The Hackathon was a success! Sixteen students from various majors competed in six teams.
Below are the teams/projects and prize winners:
Raspberry Pi
(Dana Sirota Hannah Flamme)
MinesCAT
(Musab Almodrra Jihyun Yang Viktoria Kungle)
Gotta GAN Them All
(Kai Nichols Colton Kohnke)
Let’s Classify this Bread
(Amanda Lam Brendan McDonnell Adam Stogsdill Victoria Polda)
MinesPark
(Natalie Kalin Erica West Ryan Friedman)
THOR
(Hoang Tran Julian Liu)
First place: MinesPark
Second place: Gotta GAN Them All
Third place: Let’s Classify this Bread
Fourth place: Raspberry Pi
Best Presentation and Most Ambitious: MinesPark
Most Reproducible: Raspberry Pi
Most Creative: Gotta GAN Them All
Best Speaker: Jihyun Yan
Most Helpful: Viktoria Kungel
Schedule
Friday October 25th (Brown Building 316A)
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Introduction of DAA and Hackathon rules and projects
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Participant mixer – teaming up and settling on a project/goal
2:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Brainstorm and hack!
7:00 PM: Dinner at Mines Market
12:00 AM: Participants encouraged to leave
Saturday October 26th (Marquez 122)
7:30 AM: Breakfast burritos provided!
9:00 – 9:30 AM: One slide 5-minute team updates
9:30 – 1:00 PM: More hacking.
12:00 PM: Lunch provided
1:00 – 3:30 PM: Hack!
4:30 PM: Teams give 10 minute project presentations
5:30-5:45 PM: Award voting by judges and participants
5:45 PM: Prizes awarded followed by a reception!
Unofficial Prize Pool
| First place team | $600 |
| Second place team | $250 |
| Third place team | $150 |
| Best presentation (team) | 4 Yubikeys |
| Best speaker (individual) | 1 Bluetooth speaker |
| Most helpful (individual) | 1 Sphero robot |
| Most reproducible project (team) | 1 netrunner boardgame |
| Most creative project (team) | 4 mouse pads |
| Most ambitious project (team) | 4 gaming mice |