Website: https://binnovative-boston.github.io/phystech/
Discord: https://discord.gg/mt4RVtcA7h
Email: phystech@​yahoo.com

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About the challenge

PhysTech is a student-organized online hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes any physical activities - including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies/pastimes and recreational adventures.

PhysTech welcomes any types of physical activities. Sports and physical training are in. Yoga, pilates, ballet? Of course. Swimming, kayaking, cycling, dancing, skateboarding, rock/mountain climbing, hiking, horseback riding? Sure. Fishing, bowling, paddleboarding, scuba diving, rafting, cheer leading, outdoor bird watching, gardening, kite flying, disk golf (frisbee), or cornhole? Why not!

Not only athletes and recreational players/practitioners, but fans, coaches, referees/judges and analysts are also welcome.

PhysTech offers you a platform to address various needs, wants and challenges in physical activities and produce creative solutions (hacks) with technology.

PhysTech welcomes anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced.

Entry is free.

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:

* Monitoring and enhancing performance

* Logging and tracking practice, training, and exercise

* Recording, analyzing and communicating activity data

* Applying data analytics to physical activity

* Enhancing fan experience

* Increasing participation/engagement in physical activity

* Promoting health and wellness though physical activity

* Preventing and helping heal from injuries

* Improving dietary and nutritional assistance

* Protecting and improving the environment for physical activity

 

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, sensors, robots, audio/video, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing. PhysTech is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

Book chapter publication: We will publish a book that features the projects presented at PhysTech 2024. Selected participants will be invited to extend their project descriptions and publish them as book chapters. We are planning to publish this book through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

Organizers:

* Hiroki Kudara

* Rei Nagata

* Shun Nagata (Co-chair)

* Koki Okusha

* Sarasa Ouchi (Co-chair)

* Hanna Suzuki

* Nikichi Tsuchida

Requirements

 

Each participant/team is required to complete ALL of the following 3 retirements:

 

* Submit your project to Depost by 12pm on June 29 (Sat), EST.

 

* Register your project presentation by 12pm on June 29 (Sat), EST.

 

* Give a project presentation online at June 30 (Sun), EST. 

 

Note that the deadlines are firm. No extensions will be given. Failure to meet the above requirements will disqualify you (and your team) in award judging. 

 

A link for presentation registration will be shared in the PhysTech 2024 channel in Discord. To register your presentation, you will be asked to submit:

 

* Your name and contact info

 

* Your project presentation title

 

* An abstract (short one-paragraph description) of your project

 

* A publicly accessible link to your project placed on an online code repository (e.g. GitHub) or online storage (e.g. Google Drive). We will verify the actual outcome of your work with this link in the afternoon of June 29. Please note that we will not schedule your presentation if we cannot verify your actual work. You can submit a link to your project on Devpost; however, please make sure that the link references the actual outcome of your work.

 

We will announce the schedule of project presentations (i.e. what time each presentation starts) by early morning of June 30 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be made available in the PhysTech 2024 channel in Discord. 

 

In our current plan, each presentation will spend 10 minutes in total, including approx. 3 minutes for QAs with judges and other participants.

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Prizes

8 non-cash prizes
Grand Prix
1 winner

2nd Place
1 winner

3rd Place
1 winner

Honorable Mention
1 winner

Excellence in Creativity Award
1 winner

Emerging Talent Award
1 winner

Excellence in Research Award
1 winner

Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award
2 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Harish Kamath

Harish Kamath

PhysTech Advisory Board

PhysTech Advisory Board
Binnovative

Judging Criteria

  • Impact
    How much impact (quality and quantity) can this project have? Does it solve a big problem or a small problem? Will it inspire or help many or a few?
  • Presentation
    How well did the team/individual communicate this project? Was the presentation effective in telling the story of the project: why it is important, what challenge it addresses, and how it delivers a solution?
  • Creativity
    How creative/innovative is this project? Is it something that hasn't been attempted before, or is it an incremental improvement on something that already exists?

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