Competitions
The Levangie Laboratories' Awesome Inventor Competition
This competition invites current high school students to harness the power of AI to develop personas that can act as a problem solver for everyday issues for all walks of life. Participants will design an innovative AI agent using the HuggingChat Assistant feature. The agent should be a creative, goal-oriented inventor that can concoct inventions to address modern needs in day-to-day life for high schoolers (e.g., planning for the future; balancing school, life, and work; coping or solving issues at home). The agent should also be skilled at detailing how an invention is suited to address the need. We will assess your AI agents on their creativity, practicality, descriptive accuracy, ethical considerations, their ability to motivate the value of their inventions and their inventions' societal value, impact on community, and improvement of quality of life. This challenge is meant to not only foster hands-on learning but also to prepare you for future opportunities in AI and develop tools that may be used by other high schoolers to improve their quality of life.
Please register below by April 30, 2025
Guidelines
Create an assistant on HuggingChat here: https://huggingface.co/chat/assistants
Test out your assistant's suggestions and fine-tune it to improve its performance. After the registration deadline you will receive an email to attach the linked URL to your assistant (if it is public) or attach the materials used to create your AI agent (if it is private).
Video Tutorial
We will ask your agent to design inventions to solve a set of scenarios on problems facing high schoolers. Your AI agent will be placed in a single-elimination bracket-based tournament. The winner of each round will be determined by our own AI model's assessment of your AI agent's performance and the public's opinion based on social media polls. If your agent is one of the top 10 highest performing, then you will be invited to present in front of an esteemed group of judges. Presentations may be virtual, but all finalists are invited to come to campus to present their work. The judges will select the winner from among the 10 finalists based on the technical understanding shown in the efforts of training your agent among other criteria to be described after determination of the 10 finalists. Each finalist will have 10-15 minutes to present, followed by a 5-10 minute Q&A session with the judging panel.
The 10 finalists will receive a certificate from Levangie Laboratories. The overall winner will get the opportunity to create a business using their developed agent as a tool to advise high school students (and perhaps others) in collaboration with the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship and also receive special acknowledgement from the University of Houston.
You are welcome to compete in teams of up to 4 members.
Timeline
Registration deadline: April 30, 2025
AI agent submission deadline: May 16, 2025
Tournament begins: May 19, 2025
Finalists selected: May 28, 2025
Finalist competition: June TBD, 2025
Contact Haowei Yang (hyang38@cougarnet.uh.edu) with any questions.