First statewide hAKathon draws 100 participants
November 5, 2019
The UAF Hackathon Club and the Alaska Developer Alliance hosted the first statewide hAKathon on Oct. 11, 2019.
The event was held in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau. This year there were nearly
50 participants in Fairbanks and almost 100 across Alaska in 15 teams.
The participants worked on a variety of innovative projects, ranging from an automated
drone that could identify and put out forest fires to an inexpensive indoor door opener,
which won the Startup Idea Pitch award.
Every team won an award, including a pair of Servo-driven glasses that would protect
the wearer from seeing scary things during the month of October, which won the Most
Straight-Up Hilarious and Conversation Starter prizes.
The hAKathon was sponsored by Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, the UAF College of Engineering and Mines, and the Alaska Developer Alliance.
For more information email Erik Talvi at etalvi@alaska.edu.