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CBSE and IBM have announced the IBM EdTech Youth Challenge for school students. The competition aims at encouraging teams of students and teachers to leverage emerging technologies including cloud, artificial intelligence, and Blockchain to solve existing or imminent problems that society is facing, said a statement from the company.
The dedicated IBM EdTech Youth Challenge website says that “India competition will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and the application of AI to climate change and pandemic health issues participating teams are experiencing across India.”
All You Need to Know About CBSE and IBM EdTech Youth Challenge
The first phase will be project ideation wherein teams will first have to develop ideas on how they can use artificial intelligence concepts for their project, and then participate in a one-day ideation session with experts from IBM and its partners to work on those ideas.
The second phase will be the hackathon, which is a two-day coding event that will include approximately 100 teams of students and teachers from New Delhi and Bangalore. Top 30 teams will be selected and asked to submit the final project proposals. Out of the 30 finalist teams, five will be announced as the winners of the India EdTech Youth Challenge.
Final winners stand to get a two-week internship and mentorship experience from senior leaders at IBM as well as opportunities to participate in national or international hackathons or conferences. These internships will be with leading labs across India, with support from IBM and our partners. Those who wish to know more about the competition are advised to go through the official website.
CBSE and IBM Introduce Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Class XI and XII Students
CBSE also announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the high school curriculum (Grade XI and XII) for the current academic year (2020-21). Developed in collaboration with IBM, the curriculum is part of CBSE’s Social Empowerment through Work Education and Action (SEWA) program and will be introduced in approximately 200 schools across 13 states in India (Delhi-NCR, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Kerala, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab).
The IBM AI curriculum is structured around a course framework for students consisting of base strands of knowledge (basics, history, applications), skills (design thinking, computational thinking, data fluency, critical thinking) and values (ethical decision making, bias) in AI. It is further made robust with problem-based learning outcomes and assessment methods for teachers, to build foundational skills of AI in students making them not just consumers of AI, but creators as well. To meet CBSE's requirements for Grades XI and XII, the curriculum was co-developed with Australia’s Macquarie University and Indian implementation partners – Learning Links Foundation and 1M1B.