AI Hackathon

This year the Junior School entered 3 teams of 4 girls into the Techways Hackathon which took place on the 20th of May. We spent the day at WHPS in their Ideas Hub, working in unison with the boys’ teams. This is our 4th year of entering this competition, and it is truly a measure of how fast AI is changing the world and in education.

The teams were given four broad topics: transport and mobility, agriculture and food systems, digital safety and wellbeing and cross-border trade and informal economy. The teams had to identify a problem in one of the topics and create an innovative solution using AI.

Our teams came up with ideas ranging from a wristband to track children when using public transport and alerting parents of their safe arrival at school or home to a card that finds “open” places on public transport and alerts parents both, of the space as well as tracking the child’s journey. The third team came up with a scam scanner that people can use to check prices and validity of online websites as well as providing a comparison option. All these were presented in working prototypes that considered bias, fairness and equity of the solution.

The day ended by sharing a delicious lunch with their WHPS counterparts where new friendships were made.

The future of AI is exciting and daunting, but our Grade 7 teams showed that they have mastered Ideas in Motion and are up for the challenge.