Int'l Digital Story Writing Competition

International and Intergenerational AI-Human Collaborative Digital Story Writing Competition 2023/24

國際AI人類協作數位故事寫作大賽 2023/24

主辦機構 Organizers:
A22 Education For All Foundation

香港電腦教育學會 The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education

協辦機構:
香港教育城 Hong Kong Education City
iSTEM AI Lab

This exciting AI-human collaborative competition is for students (primary and secondary) and older adults (55+) from around the world to work together on a digital story/book (fiction or nonfiction). Students and older adults are encouraged to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help write creatively and collaboratively. Each team can write a story/book about how AI and robots can help improve our everyday life. Although we recommend participants to write about AI and robots, we also welcome participants to write on any other topics. In any case, participants (younger and older) will learn a new way of writing - AI-empowered writing. Though we try to promote intergenerational participation, teams without a younger or older partner can still participate in this fun event.

The winners will receive attractive prizes! To equip students with the knowledge and skills to participate competently in this interesting competition, 10 workshops will be offered for free to the participants!

國際AI人類協作數位故事寫作大賽現正接受報名!大賽邀請來自世界各地的中小學生參與。所有參賽者將通過堂網上工作坊的學習, 並使用人工智能工具進行創意寫作（可以用英文或中文寫作）, 讓AI啟發創作者的靈感。此外, 我們鼓勵同學和老友記一起進行寫作, 如果感興趣, 我們將安排一位老友記和你一起編寫電子書籍。在這個過程中，你可以幫助老友記學習資訊科技的技巧, 同時也可以從他們身上學得寶貴的人生經驗。

關於題材方面, 我們建議同學創作有關於人工智能如何幫助人類的故事，例如用AI科技來保護大自然。當然，人工智能只是其中一個主題，我們也非常歡迎參賽者自由選擇主題和內容，探索不同類型的寫作。

我們將為參賽者提供10 堂工作坊, 同學將學會使用人工智能工具（例如 Sudowrite）進行創意寫作，培養英語寫作技能、多媒體和人工智能素養。除此之外，也會學習使用AI工具（DeepAI、DALL-E）生成插圖, 鍛鍊 21 世紀技能（如溝通、協作、創造力、批判性思維等）。每位參賽者只能提交一份作品 (包括影片和電子書兩部分) ，獲勝者將獲得精美獎品和證書。

參賽組別: 初小、高小、初中、高中

報名連結: https://forms.gle/V3g5f3mJaUZmhYZU8

截止報名日期 Deadline for Registration：9 Dec 2023（Sat）

AI 工具 Suggested AI tools：Sudowrite, DALL-E, DeepAI, Canva AI

語言 Language：英語為主 (中文亦可)

作品提交：參賽者必須在2024 年 4月21日（星期日）

或之前填寫表格（https://forms.gle/pYQwkdNMT7k3fgv58），提交作品連結。

Participants are required to video-record the sharing of their ebooks AND HOW THEY USE AI for story creation (4 minutes maximum), upload the recording onto YouTube, and submit the YouTube link by 21 Apr (Sun), 2024.

比賽日期和時間（線上）：

小學組：27/4/2024（六） 10:00am 至 12:30pm

中學組：27/4/2024（六） 12:30am 至 3:00pm

每組最多將有 10 名獲獎者。獎項設冠軍、亞軍、季軍、優異獎（7名）。

Work submission 遞交作品

Online lessons 線上課程

Awards:

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

Prizes:

A certificate and gifts (eg. cash prizes, 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”
Through collaboration with a publisher, the winning students will have a chance to become “real” international authors.

Competition date/time (via zoom):

Primary group: 27th Apr 13 (Sat), 2024; 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Hong Kong Time

Secondary group: 27th Apr (Sat), 2024; 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm Hong Kong Time

Academy 22 Education for All Foundation (https://www.a22foundation.org/) has organized many similar / related writing competitions before. Last year, 600+ students from around the world joined our International Digital Story Writing Competition! - "AI and Health" & "COVID-19: Imagine, Create & Share" (https://www.a22foundation.org/intldigitalstorywriting)

Objectives:

