Deadline: 30-Oct-22
If you are a school student studying in classes 8 to 12, excited to broaden your understanding of AI technology and get a chance to learn with the brightest minds from across the country, register for the ‘Responsible AI for Youth 2022’ program.
The National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, in collaboration with its partners, has launched ‘Responsible AI for Youth 2022’- A National Program for School Students with the objective of enabling school students from classes 8th to 12th with AI tech and social skills in an inclusive manner. The program will provide a platform for youth to learn and apply AI skills and be empowered to develop meaningful social impact solutions.
The ‘Responsible AI for Youth 2022’ program is aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of AI, to equip school students from classes 8th to 12th across the nation with AI skills, and empower them to become human-centric designers and users of AI. The program offers an applied learning experience for students to understand and identify how AI technology can be used to tackle critical problems and lead to inclusive development of the nation.
The program in its last iteration offered 20 students from all across the country, the opportunity to travel to Delhi to interact with and present their work to Hon’ble Union Minister, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw and Hon’ble Minister of State, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar. As part of the program, select students also got the opportunity to travel to Ahmedabad to interact with and showcase their solutions to the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi at the Digital India Week 2022.
Objectives
Key Program Objectives:
- Foster a deeper understanding of AI-tech and social skills.
- Enable youth to develop AI-enabled solutions as a sign of achievement.
- Empower youth to become human-centric designers and users of AI.
Themes
The students need to submit their ideas under 8 pre decided themes.
- AI in Agriculture
- Utilize AI to manage and handle agricultural output and improve India’s primary sector of agriculture.
- AI in Healthcare
- Innovate with AI for medical research, patient care and diagnosis, healthcare system automation, and related fields.
- AI in Education
- Engage your imagination to find AI solutions to address learning in digital age, education management, assessment, and learner-centric fields.
- AI in environment & clean energy
- Develop solutions based on AI to protect and conserve environment and for the adoption of renewable energy sources.
- AI in transportation
- Use AI to ease the increasing strain on the transportation systems and networks, logistic infrastructure, accident prevention, intelligent traffic management, and more.
- AI for Rural Development
- Use AI to promote sustainable and inclusive growth of rural India through solutions aimed at poverty eradication, employment generation, delivery of social security benefits, development of growth infrastructure, etc.
- AI for Smart Cities
- Utilize AI to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of some smart solutions such as smart waste management, intelligent lighting systems, etc.
- AI in Law & Justice
- Utilize AI to promote responsibility, transparency, efficiency and accessibility of the law and justice system.
Rewards
- Students
- A ‘Certificate of Participation’ will be awarded to all students who attend the Orientation sessions.
- Upon a successful idea submission, students will be awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.
- Students shortlisted for Phase 2 will be provided a Training Participation Certificate on completion of the Deep Dive AI Training.
- An opportunity for selected students to showcase solutions at various levels to senior government officials and industry representatives.
- Schools:
- Schools actively supporting bulk registrations, providing infrastructure, digital hardware etc will be recognised for their efforts.
Overview
The program will be conducted in three phases
- Phase I
- Teachers will be on-boarded for the program through self-nomination here
- Teachers to be nominated per State/UT as:
- 10+ Teachers to be nominated from states/UT with less than 20 districts.
- 15+ Teachers to be nominated from states/UT with 20-40 districts.
- 20+ Teachers to be nominated from states/UT with more than 40 districts
- Teachers will be oriented to provide an overview of the program and their roles and responsibilities. The session details will be shared in advance.
- Each nominated teacher will identify students from their respective schools and share their details with the organizing team. Additionally, students can self-register by clicking on ‘Participate Now (for Student) ’.
- Online orientation sessions will be conducted for registered students around core AI concepts by experts to facilitate understanding about the ideation process.
- ‘Certificate of Participation’ will be available for students to download through program web portal post completion of the online orientation.
- Students will be encouraged to submit ideas (individually or in teams of 2) through a 120-second video explaining a proposed AI enabled solution for any one of the eight core themes.
- Krishi – AI in Agriculture
- Aarogya – AI in Healthcare
- Shiksha – AI in Education
- Paryavaran – AI in environment & clean energy
- Parivahan – AI in transportation
- Grameen Vikas – AI for Rural Development
- AI for Smart Cities
- Vidhi aur Nyaay – AI in Law & Justice
- Students will be able to download their ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ through program web portal post successful idea submission.
- Top AI-based solutions from amongst the proposed ones will be evaluated for the next phase by an independent committee of experts.
- Phase II
- Shortlisted students will attend online deep dive AI training
- 3 days face-to-face boot camp will be organized to provide adequate mentorship and guidance by AI For Youth coaches.
- After the mentorship camps, students will use this newly gained knowledge to develop AI-enabled innovations/projects on any one of the eight core themes and submit final entries.
- Top projects will be shortlisted post evaluation by an expert jury.
- Phase III
- Students will be provided with apprenticeship and guidance opportunity on IPR
- Themost innovative AI-based solutions will be announced and invited to a national showcase and felicitation ceremony
- Students will be awarded with exclusive awards in the following categories:
- Most inclusive project award
- Most futuristic project award
- Most sustainable project award
Eligibility Criteria
- Teacher
- If you are a teacher, you can self-nominate yourself for the program.
- You can apply/ get selected for this program if you:
- Are a teacher in any school.
- Have experience of teaching students from grades 8 and higher.
- Are Tech-savvy and skilled at using internet as a teaching resource.
- Are enthusiastic to learn new technology and willing to mentor students.
- Engage in co-curricular or extra-curricular activities in school.
- Use mass media tools for interactive teaching.
- Have mentorship and leadership abilities.
- Students
- Students from pan-India studying in classes 8th to 12th from any State/UT of India are eligible to participate.
For more information, visit https://innovateindia.mygov.in/yuvai/