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Two SHSIDers Won Prizes in the AI Creative Design Competition

August 27, 2021

Two SHSID high-school students joined an artificial intelligence invitational tournament for youth and programmed for the AI Creative Competitive Design Competition in early July. They were required to program the “tank”, the attacker, on the computer in the Python language; in this program, the rule of the virtual football game was exactly the same as the one in reality. In the preliminary round, they only needed to control one tank to attack or defend, while in the finals, a randomly generated field was automatically created, and they were asked to control five tanks at a time. In addition, a new function of firing bullets was available, creating both fun and uncertainty throughout the whole soccer game. On the competition day, the fierce "football game" was even projected on the big screen, encouraging more interactivity.

During this summer, when they were busy preparing for the standardized tests, they neatly conducted the preparation work. Compared with the preliminary competition, the difficulty of the rematch was greatly increased. First, it was no longer a battle between the computer and the participants. Instead, it was a battle between teams. So, it became quite crucial to conduct some accurate computations and tactics to achieve them with code. While the process of debugging and revising code is challenging, the results are often unsatisfactory. Sometimes, the code changed is even less effective than before, and the original code cannot be recovered. Although they faced difficulties, they didn’t give up debugging. After changing several tactics, they finally found the relatively best approach in the experiments. For the five tanks they had, they set two for defense; meanwhile, the rest attacked and assisted defense when necessary.

Time management was also a crucial aspect for them to deal with throughout the whole process. Given it was a team project, and each of them had their own arrangements, it was hard to find a time in which they were both available; thus, there was limited amount of time for discussion especially due to their tight schedules this summer. In the end, though, they strove to maximize discussion-time efficiency and distribute the work fairly and evenly after discussions.

Hard work pays off. Finally, they entered the final round, where they were able to learn from and communicate with more excellent programmers. They finished up winning the title of Excellent Team Members.

To deal with emergencies, artificial intelligence demonstrates optimized solutions with high speed. AI development makes our lives more efficient and helps people explore deeper areas. This activity not only exercises these two students’ ability of programming and teamwork, but also allows them to see the various programming ideas from students from different schools. Algorithms are similar to football games: with millions of strategies, we cannot say which strategy is the best, and everyone provides a feasible solution according to their own experiences and achieves them with implementation. Progress is only made through thousands of attempts and communication: after all, this is also the integration and progress of human ideas.

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(Written by Elsie, Rachel Pictures by Elsie, Rachel Supervised by Tianzhou He Reviewed by Qian Zuo)