Hackathon Projects

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A hackathon is an event that challenges students to experiment and create unique software or hardware projects from scratch. Hundreds to thousands of students collaborate in small teams and compete over a short and intense time period, typically 24 to 48 hours. Below are selected award-winning hackathon projects created with found materials.



Point2Speech

2017 | Derrek Chow, Ibrahim Irfan, Justin Goping, Jayson Yan
MasseyHacks III. Vincent Massey Secondary School. Windsor, Canada. April 1 - 2, 2017.

Assistive device that speaks out loud text on a page when pointed to in real time.

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Hungr.ai

2018 | Raphael Koh, Max Steiner, Derrek Chow, Nikhil Gupta
Hack Western IV. Western University. London, Canada. Nov 17 - 19, 2017.

★ ORGANIZER'S CHOICE AWARD

AI version of the game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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Hack the Fridge

2018 | Derrek Chow, Ibrahim Irfan
Hack the North. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Canada. Sep 16 - 17, 2017.

★ HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Fridge that creates recipes based on the food placed inside it.

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Automatic Cannon

2017 | Edwin Zhang, Ibrahim Irfan, Derrek Chow

Spring-loaded mini cannon, tracks and fires candy at target's mouth using facial recognition.

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