The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/hackathon/)
Students participating in Cornell’s 2021 digital agriculture hackathon came up with innovative ideas for solving some of agriculture’s most pressing problems.
A combination of entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary collaboration and a passion for animals landed three teams of students $3,000 at the fifth annual Cornell Animal Health Hackathon this past weekend, hosted virtually for the first time due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A group of Cornell undergraduates is trying to stem the shortage of PPE with their new design for a mask, which is tailored for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Over 150 students from Cornell, the U.S. and the world came together at the Cornell Vet School for 36 hours from Friday to Sunday afternoon to modernize one of the world’s oldest industries — agriculture.
By invoking technologies like AI, and innovations in computer science the organizers hope to address the shortages in agriculture predicted to manifest in the next decade.
Sixty-seven teams representing Cornell and other universities such as Princeton and Binghamton came together to brainstorm and develop projects ranging from website applications to hardware prototypes that centered around this year’s theme of “Community Superheros.”
Kicking off in the Physical Sciences Building Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. and finishing Sunday, Sept. 22 at 8 a.m., participants will spend 37 hours creating, developing and testing original coding projects — individually or on teams determined at the event.
“How do you feed 10 billion people by 2050 without destroying the world?” asked Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon, computer science.
Cornell Minds Matter and project team Design and Tech Initiative collaborated to create an “anti-hackathon” where students would focus on solving issues related to mental health from a tech perspective while also destressing and unwinding.
A prize of $4,000 was awarded to the best market-ready product. This year, it went to team “FarmSpeak,” which created a scannable booklet to facilitate communication between dairy farm workers and their employers to better respond to cow health problems.
This past weekend, while the Cornell Campus shut down for an unprecedented snow day, the eHub on College Avenue hummed to life with an atmosphere of innovation and excitement. On Friday evening, students, mentors, and speakers, congregated in Collegetown to embark on the three-day enterprise that is the Cornell Health Hackathon. The Cornell Health Hackathon is an event that encourages students from a diverse background of degrees, majors, and schools to collaborate in teams and produce a viable solution to a relevant issue in the medical community. This year’s hackathon outlined two health-related problems for teams to tackle. The first challenge involved resolving the global antibacterial resistance crisis, the other, creating an easy to use sleep tracking program.