CIC Contests 2024 Summary
Canadian Innovation Contest (CIC 2024)
CIC 2024 was one of the biggest innovative events for students in Canada. 8,000 students from hundreds of schools participated in 6 innovative contests to exhibit their potential with the goal to learn, compete and win.
Competitive Kids STEM (CKSTEM) proudly hosted its 5th Annual Canadian Innovation Contest Award Ceremony on May 26, 204. This prestigious event recognized the exemplary achievements of students, teachers, and schools to celebrate their dedication, hard work, and commitment to excellence. It was a grand celebration in an atmosphere brimming with energy and excitement.
Canadian Innovation Math Contest (CIMC)
Theme: This contest is designed to challenge and promote problem-solving, critical thinking, reasoning, and abstract or spatial thinking for the students. The 2024 contest focused on solving problems for our robots CKROBO and CKROBI.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals, support student learning with CKSTEM or other resources, and proctor the contest.
Sample Questions: The contest questions were divided into - Mental Math and Problem Solving. CKSTEM provides a comprehensive set of practice materials with solutions that teachers may incorporate as enrichment in their classrooms.
320 Medal Winners: 15 🥇, 31 🥈, 53 🥉, 221 🎖️
Canadian Innovation Computing Contest (CICC)
Theme: This contest aims to cultivate students’ creativity, logical reasoning ability, and algorithmic, and computational thinking skills. Students were given problems focused on computational thinking. No prior programming knowledge was required to participate in this contest. Concept included:
- Decomposition
- Pattern recognition
- Abstraction
- Modelling & Simulation
- Algorithms
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals, support student learning with CKSTEM or other resources, and proctor the contest.
152 Medal Winners: 12 🥇, 19 🥈, 26 🥉, 95 🎖️
Canadian Innovation Creative Writing Contest (CIWC)
Theme: CIWC is designed to allow students to use creative writing, a form of artistic expression that draws on their imagination to convey meaning through imagery, narrative, and drama in their written words. The contestants will follow rules of writing structure combined with imagination to create stories that entertain and engage readers. The 2024 contest focused on “Rewriting History with Technology and Robotics.”
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals and themes and support student learning and growth using CKSTEM or other external resources as needed. Incorporating story/paragraph writing into their regular teaching can help improve the language skills of the entire class.
Sample Situations: Students were asked to write a short fictional story based on the characters and settings provided. Situations included “Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941” or “a residential school in Canada in 1990."
50 Medal Winners: 3 🥇, 7 🥈, 10 🥉, 30 🎖️
Canadian Innovation Debate Contest (CIDC)
Theme: This contest is designed to allow students to showcase their communication and persuasive speaking skills. The 2024 contest focused on “Integrating Robots in Society”.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals and themes and support student learning and growth using CKSTEM or other external resources as needed. Teachers can also help conduct practice speeches/presentations in class, which can improve the communication skills of the entire group/class.
Sample Topics: Examples of some of the topics include- “We believe that robotic Pets are better than real pets, “We believe the advent of humanoid robots is destroying humanity,” or “We believe that the increased use of robotics is beneficial to society.
43 Medal Winners: 3 🥇, 5 🥈, 6 🥉, 29 🎖️
Canadian Innovation Visual Art Contest (CIAC)
Theme: CIAC is designed to provide students with an opportunity to engage in imaginative and innovative thought and action and to develop the ability to communicate and represent their thoughts, feelings, and ideas creatively. The 2024 contest theme was to submit artwork showing the future use of robotics in healthcare. Students can draw inspiration from viewing robotics either currently in hospitals or using their imagination to create their impression of robotics in the future.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the theme, incorporate the theme in a class project and/or excursions as appropriate, support student learning with CKSTEM or other resources, and help students with the submission process.
58 Medal Winners: 5 🥇, 8 🥈, 8 🥉, 37 🎖️
Canadian Innovation Photography Contest (CIPC)
Theme: The 2024 theme was the use of technology in farming. We understand it is challenging to access farming in cold places like Canada in winter. This is where creativity plays its role. This is an opportunity to find out a local greenhouse in your community. Surprisingly, some schools have it as well. This contest offers a chance to learn. If you can't find a farm or a greenhouse, you may find people who maintain plants in their houses or use homegrown plants to tell your photography story.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the theme, incorporate the theme in a class project and/or excursions as appropriate, support student learning with CKSTEM or other resources, and help students with the submission process.
16 Medal Winners: 2 🥇, 2 🥈, 3 🥉, 9 🎖️
LEARNING RESOURCES
CKSTEM FAMILY CHALLENGES
As children's first teachers, family members are crucial to student success. And the more adults become engaged in their children's education, the greater the chances that children will succeed. Hence, we aim to engage families in the learning process through these fun challenges.
Today's citizens need more than basic computation and rote mathematical skills. They must master the higher-level concepts and approaches to problem-solving that are key to success in work and everyday life. Download weekly challenges and enjoy with your family.
DOSES OF MOTIVATION
Motivation is a crucial ingredient for sustained competitiveness. Our fictional CK ROBO has become an integral part of the CKSTEM family. It firmly believes in core values, and its vision is to motivate students. In the current era of AI, it's getting wiser daily. He loves to share his wisdom in the form of doses of motivation.
