2022 AI4Good

2022 AI for Good Hackathon

September 23 to 25, 2022

AI for Good is a 48-hour hackathon bringing together UNF student teams, and partners JEA, FIS, and Microsoft to build solutions that drive social and environmental benefits.

The hackathon was organized using Devpost. Follow the below Devpost link to view winners, judging criteria, rules, and schedule.

AI4Good Devpost Site  

This hackathon has ended!

Hackathon Overview

Over the course of a weekend, UNF students collaborated to work on unique problems impacting the environment. Students were provided with the tools, support, and data needed so that they can write the code to right the world.

48
Hours


33
Students


8
Teams

Participating students received mentorship from FIS, Microsoft, JEA, and UNF experts. Participants were expected to use their skills in the problem domain, programming, data mining, machine learning, statistical analysis, and visualization techniques to solve the problem. Hackathon participants were expected to form a team with a maximum of three to work on the hackathon problems and datasets.

Social Good Partner

JEA provided two problem areas and relevant datasets for student teams to work during the hackathon.

Solar power generation

Predict solar farm power generation given historical data.

Vehicle route optimization

Optimize a vehicle routing problem given starting location, ending location, and a number of maintenance stops that must be made.

Sponsors

FIS was the lead organizer for the hackathon event handling logistics, food, and prizes.

Microsoft provided access to Azure services and in-house support to use Azure technologies to solve the hackathon problems. Microsoft covered costs for prizes.

Schedule

Friday, September 23

4 PM
Hackathon Kickoff and problem overview by JEA
5 PM
Hackathon starts and continues through the night (Building 15, Third Floor)

Saturday, September 24

Full day of coding and hacking remainder of the day and through the night

1 PM to 2 PM &
7 PM to 8 PM
Mentor meetings (Building 15, Third Floor and MS Teams)

Sunday, September 25

10 AM
Stop hacking, submit the solution, and prepare for final presentation
11 AM
Evaluation of code and solutions by AI experts from FIS and UNF
1 PM
Hackathon team presentations (Building 15, Room 1304)
3:30 PM
Award ceremony

Winners

  Gold Award

Predicting Future Solar Power Output from NOAA Weather Data
by Jeremy Cantor, Aidan Doruska, and Jack Swingle

  Silver Award

Solar prediction: Predict solar farm production from weather
by Marion Forrest, Troy Kidd, and Jason Swinehart

  Bronze Award

PF: Your optimal pathfinder
by Michael Kimollo, Prajwol Lamichhane, and Kris Roker

Event Pictures

  1. Gold Award Winners

    First Place Award Winners

    Jeremy Cantor, Aidan Doruska, and Jack Swingle

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  2. Silver Award Winners

    Second Place Award Winners

    Marion Forrest, Troy Kidd, and Jason Swinehart

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  3. Bronze Award Winners

    Third Place Award Winners

    Michael Kimollo, Prajwol Lamichhane, and Kris Roker

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  4. Hackathon Check-in

    Hackathon Check-in

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  5. Problem 1

    Vehicle Route Optimization Problem Description

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  6. Problem 2

    Predicting Solar Power Generation Problem Description

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  7. Audience

    Kickoff Event Audience

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  8. Carole

    Hackathon Cruise Director Carole

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  9. Team Picture

    Vehicle Solutions Team

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  10. Team Picture

    MJR Team

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  11. Azure Mentor

    Mentoring on Azure Technologies

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  12. Volunteers

    Volunteers Hangout

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  13. Team Picture

    Star Team

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  14. Mentor

    Mentoring on statistical Approaches

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  15. Team Picture

    MelNazSharif Team

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  16. Presentation

    MelNazSharif Team Presentation

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  17. Judging

    Hackathon Judges

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  18. Team Presentation

    Vehicle Solutions Team Presentation

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  19. Judging

    Hackathon Judges

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  20. Team Presentation

    Adjective Animal Team Presentation

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  21. Team Presentation

    Sunflower Squad Team Presentation

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  22. Award Ceremony Group Picture

    Award Ceremony Group Picture

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Judges

Ashish Talati

Microsoft

Steve Lindsey

Microsoft

David Berglund

FIS

Matt Berseth

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Timothy Hunt

JEA

Dr. Lakshmi Goel

UNF

Evaluation Criteria

Each participating team was evaluated on their model performance and presentation of the results. Winners of the hackathon was determined based on the below evaluation weightings and ratings.

Presentation (20%)

Model Performance (40%)

Solution Approach (40%)

Scoring Ratings

5 = Excellent presentation on all counts

4 = Very good presentation with minor issues

3 = Pitch can be significantly improved but is satisfactory overall

2 = Pitch is incomplete and severely lacking

1 = Presenter fails to address the criteria

Mentors

Gary Duma

FIS

Santosh Metla

FIS

Sheel Saket

FIS

Greg Happ

FIS

Greg Harvey

JEA

James Haley

JEA

Halley Den Nys

JEA

Steve Lindsey

Microsoft

Ashish Talati

Microsoft

Dr. Xudong Liu

UNF

Dr. Indika Kahanda

UNF

Dr. Michelle DeDeo

UNF

Dr. Richard Shang

UNF

Volunteers

Kayla Drake

Connor Geller

Ryan Dey

Brandon Dinh

Rachel Aguinaldo

Amna Mehmood

Matthias van Meurs

Carter Johnston

Logan Hacker

Marcus Tervine

George Shannon

Cameron Davis

Alexa Zervos

Amanda Cross