A secondary school can enrol up to 30 students of any grade-level in the contest.
All students must attend a free, two-hour, pre-contest workshop at their school.
The school selects the workshop focus, either a genre-based approach or a process-based approach to writing with ChatGPT.
The school is responsible for securing a venue and computers, taking attendance and video recording the workshop etc.
The date for a school's 2023-24 writing workshop is negotiable between September 2023 and April 2024.
The submission deadline for entries is also negotiable.
To enrol your school, kindly contact David Woo at net_david@pbss.hk.
A school must choose one of the following tasks for its students to answer.
Learning English through Sports Communication
While tai chi is a popular activity in Hong Kong, it is less known in some parts of the world.
Write an article for International Travel magazine introducing the benefits of tai chi to tourists.
Learning English through Popular Culture
Anime Expo, Hong Kong's biggest anime, manga and video game exhibition, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre last weekend. As a school reporter, you attended the event and interviewed some people dressed in cosplay.
Write an article for your school magazine.
Learning English through Workplace Communication
You work for Restaurant Business magazine. You interviewed a restaurant owner about his/her experiences of running a business during the pandemic.
Write a feature article for the magazine.
Write on Google Docs.
Name the Google Doc (question number)(your school abbreviation) (your class and class number), for example, 1 HPCCSS 5A05 or 2 PBSS 1C02
Share your Google Doc on Google Classroom or by adding net_david@pbss.hk as an editor.
Write no more than 500 words.
Go to www.POE.com -- use any POE chatbot including ChatGPT. Use chatbots as many times as necessary.
You must use your own words and words from POE chatbots. Use as many or as few of your own words or chatbot words as necessary.
Highlight each company's chatbots' words in a different color:
Anthropic in ORANGE: Claude etc.
Google in GREEN: Gemini; Google-Palm
Meta in BLUE: Llama etc.
OpenAI in RED: GPT-4; ChatGPT; GPT-3.5 etc.
Other in PURPLE: Assistant; Mistral; Mixtral; Solar; StableDiffusionXL; Web-Search
The submission deadline is negotiable.
Failure to follow any contest regulations will result in disqualification.