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International Digital Story Writing Competition!

"AI and Health" & "COVID-19: Imagine, Create & Share"

Description

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This competition is for primary and secondary students from around the world and it's more than just a competition. To equip students with knowledge and skills to participate competently in this fun and/or meaningful competition, a range of interesting workshops will be offered free for the participants! 

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Objectives

  • Help students learn about AI and be able to relate it to health issues such as COVID-19

  • Help students understand the role of robots in our society

  • Encourage children to share their experience during COVID-19

  • Provide‌ ‌an‌ ‌opportunity‌ ‌to‌ ‌help‌ ‌children‌ ‌deal‌ ‌with‌ ‌COVID-19‌ ‌positively‌

  • Help‌ ‌students‌ ‌develop‌ ‌knowledge‌ ‌and‌ ‌digital‌ ‌skills‌ ‌for‌ ‌reading‌ ‌and‌ ‌writing‌ ‌(in‌ ‌English‌ and‌ ‌the‌ ‌ child’s‌ ‌native‌ ‌language)‌ 

  • Enable children to become global citizens

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Competition Groups

Students will compete in one of the following groups

  • Junior primary group (Age: 5-8)- length approx. 10-20 pages; approx. 20-600 words; pages may include pictures, sound, etc.

  • Senior primary group (Age: 9-12)- length approx. 15-30 pages; approx. 100-700 words; pages may include pictures, sound, etc.

  • Junior Secondary group (Age: 13-15)-length approx. 20-40 pages; approx. 200-800 words; pages may include pictures, sound, other multimedia, etc.

  • Senior Secondary group (Age: 16-18)-length approx. 25-50 pages; approx. 300-1000 words; pages may include pictures, sound, other multimedia, etc.

Details of Competition

  • Registration fee: Entirely FREE!

  • Enrolment period: Oct 15, 2021 (FRI) - Apr 4, 2022 (MON)

  • Digital Writing Tools: Participants may use any online tools to create their own eBooks, such as StoryJumper

  • Language: Students can write the story in their native language first and then get it translated into English later. Or they can do it all in English.  Each participant can only submit one piece of work for the competition. An English version of the participant’s eBook is mandatory.

  • Submission of work:

    • Participants must submit the link to their eBook by filling the submission form (https://forms.gle/Z7DkMEJGkF1b7hTa6 ) on or before Apr 11, 2022 Sat, at 23:59. The eBook link must be accessible without having to log in to any personal account.

    • Participants must submit the link to a text-only Google Docs document of their story for plagiarism checking. 

    • Participants are required to video-record the sharing of their ebooks (4 minutes maximum), upload the recording onto YouTube, and submit the YouTube link by Apr 11, 2022 Sat, at 23:59. 

  • Competition Date and time: 16th April, 2022 (Sat), 10:00 am - 12:30 pm IST (Online). Should there be registrations from other time zones, then we will try to arrange competitions in other time zones.

 

Awards

There will be at least 10 award winners in each group. The awards include Champion, First runner-up, Second runner-up, and Merit awards (7 winners).

 

There are two kinds of awards

  1. International - 10 awards

  2. Regional (eg. South Asia, Africa, Greater China [Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, etc.]) 10 awards from each region

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Prizes: 

  • A certificate and small gifts (eg. eBooks and/or souvenirs) 

  • The award “Competing with Socrates” will be given for students who designed the best questions for the workshops on ‘How to learn the art of creating questions” 

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Organizers

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  • The University of Hong Kong,

  • ASIS&T South Asia Chapter &

  • Academy 22 Education for All Foundation 

Free workshops to help students prepare for the Competition

Workshops for the primary group

  • Jan 1, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - How to write a creative story? 

  • Jan 8, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - How to create a digital story? 

  • Jan 15, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - How to write a story about AI / Artificial Intelligence?

  • Jan 22, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - What are the roles of robots in our society?

  • Jan 29, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - Techniques on digital arts creation I?

  • Feb 5, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - Techniques on digital arts creation  II?

  • Feb 12, Sat, 10am-11pm IST - How to learn  the art of creating questions I ?  

  • Feb 19, Sat, 10am-11 pm IST - How to learn the art of creating questions II ?

  • Feb 26, Sat,10am-11 pm IST - Translate the story from the native language into English

  • Mar 5, Sat,10am-11 pm IST - How to create a Youtube video on the story for sharing?