Students will learn to
- do creative writing
- use AI-writing tools (e.g., Sudowrite) as their coach in developing their stories creatively
- use AI-writing tools to inspire their story ideas
- use AI-writing tools to help develop their writing skills ‌in‌ ‌English‌
- use digital story writing platforms (Storyjumper) to create an interesting multimedia and multilingual story
- use AI tools (DeepAI, DALL-E) to generate artworks
- use AI tools to help develop their AI literacy
- use AI tools to help cultivate 21st-century skills (collaboration, creativity, critical thinking)

Competition Groups

Students will compete in one of the following groups

Junior primary group (Age: 5-8) - length approx. 10-20 pages; approx. 200-600 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!
Registration link: https://forms.gle/V3g5f3mJaUZmhYZU8
Enrolment period: Nov 9 (Thu), 2023 – Dec 9 (Sat), 2023
Digital Writing Tools: Participants may use Sudowrite to create their own story and use any digital tools to create their eBooks, such as StoryJumper. Every student participant is expected to write at least 50% of the story and highlight the part written by himself/herself when submitting their work for the competition.
Language: Students should write the story in English. Each participant can only submit one piece of work for the competition.
Submission of work:
- Participants must submit the link to their eBook by filling the submission form (https://forms.gle/7jKzpSFB7svYBcwEA) on or before 21 Apr (Sun), 2024. 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 and screen captures of Sudowrite’s history records 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 21 Apr (Sun), 2024.
Competition Date and time (Online):
- Primary group: 27th Apr 13 (Sat), 2024; 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Hong Kong Time
- Secondary group: 27th Apr (Sat), 2024; 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm Hong Kong Time

Workshops:

Workshop 1 Introducing AI in Story Writing & Digital Arts Creation using DALL - E

Dec 9 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 2 What is Artificial Intelligence?

Dec 16 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 3 Sudowrite Session 1

Dec 30 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 4 Storyjumper Session 1

Jan 20 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 5 Sudowrite Session 2

Jan 27 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 6 Digital Arts Creation (e.g., Deep AI, Canva AI)

Feb 3 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 7 Storyjumper Session 2

Feb 17 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary), 2:00-3:00pm (Secondary)

Workshop 8 Question Creation with Gen AI Session 1

Feb 24 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary, Secondary)

Workshop 9 Question Creation with Gen AI Session 2

Mar 2 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary, Secondary)

Workshop 10 (AI-empowered) Video Creation & Ethical concerns about generative AI

Mar 9 (Sat), 1:00-2:00pm (Primary, Secondary)

International and Intergenerational AI-Human Collaborative Digital Story Writing Competition Award Ceremony
人工智能人類協作數位故事寫作比賽頒獎典禮

The award ceremony of the International and Intergenerational AI-Human Collaborative Digital Story Writing Competition was successfully completed on July 12 at City University of Hong Kong. The competition invited 200 primary and secondary school students from Hong Kong and Canada to participate. After final review, 30 outstanding works were successfully awarded.

Students use generative artificial intelligence tools for creative writing, letting AI inspire creators. In addition, we encourage students to write with Friends. In the process, students can help Friends learn information technology skills and learn valuable life experiences from them.

The competition is organized by The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education and A22 Education for All Foundation, and co-organized by Hong Kong Education City, City University of Hong Kong and iSTEM AI Lab. At the award ceremony, participating students showed their story creations after three months of training. These works not only showcase the students' AI skills, but also share how AI can be used to help humans and solve problems in life. After the ceremony, parents, students and teachers had valuable exchanges and learning with the organizer’s university AI education research team and shared their award-winning experiences.

人工智能人類協作數位故事寫作比賽頒獎典禮在7月12日在香港城市大學順利完成。比賽邀請來自200位香港和加拿大的中小學生參與，最後經過評審，30個優秀作品成功獲獎。

同學們使用生成式人工智能工具進行創意寫作，讓AI啟發創作者的靈感。此外，我們鼓勵同學和老友記一起進行寫作，在這個過程中，同學可以幫助老友記學習資訊科技的技巧，同時可以從他們身上學得寶貴的人生經驗。

比賽由香港電腦教育學會和A22 Education for All Foundation主辦，香港教育城、香港城市大學和iSTEM AI Lab協辦。頒獎典禮現場，參賽同學展示了他們經過3個月培訓後的故事創作。這些作品不僅展現了學生們的AI 技巧，還分享如何用AI幫助人類，解決生活上的困難。典禮後，家長，學生和老師們與主辦單位之大學AI教育研究團隊，進行寶貴的交流學習，分享獲獎心得。