The World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY) is a global competition challenging students to learn and use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to solve real problems.
The competition opens to students from Grade 4 to 12 from all around the world. Each year, the competition has a unique theme. In 2018, the theme was “how to make the world better with AI”.
The WAICY aims to bring AI to students all around the world and spark creative, innovative, and artistic demonstrations of the technology that is able to make a change to the future.
Bricknowland have joined hands with Ready AI and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science to host the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY 2019) at regional and national level in U.A.E and U.S.A
The Process
5-Day Workshop and Regional Competition →4-Day Advanced Workshop →1-Day World Competition (WAICY)
5-Day Workshop and Regional Competition
Bricknowland provides toolkits and curriculum for students to prepare for the competition. During this five day workshop, students can learn about the concepts of AI and the 6 aspects of AI that’s been defined by the top AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon Universities.
By the end of the workshop, students can be able to use tools like Cozmo to program and compete. The winning teams will be selected for the 4-Day national level advanced workshop and world level competition.
Locations:
Al Diyafah High School, Al Nahda, Dubai
Horizon Interntaional School, Umm Al Sheif, Dubai
Time: 9AM – 1PM
5-Day Workshop: July 7-11, July 14-18
4-Day Advanced Workshop: July 21-24
Fee per team: AED 2950
1-Day World Competition (WAICY)
The final competition takes place at the end of July each year. WAICY 2019 will be held on 25th July 2019 in U.A.E. During the one day competition, the judges will overview all the selected works from national-finals.
How to Join
Register your team of 2 to 4 participants for the workshop at any of our locations this Summer.
Age
8+
Price
Fee per team: 2950 AED
Telephone number
+971 52 2117247
+971 4 3470660
Links
Address
DubaiOffice 01, Al Barsha Building, Hessa Street, Al Barsha 3