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Dialogue-Driven AI Literacy

We are dedicated to making AI literacy a shared journey—one that unfolds through debate, discussion, and collaborative discovery, equipping our community to foster the development an informed and inclusive digital future.

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Debating Our Future

Two Competition Tracks

Public Speaking Track

Individual Entry

In this individual event, students deliver a 7-minute, well-researched speech on a designated AI-related topic based on their age group. Each speech should be a single-take, unedited video recording. Participants may use AI tools for research, writing, and content creation, including visuals. The top 20% of participants advance to the elimination rounds, where they may submit a new video or reuse their original video.

 

Schedule

March 1st, 2025: Video Submissions Due

March 20th, 2025: Finalists Announced

April 5th, 2025: Final Videos Due  

April 25th, 2025: Winner Announced

Essay and Debate Track

Team Entry

This team-based track combines written essays with live debates, challenging students to research, build arguments, and engage in structured debate rounds. Students may work individually or in teams (even whole classrooms can collaborate on a submission), but the top 32 teams will need to choose 2 representatives for the live debate rounds.

 

Schedule

March 1st, 2025: Essay Submission – Teams submit a written essay on their designated topic.

March 22nd, 2025: Rebuttal Submission – The top 64 teams submit written rebuttals to opposing essays.

March 30th, 2025: Debate Advancement – The top 32 teams advance to live debates.

April 5-25th, 2025: Live Debate Tournament – Elimination debates are held over zoom.

April 25-30th, 2025: Championship Debate – The final 2 teams compete in the championship debate.

Topic

Ages 10-11: Students should be able to use generative AI in school (1,000-word essay)

Ages 12-13: Students should be able to use generative AI in school (1,500-word essay)

Ages 14-15: AI developments will reduce global poverty (2,000 word-essay)

Ages 16-18: AI will enhance human flourishing (2,000-word essay)

Ages 19-22: AI will enhance human flourishing or (students pick) Frontier AI models should be open source (2,500-word essay)

Competition Logistics

Round 1

Write a 1,500-word essay*,** and submit it by March 1, 2025. *See details under topics

 

Round 2

The top 64 advancing teams*** in each age division will be notified by March 15 and will have until March 30, 2025, to write a rebuttal to another advancing team’s arguments

 

Round 3

Top 32 advancing teams will be notified by March 22, 2025

 

Round 4

April 5-10: 16 online debates among the top 32 per division

April 10-15: Top 16 in each division debate 

April 15-20: Top 8 in each division debate

April 22-24: Top 4 in each division debate

April 25-30: Final round debate

 

Notes

*Length varies by age division. See below.

**Students will write an essay on one side of the resolution. They may pick the side they write on, but they must be prepared to debate both sides of the resolution based on random assignment if they advance to the elimination rounds.

*** We will advance up to 64 entered teams in each division, but we will not advance more than half of the entries. All entries in the top 20% will receive awards.

Elimination Round Judges

Judges

Justin Bruno

AI Strategist @ Michigan Virtual

 

Dr. Jennifer Camille Dempsey 

Director, PennWest Center for AI and Emerging Technologie

 

Joe Carver

Associate Head of School, The Meadows School

 

David Coale

Partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP

 

Dr. Alan Coverstone

Founder, Covariant Education

 

Jerry Crisci

Co-founder of the Center for Innovation at the Scarsdale Public Schools

 

Vera Cubero

Emerging Technologies Consultant

North Caroliina Department of Public Instruction 

 

Dr. Laura Dumin

AI Institute, American Association of Colleges and Universities

 

Benjamin Durham

Ploto, Ethical Data Collection Solutions

 

Sofia Fenichells

Founder, StudyHall.ai

 

Eric Fraser

CTO, Dr. Lisa AI

 

Dr. Thomas Goodnight

Professor, USC; identified as one of the top 5 scholars in argumentation in the twentieth century

 

Alex Gray

AI Network Lead, British Schools in the Middle East

 

Dr. Jason Gulya

Chair, AI Council, Berkeley College

 

John Hines

Co-Founder, DebaterHub.com (AI)|

 

Maim Hoque

Senior Business Consultant, IBM

 

Dr. James Hutson

PHds in Art and Artificial Intelligence

Lindenwood University

 

Alex Iftimie

Deputy General Counsel, OpenAI

 

Dr. Michelle Kassorla

Professor of English & Technology, Georgia State 

Perimeter

 

Dr. Michael Kearney

Associate Manager, Data Science - Development & AI, Meijer

 

Zach Kinzler

Boodlebox.ai

 

Mary Lang

Center for Leadership, Equity & Justice, USC Annenberg

 

Melissa Loble

Chief Academic Officer, Instructure (Canvas)

 

Dr. LeAnne Lindsey

Director of EdTech and Innovation, AZ Institute for Education and the Economy

 

Brian Manuel

Former Director of Policy Debate, Stanford University

 

Lori Mazor

Founder, Syntheviti.ai

 

Devika Mehta

Deputy Editor, Jagran New Media

 

Susan Morrisey

Roach Leadership Center, AI Consultant, Boston College

 

Dr. Kimberly Pace-Becker

Iowa State & Moxie Academic Labs

 

Dr. Sabba Quidwai

Founder, Designing Schools

 

Dr. Anand Rao

Chair, Department of Communication & Digital Studies

University of Mary Washington

 

Tom Rogerson

Headmaster, Cottesmore School (UK)

 

Dan Shalmon

Debate Coach, UC Berkeley

 

Nisha Talagala

Founder & CEO, AI Club

 

Dr. Tatjana Titareva

Titareva AI Education Consultancy

 

Ghazali bin Abdul Wahab

Nanyang Technological University Singapore 

 

Edward Williams

Debate Coach, Harvard Debate Council

 

Dr. Jessica Yeats

Principal Data Scientist, Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA

 

Dr. Joseph Zompetti

Full Professor of Communication, Illinois State

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