Link for registration: https://pittchallenge.com/
Welcome to the seventh annual Pitt Challenge!
We are a student-led hackathon and we aim to provide an environment to sustain a global effort from students from all over the world on October 21nd-22th in person. We want everyone - pharmacy students, engineers, designers, and more - to come and help solve some of the biggest challenges facing healthcare and pharmacy today. Happy hacking!
For Healthcare Students
Even if you have no coding experience, your team will need your insights into the world of healthcare and pharmacy. Keep in mind that your fellow participants are students like yourself, and everyone is trying to work together to learn and develop amazing ideas.
For Tech-Based Students
Even if you have no experience with healthcare or pharmacy, your team will need your ability to rapidly produce software from ideas. Your team will provide the healthcare background that you need to succeed. Remember that everyone will be learning to build something together.
Requirements
1. Building an application
We highly encourage an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) of your idea with code and a working demo. No-code proofs of concept are accepted but will be marked for no code. Cheating is not tolerated and cheating is working on your idea before the hackathon official start time (09/17 @ noon). There are anti-cheating measures from Devpost and MLH so please do not cheat!
No cross submissions: You cannot submit your application if you are submitting to other hackathons.
2. Submitting a video
To show your project, you must make a presentation about your awesome project! This presentation should at least have the following slides:
- Team Introductions
- Problem statement
- Solution proposal
- Demo
The presentation should be under 3 minutes with an emphasis on the problem statement, solution proposal, and demo.
To submit the recording of your presentation, there will be an option to add a video when you are completing the submission form.
Prizes
Overall 1st Place
$3000 Cash Prize
Overall 2nd Place
$2000 Cash Prize
Overall 3rd Place
$1000 Cash Prize
Best Use of Google Cloud
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Winners located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, Android pillow, journal, socks & lanyards. Winners outside of the US will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack.
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.
Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity
Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach to all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!
Best Use of Auth0
Rocketbook & Rubik's cube for each member of the team
Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win some exclusive swag, including nan Auth0 branded Rocketbook and Rubiks Cube! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Save some time on your hack and set yourself up for a big win. It doesn't take much to get started. Auth0 is free to try, no credit card required, with up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today!
Best Use of Soroban
Anker 337 Power Bank for each member of the team
Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.
Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations to the smart contracts and UI! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.
Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win an Anker 337 Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!
Big Data and Machine Learning
Prize - JBL Flip 5 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker
Data is being generated at an incredible rate. Though these data sets may have been created for a specific purpose, leveraging data to develop other products is an incredible opportunity. Managing data has been more and more difficult. With the advent of machine learning, these data can be leveraged as training sets to automatically process data. Our challenge to you is to find the ways that big data and machine learning to make advances in healthcare.
Governance and Ethics in AI
Prize - Wacom One Creative Pen Tablet
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly becoming more involved in healthcare. With this integration, questions and barriers need to start arising to ensure accountability and safety for private information. Our challenge to you is to find ways to protect patient’s private information and ensure good use of technology for the benefit of all.
Women’s Health
Prize - Google Nest Home Hub
Women experience health issues unique to themselves – and conditions that affect both men and women can have additional complications when you’re a woman. Additional inequalities exist that results in women experiencing decreased health outcomes through diagnosis and treatment. Our challenge to you is to utilize technology to improve healthcare outcomes for women.
Health Literacy
Prize - Kodak Flik X7 HD Home Theater LED Projector
Health literacy has been a major point of contention in past years. Many announcements from the scientific community have had mixed uptake. Common issues have revolved around COVID, vaccines, and infection prevention. However, improving health literacy is a long standing opportunity in the US. Complicating the situation, there is a significant amount of information online that is created to sell products that have no scientific basis. Our challenge to you is to create robust solutions to help improve health literacy for COVID and beyond.
Games for Health
Prize - Bluetooth Yeti Microphone
Most people find gaming fun, but learning not. Our challenge to you is to gamify learning about topics in healthcare.
Supporting Caregivers
Prize - Roku Ultra 4K
Many patients require assistance from caregivers/family members in performing activities of daily living, tasks that are essential in leading a quality life. Healthcare is primarily focused on providing assistance to said patients. However, we often fail to address the caregiver role and the additional stress that comes with the responsibility. Our challenge to you is to utilize technology to provide support for caregivers to ensure that both they and the patient have the best possible quality of life.
Patient Safety
Prize - Fuji Film Camera
Do no harm. Medical errors are responsible for more than 250,000 deaths annually, making it the third leading cause of death annually in the United States. Misread instructions, incorrect doses, and wrong site surgeries are all examples of medical errors that can occur across the healthcare continuum. Supporting the practice and workflow of clinicians, using data to double-check processes, and empowering patients to play a proactive role in their care can improve care. Our challenge to you is to leverage technology to improve the safety of patients.
Sustainability in Healthcare
Prize - Samsung Galaxy Buds
Climate change and pollution are major problems impacting our world right now. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is a major driver of waste and pollutants. Our challenge to you is to mitigate pollution and improve healthcare by utilizing technology.
Burnout in Healthcare Workers
Prize - Samsung 8.7" Galaxy Tab A7 Lite
Many workers in healthcare face burnout due to multiple factors, such as societal, cultural, and overall workload. This burnout can lead to lower-quality care and medical errors for patients. Our challenge to you is to leverage technology to improve healthcare workers' experience and prevent burnout.
Patient Engagement
Prize - Amazon Echo Show 8
Patients experience better outcomes if they understand what is happening with their health. Our challenge to you is to utilize technology to help patients stay engaged in their health.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
TBA
Judging Criteria
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Technical Complexity Achieved
How technically ambitious was the project? How much did the team complete? (Weighted) -
Problem
How clearly was the problem defined? How directly was it linked to a user's pain/need (empathy)? (Weighted) -
Creativity
Does the solution attempt to solve the problem in a novel way? -
Feasibility
How practical is the solution as it pertains to the end-user? -
Value
How large is the market potential and/or human impact? How likely are you to recommend this solution for someone with the presented problem? (Weighted) What % of your investable income would you invest on this solution?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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