Critical Thinker
You are a natural thinker with a keen sense of logic, patience, communication, and attention to detail.
You work well under pressure and don’t panic when complex situations arise. By breaking things down into manageable pieces and utilizing the tools at hand, you can always accomplish your goals. You are good at learning from past experiences in success and failures to make better decisions in the future. Activities you might find intriguing: design and execute projects, build constructive plans, bring and challenge creative thoughts, solve puzzles, and adapt to changes and new technologies.
Critical Thinker Road Map:
ROAR Academy
Intensive two-week online program for high school students
- Receive UC Berkeley’s official AI Camp Certificate
- Build a solid foundation to be eligible for the ROAR competition
- Have the opportunity to work with UC Berkeley faculty, researchers, and scientists
VVIP
A tailored curriculum to immerse your learning experience with the entire Berkeley AI STEAM program
- Advanced programming skills
- Complete Skillset for AI Autonomous Racing Competition
- Complement our battle-tested AI curriculum with a customized class schedule, interactive lab sessions, and extensive competition training
ROAR Competition
Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) is a global invitational AI Racing tournament founded by UC Berkeley
- Contestants’ official scores will be published on Berkeley’s ROAR website: roar.berkeley.edu.
- Winning solutions from ROAR Competition will have the honor of publishing their code and technical papers on UC Berkeley’s website.
ROAR Ambassador
Bringing Berkeley ROAR AI Racing, ROAR Research, and ROAR Academy experience to your K-12 schools and colleges to form your ROAR activities with our technical and financial support
- Ambassadors will be advised by one faculty member and one graduate student at Berkeley, typically remotely via teleconference.
- Ambassadors are qualified to participate in the annual ROAR AI Racing.
- Berkeley will provide financial support to school ambassadors for related projects. Fundings are also available depending on each ambassador’s requests.
Critical Thinker @ Hitch2049
Zheyuan Wu, class of 2020, Yali School
Zheyuan Wu is a Hitch2049 VVIP alum from Hunan Province, China, and was accepted to the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis, one of the US private research universities known as the Hidden Ivy League. In 2020, Zheyuan started taking the Hitch2049 AI curriculum with zero Python coding background. But he discovered that he enjoys computer science and especially computer games. With extensive training under Hitch2049 faculty, he attended the ROAR S1-series competition in the same year with his school teammates. He won Second Place in the overall ranking and a special award of Fastest Single Lap, beating even some undergraduate student teams from UC Berkeley. His success in learning further motivated him to become a TA volunteer to coach other junior students from his high school alma mater to get into learning AI early in their careers. Zheyuan’s dedication to research and his talents demonstrated through the ROAR competition persuaded Washington University in St. Louis to extend their invitation to continue his study in his dream major of Computer Science.