2024 AI for Good Hackathon
September 28 and 29, 2024
AI for Good is a 24-hour hackathon bringing together student teams, and partners LISC Jacksonville, The Link, Google Cloud, UNF, and NLP Logix to build solutions that drive social good benefits.
The hackathon was organized using Devpost. Follow the below Devpost link to view winners, judging criteria, rules, and schedule.
This hackathon has ended!
Hackathon Overview
Over the course of a weekend, UNF and Jacksonville University students collaborated to work on unique problems impacting youth development. Students were provided with the tools, support, and data needed so that they can write the code to right the world.
31
Hours
20
Students
8
Teams
Participating students received mentorship from LISC Jacksonville, NLP Logix, PGA Tour, CGI, Medical Solutions, CSX, 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.
Due to Hurricane Helene, Friday activities were cancelled. The hackathon began on Saturday, September 28, at 9 AM and ended at 4 PM on Sunday.
Social Good Problem Cases
Hackathon participants were provided with two problem cases and expected to solve one of them.
Problem Case #1: Rental Scams
Detect nefarious actors in online housing search sites and estimate financial damages to victims in Duval County.
Problem Case #2: Heirs Property
Identify and estimate households vulnerable to heirs’ property issues in Duval County.
Technology Partner
Google Cloud provided access to necessary cloud services for participants to solve hackathon problems. Participants had access to the following Google Cloud resources: BigQuery, AutoML, DataPrep, Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Looker. Google Cloud was the lead organizer for hackathon meetings and covered the costs for drinks and snacks during the hackathon days.
Award Sponsors
LISC Jacksonville is a convener, an investor, and a capacity builder. LISC Jacksonville is a bridge between capital and communities.
Valley Capital Partners is a leading boutique early stage venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, CA; Pittsburgh, PA, and Hong Kong, HK.
Macquarie Group Limited is a global financial services firm specializing in asset management, investment banking, and financial advisory. It is recognized for its innovative financial solutions and strategic use of technology to enhance client services.
Hackathon Host
The Link is a space that inspires visitors of all ages to “learn, play, think, and do.” The state-of-the-art building in Ponte Vedra’s Nocatee neighborhood offers unique amenities and an overall otherworldly experience for guests attending - or hosting an event.
Schedule
- 9 AM
- Hackathon Kickoff, Introduction to problem cases and overview of Google Cloud
- 11 AM to 2 PM
- Mentoring session on problem understanding and solution approach
- 7 PM
- Mentoring session on solution implementation
- 10 AM
- Stop hacking, submit the solution, and prepare for final presentation
- 11 AM
- Evaluation of code and solutions by AI experts from UNF
- 1 PM
- Hackathon team presentations
- 3:30 PM
- Award ceremony
Saturday, September 28
[Breakfast at 9 AM, Lunch at noon, and Dinner at 6:30 PM provided by hackathon]
Sunday, November 5
[Breakfast at 9 AM and Lunch at noon provided by hackathon]
Winners
Gold Award
Team(Marion Forest) focused on detecting and flagging MLS listings that can be considered fraud at 95% confidence.
Silver Award
Hackstreet Boys team (Hunter Ford, Aryan Shirmohammadi, and Antony Malesevic) developed a NEAT Algorithm to detect anomalies in the MLS listings.
Bronze Award
Ospreys team (Mahmoud Elbatouty, Walid Kambagha, and Ahmed Sayed) used ML packages and Tableau to identify properties that are at risk for the sale of tax certificates.
4th Place
Osprey Security team (Edgar Quinones, Delali Simpson, and Alex Ramudo).
5th Place
Team MAE (Michael Rivera, Ann Ubaka (JU student), and Elias Missa (JU student)).
Event Pictures
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First Place Award Winners
Marion Forest
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Second Place Award Winners
Hackstreet Boys team (Hunter Ford, Aryan Shirmohammadi, and Antony Malesevic)
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Third Place Award Winners
Ospreys team (Mahmoud Elbatouty, Walid Kambagha, and Ahmed Sayed)
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Hackathon Check-in
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FL-DSSG Co-Director
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Ospreys team working on the Heirs Property Issues problem case
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Byte bites team presenting their hackathon solution
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Osprey Security Team Working on Apartments Rental Scam Problem Case
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TEAM MAE Working on Apartments Rental Scam Problem Case
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Stuck Silver Team presenting their solution for Hiers Property Issues Problem Case
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Kdr3.0 Team Working on Hiers Property Issues Problem Case
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Hackathon teams receiving tips from mentor
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Osprey Security Team receiving Fourth Place Award
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Hackathon Judges
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FL-DSSG Co-Director announcing winners
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Byte bites team working on the Hiers Property Issues problem case
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KDR 3.0 Team presenting their hackathon solution
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Osprey Security Team presenting their hackathon solution
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Team MAE receiving fifth place award
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2024 AI4Good Hackathon Group Picture
Judges
Matt Berseth
CIO and Co-Founder, NLP Logix
Michael Vitti
SVP, Data & Decision Science, PGA TOUR
John Sapora
Housing Resiliency Program Officer at LISC Jacksonville
Manish Agarwal
Senior Manager at Macquarie Group
Jason Nuñez
Real Estate Investment Specialist at Valley Capital Partners LLC
Evaluation Criteria
Each participating team will be evaluated on their model performance and presentation of the results. Winners of the hackathon will be determined based on the below evaluation factor weightings and scores received.
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
Katie Bakewell
NLP Logix
Dan Richard
UNF Psychology
Sandeep Reddivari
UNF Computing
Indika Kahanda
UNF Computing
Brian Ferdman
CSX
Xudong Liu
UNF Computing
Rachel Lewis
Medical Solutions
Jacqueline Shelly
PGA Tour
Karthika Gopalakrishnan
CGI
Michelle DeDeo
UNF Statistics
Harsha Nalla
NLP Logix
Volunteers
Amr Elfayoumy
Grejsi Gjata
Linh Nguyen
Akintoye Oyedola
Anastacia Magaliene
David Schineis