The first AI World Youth Championship ended successfully!
On April 19, 2020, which lasted more than 7 months, the highly anticipated first-generation Ministry of Industry and Information Technology CCID Artificial Intelligence Competition Youth Programming Group Challenge (cum AI World Youth Championship) ended successfully with the end of the online award ceremony. The AI World Youth Championship is guided by the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, sponsored by the China Computer Industry Association, the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Information Technology Research Institute Training Center. CodeCombat provides technical platforms and professional technical support for contestants. This competition is an artificial intelligence popular science competition for 6-18 year-old national primary and secondary programming enthusiasts. It adheres to public welfare, with zero threshold, zero foundation, and zero fees. Learn to program during the competition to promote learning. Since the launch of the AI World Youth Championship on August 30, 2019, it has attracted 7,020 young players from 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. There are three groups in this competition: the elementary school primary group (grades 1-3), the elementary school senior group (grades 4-6) and the middle school group (grades 7-12). After two rounds of competition and selection in the national preliminary round and regional rematch, a total of 186 outstanding players nationwide entered the national final. Affected by the epidemic, the national finals will be changed to online, and only the individual matches will be reserved. After three hours of online competition, Wang Jingyang from Jiangsu, Hong Bingcheng from Ningxia, and Chen Yuanbang from Zhejiang won the first place in the three categories of Xiaochu, Xiaogao, Middle School and above respectively, with 74 players nationwide Won the first, second and third prizes of the individual competition.
The AI World Youth Awards ceremony was conducted via live webcast, and thousands of people across the country watched the live broadcast. Feng Gang, director of the Training Center of the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, addressed the online awards ceremony and said: "Artificial intelligence, as the core driving force of a new round of industrial revolution, will definitely bring profound changes to economic and social development and even the human world. Youth as The most dynamic and creative group in society should be at the forefront of the times. This also requires us to start from basic education such as artificial intelligence, software programming, and robots, and cultivate a large number of internationally competitive ones that meet the needs of the future era. First-rate talent. "
At the same time, Nick Winter, the founder of CodeCombat, was invited to the awards ceremony. He was far away in the United States to congratulate the winners through video connection and expressed that as the exclusive global technology cooperation platform for this competition, he will continue to create world-class youth computers The science curriculum is its own responsibility, facing the world and facing the future, so that children in every corner of the world have the opportunity to contact programming and systematically master the basic knowledge of artificial intelligence. Finally, the message to the youth: "The road is long and long, and I will search up and down. I believe that today's diligence and hard work will definitely exchange tomorrow's vast light!"
The successful conclusion of the first "AI World Youth Championship" is the beginning of CCID Institute Training Center to develop new business and explore new models. It also marks that our center will firmly implement the mission requirements of the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" of the State Council. Based on the principles of popular science and public welfare, we will innovate teaching and learning models, cultivate young people's creative ability, computational thinking ability, engineering practice ability and collaborative team ability, and actively train a new generation of young scientific and technological talents who adapt to social development.
It is reported that the second CCID Artificial Intelligence Competition is under active preparation. By then, the competition will set up new competition formats and explore new cooperation models.
List of winners
▲ List of winners of the National Finals