AIStars Competition 2021
When: July 31st- Aug 7th, 2021
Deadline to Register: July 15th
AI will create the future. Who will create AI?
Artificial Intelligence is all around us and growing rapidly. The AI market is expected to be 190B in 2025 with AI in every industry and used in many jobs.
To help kids worldwide learn AI, we at AIClub are launching AIStars, for kids from ages 8-18 imagine the future with AI, build innovative projects, get guidance from expert mentors, and become part of a worldwide community of innovators.
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Why compete? You can have fun and build cool AI apps, learn from mentors and speakers, and meet other kids! You can use your project learnings in STEM fairs or other competitions, and showcase your project as an impressive accomplishment for college applications.
AIStars Competition Pitching Session 2021
AIStars Competition 2021
Winner
AIStars Competition 2021
Second Place
AIStars Competition 2021
Third Place
Agenda (Pacific Standard Time)
30th July Friday
8:15 PM - 8:30 PM
30th July Friday
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
31st July Saturday
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
31st July Saturday
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
31st July Saturday
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
31st July Saturday
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
31st July Saturday
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
31st July Saturday
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
31st July Saturday
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
1st August Sunday
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
1st August Sunday
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
1st August Sunday
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
1st August Sunday
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Welcome
Dr. Nisha Talagala (CEO AIClub)
Keynote - Experiences with Entrepreneurship
Dr. Amit Gupta (Head of Products - Pyxeda.ai)
Test Run Competition Chat Rooms
Sindhu
Training Session 1: Ideation - Deciding on a problem
Nisha Talagala
Speaker 1
Nithya Ruff
Design Thinking
Saloni Mohapatra
Break
Mixer
Get to know each other
Training Session 2: Introduction to AI
Sindhu Ghanta
Speaker 1
Dr Manjari Jain
Training Session 3: Pitching your Solution
Nisha Talagala
Speaker 2
Sarah Haq
Training Session 4: Website Building
AIClub
1st August Sunday
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
1st August Sunday
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
1st August Sunday
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Break
Speaker 3
Megan Branch
Training Session 5: Building an App
Sindhu Ghanta
Agenda (Indian Standard Time)
31st July Saturday
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
31st July Saturday
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
31st July Saturday
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
31st July Saturday
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
31st July Saturday
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
31st July Saturday
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
31st July Saturday
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
31st July Saturday
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
31st July Saturday
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
1st August Sunday
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
1st August Sunday
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
1st August Sunday
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
1st August Sunday
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
1st August Sunday
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Welcome
Dr. Nisha Talagala (CEO AIClub)
Keynote - Experiences with Entrepreneurship
Dr. Amit Gupta (Head of Products - Pyxeda.ai)
Test Run Competition Chat Rooms
Sindhu Ghanta
Training Session 1: Ideation - Deciding on a problem
Nisha Talagala
Mixer
Get to know each other
Design Thinking
Saloni Mohapatra
Break
Bit Health and AI
Nana
Training Session 2: Introduction to AI
Yamuna Dulanjani
Speaker 1
Nithya Ruff (Video)
Training Session 3: Pitching your Solution
Nisha Talagala
Speaker 2
Dr. Manjari Jain
Training Session 4: Website Building
Amit Gupta
Break
1st August Sunday
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
1st August Sunday
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Speaker 3
Sarah Haq
Training Session 5: Building an App
Yamuna Dulanjani
Here is the AIClub competition Rubric (Scoring guide)
Agenda and Timeline
19th April
15th July
Registration Ends
Registration Starts
31st July and 1st August
Live Event Days
2nd-6th August
Teams Collaborate
with mentor guidance
7th August
Pitch/Demo Day
8th August
Winners Announced
Competiton Schedule
The competition will feature inspiring guest speakers and hands-on learning sessions to help you brainstorm, design, and build your AI-powered app!
After the kick-off, each team will have one week to build your app, with guidance from expert mentors.
Competition will conclude with Pitch Presentations and Prize Awards
Learning Sessions
Ideation: Deciding on a problem
Learn how to brainstorm, research and decide on a problem
July 31st
Introduction to AI
Learn what Artificial Intelligence is and how to build one
July 31st
Design Thinking
Learn how to design your solution and make it user-friendly
July 31st
Building a Website
Learn how to build a website for your solution
August 1st
Building an App
Learn how to build an app for your solution
August 1s
Pitching your solution
Learn how to pitch your solution to the judges
August 1st
Prizes
Each team will submit a pitch deck describing their idea and prototype. Each team will also have an opportunity to present their idea to our international panel of expert judges.
More information about the judges and the judging rubric will be made available shortly.
FIRST PRIZE
For every team member, a $100 gift card and a full year of courses from AIClub
Mentoring from Silicon Valley experts to continue your app!
SECOND PRIZE
For every team member, a $50 gift card and a full year of courses from AIClub
THIRD PRIZE
For every team member, a $25 gift card and. a full year of courses from AIClub
Judges
Christine Santos - CEO EPIC Generation
Christine Santos is a Children’s TV Producer, Educator, Kids’ Life Coach and Video Journalist.
She has a BA in Psychology and is a Certified Common Sense Media Educator and WISDOM Coach™️.
Prior to Media and Broadcasting, she had an extensive career in Human Resources in various industries. In 2019, she left the corporate world to pursue her passion in empowering kids, and established EPIC Generation, a media production and leadership training academy for kids.
She is currently working on some film projects and is nominated for Excellence Award in Media in the upcoming Golden Balangay Awards in Canada.
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Angela Lau
Entrepreneur
Angela Lau is an experienced product professional and entrepreneur. She constantly thinks about using data science and machine learning to build products that solve real-world problems and delight users. As a builder at heart and engineer by training, Angela loves to roll up her sleeves and be hands-on to solve problems. She was a former startup founder, software engineer, product manager at major technology companies, such as Apple and Oracle. She is currently working on a computer vision AI project for occupational ergonomic assessments.
Angela graduated from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. She also holds an MBA degree at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.
Deepika Sikri
Sr Director of Engineering Sleep
Number Labs
Deepika Sikri - is the Sr. Director of Engineering at Sleepnumber Labs. She has 19 years of experience in software engineering, solving problem and making software development “hum”. In her current role, she is engineering the next generation IoT and AI in connected healthcare space. She has forged a signature style of enquiry which blends hard data and rigorous analysis with concrete solutions and on-the-ground action. A strong believer in the limitless power of science and technology, she walks her talk by educating, coaching and mentoring young minds and believes this is the best gift to growing society. She coaches middle schoolers on STEM and Robotics and has been speaker in multiple conferences.
Danika Gupta - Student Judge
Danika is a rising 8th grader at the Harker School in San Jose CA. She has been building AI and code projects for several years with her friends and teams.
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