Teams and Submission

• • Any student studying in a middle or high school is eligible to participate.
  • Each team can consist of a maximum of four students.
  • No student can be a member of more than one team.
  • At least one teacher/staff member is required to oversee the teams from each school
  • Submissions will be evaluated as specified in Evaluation Criteria

The competition will take place online and will be conducted in three phases. During the first phase, students will submit their animations by February 7, 2022 using the link. The Alice team at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar will evaluate the submissions and select top animations from these submissions.The selected teams will be invited to present their projects on February 23, 2022. The winners will be announced on the same day.

Following are details about the competition:

• Each team will be given 7 minutes to present their project (five minutes for presentation and two minutes for questions).
• Judges will evaluate the animations and presentations as specified in Evaluation Criteria and the top five teams will be selected as winners.
• The jury will represent a wide range of leading technology and business fields in Qatar

• Animations should focus on one or more of the following areas:
  • Social responsibility
  • Diversity
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Accessibility
  • Social medua
• Idea is creative and embodied in an interesting way.
• Storyline is clear and purposeful
• Complexity of the scenario.
• Interactivity and events (use of events is not compulsory in the animations).
• Modularity: the Alice code is broken down in appropriate methods.
• Look and feel: quality of animations, smoothness of motion, e.g. a bird flies while moving its wings as it soars.
• Use of sounds, camera and motion controls.
• Film is robust, and doesn’t stop or pause for any reason.
• Film is within specified duration limit.
• Presentation is logical and interesting.
• Team members produce clear, precise, and convincing explanations/answers about the animation video and the program.

• All participants will receive certificates of participation.
• Special prizes will be awarded to top five animations.