‘Bridging Generational Currents’
Saratoga Excessive College sophomore Athena Zhang received a Cupertino-based nonprofit’s artwork contest for a design that makes use of pure parts to depict synthetic intelligence.
Zhang’s “Bridging Generational Currents” received the 2024 Artwork Design Contest held by the Chinese language American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC), which helps end-of-life care considerations within the Chinese language neighborhood.
Zhang’s design will probably be utilized in CACCC’s Compassion in Motion, a fundraiser and a collection of instructional applications set for Could 17-31, 2025. The scholar artist received $300 for her paintings, impressed by the significance of water in Chinese language tradition.
“Water symbolizes the ability to overcome and adapt, which goes hand in hand with the concept of CACCC’s 20th anniversary theme, ‘Empowering Caregiving with Human-Centered AI,’” mentioned Zhang in a launch.
Zhang’s design makes use of two koi fish to “illustrate perseverance and transformation. From an abstract perspective, the koi fish act as a ‘bridge’ for the human-centered AI to cross and reach the ones in need of caregiving,” Zhang added.
“The elements she chose to use in her final artwork are symbolically and culturally meaningful, as well as personal,” mentioned Sandy Chen Stokes, CACCC’s founder and govt director.
‘Home Alone’ screening
The Cupertino Library is internet hosting a Christmas Eve screening of “Home Alone” at 2 p.m. on Dec. 24. The 1990 comedy follows the adventures of an 8-year-old boy who by accident will get left behind in a frenzied rush to the airport for a household trip in Paris over the vacation season. After studying to fend for himself, the boy has to guard his home towards two bumbling burglars who’re planning to rob it.
