cell-safe (1st Place)
Data Intelligence for Smarter Communities
Emergency-response scenario prototype using synthetic cellular activity to explore transport, shelter, and supply needs at Waterfront Station.
Data Intelligence for Smarter Communities – 1st Place (CAD $3,000)
Rogers / UBC / Databricks
Team Five Bars 3G won first place for the cell-safe emergency-response planning prototype.
Hack For Youth – 1st Place
Hack For Youth
Won first place with TimeCraft, a conversational Google Calendar scheduling prototype.
Deaf Leppard
Hack the North
Wearable accessibility prototype combining speaker-attributed captions in AR glasses with directional haptic alerts.
Itémon (2nd Place)
Scrapyard Vancouver
Interactive AI game resembling Pokémon with real‑world items; placed 2nd among 100+ participants.
Genimo
nwHacks
AI + animation tool converting user text into educational animations (Gemini + Manim).
TimeCraft (1st Place)
Hack For Youth
Calendar + AI chatbot for intelligent time management integrating Google Calendar.
Vancouver AI Hall of Fame Award (CAD $1,000)
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
Hall of Fame prize and second place overall in the four-round Vancouver AI Data Storytelling competition.
Scrapyard Vancouver – 2nd Place
Scrapyard Vancouver
Second place for Itémon, an AI game using real-world items as Pokémon-like characters.
MASV Lightning Challenge – 2nd Place
MASV / Hack the North
Second place with Leonardo Zhou in a 30-minute large-file upload programming challenge at Hack the North.
yvrHacks – Honourable Mention
yvrHacks
Honourable Mention for yeetup, a natural-language event discovery prototype for students.
Pet Maker
StormHacks
Turns a pet photo into a rigged 3D companion that responds to webcam-tracked hands, petting, and a game of fetch.
Pack Coordinator
Web Summit Vancouver Hackathon
Conference group-planning prototype with shared-interest views, a day timeline, status screens, and a venue map.
SocietyAI
Cursor Hackathon Vancouver
Multi-agent civic simulation where generated citizens debate policy questions and revise their stances over successive rounds.
Latent Loop
JourneyHacks
Live voice notes that revise relevant Markdown sections as a conversation returns to earlier topics.
Pulsera
nwHacks
Webcam-based heart-rate estimation prototype with a conversational voice interface and a dashboard for trends.
PlatoAI
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
Source-grounded Socratic dialogues exploring more than 1,000 survey responses about music, discovery, and AI creativity.
BC AI Roundtables
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
Semantic maps and narrated multi-voice dialogues exploring 1,001 British Columbians’ perspectives on AI.
What’s Next for Canada?
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
Interactive 3D semantic maps of 1,000 Canadians’ survey responses, using embeddings, t-SNE, and clustered themes.
DaVinci Solve
Hack the North
AI interview simulation app for CS majors (Gradio, Groq, OpenAI).
yeetup (Honourable Mention)
yvrHacks
AI‑first natural language interface to discover youth events & meetups (Groq).
Wildfire Journey Story
The Boreal Express
Visual storytelling website documenting a train hackathon interrupted by the 2024 Jasper wildfire.
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