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Leadership Team
NuevaHacks III
inspiring global collaboration during COVID-19.
10 days. 350 students. 8 countries. 100 teams. 5 visionary speakers.
$6000 awarded. 25 incredible winners. 1 global hackathon.
First Place, $750
Nemo Delingat, Maelle Allanic, Aidan Smith, Qi Lu
SATWICH is a completely free, offline, unlimited SAT testing platform, on a mission to transform the testing landscape. This project identified a very unique period we are in – a window of time when paper-based tests are widely prevalent, and test-taking is transitioning to online, yet no online platform can take these tests and provide an online experience. This team had incredible implementation, fantastic design, and their project has the potential to have a MASSIVE societal impact.
Second Place, $600
Izzy Swart
Mincodec is a novel serialization format that is drastically more efficient, both spatially and temporally, than existing solutions. This project could be groundbreaking. Izzy benchmarked against popular solutions and showed that his approach was significantly more efficient. Judges were all blown away, and one even offered an internship.
Third Place, $450
Yehong Jiang
Yehong created an innovative solution using AI to interpret sign language. His project identified a key problem that the disabled community is facing right now and trained a robotic simulator that models a human translator. Watch the demo, it's so cool!
Best Design, $500
Jacob Zwang
VolumeHQ is a more efficient way for groups to communicate remotely. The judges were amazed by Jacob's vision and superb video demo, making it a clear cut winner for Best Design.
Best Remote Learning, $500
Kajetan Knopp, Karol WÄ…sowski, Igor Dmochowski
This team of three from Poland created a custom platform, smarTest, that uses machine learning algorithms to detect whether students are taking tests fairly while at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Best Pitch, $200
Alon Knaan, Rotem Knaan, Guy Knaan
CoronaWise provided a refreshing look into how we can keep our society safe while also keeping their data safe. This team extensively outlined a Bluetooth-based contact tracing method that delivers accurate results in a secure and encrypted way.
Honorable Mention, $100
Kira Wallace
Honorable Mention, $100
Isabelle Ho, Albert Huang, Oscar Capraro
Honorable Mention, $100
Stephanie Shields
AWS Prize – DeepRacer
Nicholas Assaderaghi
AWS Prize – 2 DeepLens
Spencer Ball, Ben Garvin, Daniel Mendelevitch, Jasper Wood, Isaac Heintze
ZÅ«m Prize – Best COVID-19 Project, 4 Google Homes
Ryan Cheng, Joseph Kraus, Sebastian Deery, Elliot Chin
ZÅ«m Prize – Best COVID-19 Project, 2 Google Homes
Aryan Vichare, Soham Manoli
ZÅ«m Prize, 1 Google Home
Caroline Dinh
ZÅ«m Prize, 3 Google Homes
Isabelle Ho, Albert Huang, Oscar Capraro
ZÅ«m Prize, 1 Google Home
Stephanie Shields
ZÅ«m Prize, 1 Google Home
Nicholas Assaderaghi
Best Global Collaboration, 4 Amazon Echo Dots
Arvind Tawker, Marcus Kushner, Rishabh Gupta, Pranav Dave
Best Under 12, $75
Alvin Yao
Best 10 Under 10, $50
Anusha Narayan
Best 10 Under 10, $50
Kritika Gupta
Most Technical, 2 Raspberry Pi's
Soham Manoli, Aryan Vichare
Best Machine Learning Project, $100
Sean Cheong
Most Helpful, 4-pack of Tile
Cole Mathes
Best Team, 1 year of Disney+
Maya Sprosts, Vivienne Levenberg, Josephine Belfer, Charlotte Stewart, Cara Wang, Cami Yen, Sarina Fernandez-Grishpun
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. "
Steve Jobs
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