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Workshops for secondary group

  • Jan 1, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST- How to write a creative story? 

  • Jan 8, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - How to create a digital story?

  • Jan 15, Sat, 11: 30am- 12:30pm IST - How to write a story about AI / Artificial Intelligence

  • Jan 22, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - What are the roles of robots in our society?

  • Jan 29, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - Techniques on digital arts creation I?

  • Feb 5, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - Techniques on digital arts creation  II?

  • Feb 12, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - How to learn the art of creating questions I?

  • Feb 19, Sat, 11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - How to learn the art of creating questions II?

  • Feb 26, Sat,11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - Translate the story from the native language into English

  • Mar 5, Sat,11: 30am- 12: 30pm IST - How to create a Youtube video on the story for sharing?

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DATE: Jan 4, 2022

Over 613 students from 13 countries and regions have joined the International Digital Story Writing Competition. 10 free workshops will be provided to the registrants.  The first workshop was finished today with a happy face from each participant on zoom.

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DATE: Jan 10, 2022

680 + Primary and Secondary school students have registered the Competition! There are 10 free workshops for the registrants. The participants had an enjoyable learning time at the second online workshop on Jan 9, 2022. They were so engaged in the workshop of creating digital books

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DATE: Jan 15, 2022

Thank you for the sharing of Mr. Davy Ng, from Hong Kong (China) and Ms. Himanjali Shankar, from Delhi (India) in the Third Workshop, “How to write a Story about AI/ Artificial Intelligent?” A post-workshop Quiz will be provided for getting the eCertificate of Participation.

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DATE: Jan 22, 2022

Thank you for the inspiring presentation from Ahmed Alvi, Sidhant Gupta and Saad Shahid.  The three geniuses from the University of Hong Kong delivery a wonderful sharing on “What are the roles robots in our society?” on Jan 22 2022.  No wonder there are 820+ registrants of the grand event now.

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DATE: Jan 29, 2022

Over 860 primary and secondary school students from 15 countries/regions, including Hong Kong (China), Singapore (1), Romania (3),  United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Qatar, Canada, Ghana, Tanzania, and Brazil have joined the “International Digital Story Writing Competition”. There are 10 free workshops for the registrants in Jan, Feb and March. Speakers of the Fifth Workshop include, Mr. Abu Najib Mohammed Tareque, the award-winning artist from Bangladesh as well as Dr. Aqsa Malik and Ms. Humera Omer Farooq from Pakistan.  Thank you for their time and effort in providing the inspiration workshops on Jan 29, 2022.

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COVID-19 with sound knowledge

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1000 primary and secondary school students from 15 countries/regions, including Hong Kong, (China), Singapore, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Qatar, Canada, Ghana, Tanzania, and Brazil, and New Zealand, have joined the International Digital Story Writing Competition. It is organised by the Academy 22 Education for All Foundation, HKU and  the ASIS&T SA Chapter.  Your children are invited to join this international event.
https://www.asist.org/2021/10/15/international-digital-story-writing-competition/

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To help you stay safe and to deal with COVID-19 with sound knowledge, we co-organize this challenge to inform and to challenge your knowledge regarding COVID-19. If you can pass this challenge, you may have a higher chance to “survive and thrive” despite this terrible pandemic that is affecting our lives so much!
Please watch the 9 videos of dealing with COVID-19 and answer the 3 questions for each video. The 9 videos are available at 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-pt07aaW07tWg7InS2dSDg/videos


Participants will be competing in 3 different groups: Primary group (Age: 5-12) - parent-child event, secondary group (Age: 13-18) and post-secondary & adult group (18+):
Those who pass this challenge and get at least 80% correct answers will get an electronic certificate to acknowledge their excellent knowledge in dealing with COVID-19. Besides, a lucky draw will be arranged to give out our many “surprised” prizes! 
Starting Date/time: Mar 15, 23:59, 2022
Ending Date/time:  Apr 30, 23:59, 2022
Registration link: https://forms.gle/coZmBAtUzyJKtkhv6

International judges Meeting with judges from 7 countries DATE: Apr 11, 2022

Judges from 7 countries joined the International Digital Story Writing Competition Second Judges Meeting on Apr 11 2022.  1058 registrants from 16 countries/regions have signed up this exclusive event. The competition will be held online on Apr 16. Can't wait to read the eBooks from the primary and secondary school participants!

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