys Association USA (SACKOBA-USA) is excited to announce the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Challenge for Antonian Youth 2024 (AI-CAY 2024). This event is organized and supported by the Academic Outreach committee of SACKOBA-USA, in partnership with several academic and industrial entities in the United States. This competition challenges students to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other accessible technology to design a versatile product that recreates the one-hundred-and-seventy-year history of St. Anthony’s College from 1854 through 2024. The form of the final product is kept open, intentionally, to allow for innovative ideas. For example, the final product could be a narrated short movie or a cutting-edge product that uses text, imagery, and virtual reality (VR) in symphonic creativity. Through this challenge Antonian youth will be given an opportunity to take a deep dive into the realm of AI and showcase the possibilities that can be uncovered with currently available tools.
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Task
Your task is to build a creative product that captures the richness of the one-hundred-and-seventy-year history of St. Anthony’s College from 1854 through 2024. The challenge allows Antonian youth to work individually, in pairs, or a small team (maximum 3) to achieve the goal through teamwork, AI tools, learning opportunities, and in coordination with SACKOBA-USA facilitators.
The task is to create a robust and versatile product such as a narrated short movie, or a cutting-edge product that uses text, imagery, and virtual reality (VR) in symphony, to create a unique experience for the end-user.
The aim of this challenge is to design a product that can be memorialized in time and be used in the future by the global Antonian network.
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AI Tools
The participants are encouraged to interact with key facilitators from SACKOBA-USA at various stages of design. Each individual or team will be given 3 tokens they can use to receive assistance from the facilitators, as needed, so they can receive an introduction and access to available AI tools. Such consultations will occur virtually via short Zoom sessions.
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Timeline
The contest timeline spans one month to allow participants to work on the project for 5 weeks and use the sixth week to refine their design before final submission. All submissions will be made through a link provided on sackobausa.com.
April 09, 2024: The Artificial Intelligence Challenge for Antonian Youth 2024 (AI-CAY 2024) is publicized through various venues to all Antonian youth currently in grades 9, 10, 11, 12, and those who sat for A/Ls in February 2024 for the first time.
April 26, 2024: Individuals and teams are identified and connections with facilitators from SACKOBA-USA are established.
April 26-May 31, 2024: Students work on the challenge with permissible assistance from facilitators.
May 31-June 14, 2024: The projects designs are finalized.
June 28, 2024: Final deadline for submission.
July 12, 2024: Winners will be announced.
Baseline and Rules
- Registration deadline for individuals and teams: April 26, 2024.
- Final submission deadline: June 14, 2024
- The maximum length of time for the final product is 5 minutes. The minimum length should be 3 minutes.
- Each team is allowed to use up to three tokens to consult with AI facilitators from SACKOBAUSA during the development phase.
- Contestants can use stock images and videos. The final work product can include watermarks of stock footage. The winning entries will be requested to remove watermarks.
- Contestants can use AI generated images, videos, and voice.
- All final products will be copyrighted to SACKBOBUSA
Prizes
Prizes In recognition of outstanding achievements, we have earmarked the following awards. All amounts are in US$ or the equivalent in SL rupees. Copyrights of all final products will be with SACKOBA-USA. 1st Prize: $500 2nd Prize: $200