2024 AI for Good Hackathon

September 28 and 29, 2024

AI for Good is a 24-hour hackathon bringing together UNF student teams, and partners First Tee, AWS, CapTech, 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 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.


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

Saturday, September 28

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

[Breakfast at 9 AM, Lunch at noon, and Dinner at 6:30 PM provided by hackathon]

Sunday, November 5

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

[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

  1. Gold Award Winners
  2. Silver Award Winners
  3. Bronze Award Winners
  4. Hackathon Check-in
  5. AWS Partner Intro
  6. Team working
  7. Team presentation
  8. Team Picture
  9. Team Picture
  10. Team Picture
  11. Team Picture
  12. Mentoring Picture
  13. Fourth Place Team
  14. Judges
  15. Winners Announcement
  16. Team working
  17. Team Presentation
  18. Team Presentation
  19. Team Award
  20. 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

 

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