First Response in a Box Hackathon | Welcome Series 2023 | Online
First Response in a Box - an interdisciplinary design hackathon looking at today's AI to help in crisis first-response situations.
First Response in a Box Hackathon | Welcome Series 2023 | Online
26 Sep 2023, 13:00 – 14:00
This is an online design hackathon challenge for students to get to meet others across UCL, work in teams of 10 to produce a short pitch video, learn how to use collaborative tools at UCL, and carry out an investigation on what AI technologies could do to help in various global crisis scenarios.
Guest speakers will be from the International Federation for Red Cross and from Great Ormond St Hospital. The event is a week-long challenge; this is the launch event.
On Thursday 28 there will be a technical session online and final submission is by Sunday 1 October.
This event is open to all new undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences:
- UCL Biochemical Engineering
- UCL Chemical Engineering
- UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
- UCL Computer Science
- UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UCL Mechanical Engineering
- UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering
- UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEAPP)
- UCL Security and Crime Science
- UCL School of Management
Further information
Ticketing
Ticketed
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes
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