Hackathon2023
All submissions

The event has ended!

Thank you to everyone who participated and to all the partners!

You can check out the winners and the hackathon details below.

Watch Awards Ceremony

How did it go?

Who Joined?

More than a hundred participants with a median age of 19 years. Any high school or university student was welcome to participate regardless of skills and background.

Date

20th - 22nd of October, 2023

Place

House of Nature, Jelgavas Street 1, Riga, University of Latvia

Who Organized the Event?

We, The Raccoons, together with the University of Latvia Student Council

Workshops

We organized a series of workshops before the event.

Check them out!
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Winners

Together with the help of mentors and organizers, 32 teams managed to build real solutions in 48 hours under one of the chosen challenges:Sustainability & Data, Deep Science, GameDev and Your Challenge.After an intensive pitching session, the decisions of the jury were announced at the Awarding Ceremony, and the best-performing teams received valuable prizes.

Deep Science

Winners (€2000 cash):

SafeSight

AR goggles that provide real-time safety feedback on construction sites by highlighting dangerous objects.

2nd-place (€500 cash):

LATSAT

An independent nano-satellite network which can provide accurate live information using triangulation.

Additional prizes:

PowerPulse

EmpowerAI

inLoco

Deep metaphysical reset

Your challenge

Winners (gifts from Raccoons):

School Schedule Generator

Tool to create schedules for educational organizations much faster and easier by taking into account the preferences of students and teachers.

Motivational prize:

Theodor: the password keeper

Password manager tool, designed for elderly people for intuitive and secure password storage.

Gamedev

Winners (€500 cash + board games):

Mental Chess

Game - a version of chess to raise awareness on many ways mental illnesses may manifest and to help people recognize the problems they are facing.

Sustainability and data

Winners (TechChill tickets + audio equipment):

ForestMon

Tool to monitor forestry and prevent illegal tree-cutting in real-time using the power of satellite maps.

All submissions

See You next year!

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