Hackathons

Participant

Pitched a digital farm planning solution to empower new farmers with personalized crop suggestions, soil identification support and a dashboard of cost and yield insights, without the need for sensors and hardware.

Honourable Mention (Runner Up)

Created (mostly vibe-coded) an asteroid simulator that allows you to visualize the orbits and impacts of real asteroids, all in one place. The asteroids were pulled from NASA's NEO and SBDB APIs, and it was built on top of an existing open-source 3D model of the Earth.

Honourable Mention (Runner Up)

Our team developed and presented an online platform to help connect food banks and farmers to people in need (particularly those with reduced mobility) and help reduce the wastage of cosmetically imperfect produce.

1st Place

Prototyped a hybrid Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) game combining elements of 'Red Light–Green Light' and 'Crossy Roads', where the idea was to have two players control movement using EEG brainwave signals + keyboard input. Although the full integration wasn’t successful, it was a fun learning experience in real-time EEG acquisition, and working with BCI boards.

No Winners Declared

Pitched a VR device concept to help improve or maintain the mental health of astronauts on space missions

3rd Place (Local), People's Choice Nominee

Our team partially-developed and pitched a map that aimed to allow farmers to track LANDSAT flyovers over specific coordinates, or receive updates via SMS without the need for an internet connection.

Participant

Contributed to the frontend of a GenAI wrapper chatbot facilitating improved patient-doctor medical dialogue.

2nd Place (National), 1st Place (Local), Global Nominee

Our team developed and pitched an updatable satellite map, which aimed to provide near real-time info about wildfires, winning first place locally and second place nationally (CSA National Prize).

2nd Place (Local)

Pitched a solution to improve the accessibility and usability of NASA's 'Juno Cam' website, winning second place in the local competition.

Participant

Pitched a system to monitor isolation amongst seniors in long term care facilities, using data from wearable devices

1st Place (Healthcare Category)

Pitched a hospital bed tracking solution that would aim to provide real-time status updates on bed availability and occupancy, helping improve patient care.