The 2024 Shanghai Mind Olympiad Innovation Competition and the 45th World Mind Olympiad Selection Event will be held from March 2 to 3 at Songjiang Yunjian Middle School, a foreign Chinese school affiliated to Shanghai University of Foreign Chinese. This is also the first time since 2020 that the competition has resumed offline competition. There were 276 teams from Shanghai, 220 teams from 10 brother provinces and cities such as Shandong and Zhejiang, 6 teams from South Korea and 1 team from Germany came to observe and exchange, and more than 4,000 teachers and students participated in the event.
The students were brainstorming and creative. For example, Shanghai Xiaonan performed her own "Flowers", and the participating team of Shanghai Experimental School chose the title of "Drive-in Theater", designed the script story, and determined that the story line of "Alice" inadvertently breaking into the world of "Harry Potter" was used to complete the performance. In addition to the whimsy of prop production, they also added some funny scenes to the performance, allowing the bearded Dumbledore to speak a piece of Shanghainese, and the students said that after the broadcast of "Flowers", the popularity of Shanghainese dialect inspired them.
Shanghai Private Koehler Foreign Chinese School has participated in the competition for 5 consecutive years and has accumulated rich experience. As a suburban school, Shanghai Yuepu Experimental School has set up a programming club in the school's Children's Palace to enlighten students, so that children in the suburbs can also feel the charm of AI. For the 15th consecutive year, Huacao School in Minhang District, Shanghai, boldly designed a plot for the competition, and the children went back to the 17th century to seek the help of Leonardo da Vinci to identify artworks.
Founded in 1980, the Mind Olympiad (OM) is an international event that aims to foster innovation, teamwork and hands-on skills among young people. China has been participating in the event since 1987, and this year marks its 37th year, with 75 world championships.
Zhong Lixin, President of the Shanghai Mind Olympiad Association and President of Shanghai Education Newspaper Headquarters, said that he looks forward to stimulating the creativity and potential of more young people through such activities, and cultivating more innovative talents for the development of the future society.
The Mind Olympiad focuses on developing young people's creativity, cultivating the spirit of innovation and teamwork, requiring the combination of brain and hands, science and art, nature and humanities.
This year's Mind Olympiad Innovation Competition has a total of 6 long-term questions - "Drive-in Theater", "Artificial Intelligence Installation" and "Classical ......Funny and perverse debut", "Structure in the depths of space", "Rock 'n' Roll Journey", "The World of Night".
One of the first prize winners of "Rock and Roll Journey" is Songjiang Yunjian Middle School, a foreign Chinese school affiliated to Shanghai Wai Chinese University, and 7 team members said that their efforts in the past six months have been worth it. There is no captain in this team, because everyone wants to be a captain, both to shoulder responsibility and to reflect the team spirit of OM.
The two-day selection event will give the winning teams the opportunity to compete in the finals of the 2024 World Mind Olympiad to be held at Iowa State University in the United States this year. (The Paper).