# hackathon Web page: /tags/hackathon ## Pages - [cell-safe (1st Place)](/projects/cell-safe.md): Emergency-response scenario prototype using synthetic cellular activity to explore transport, shelter, and supply needs at Waterfront Station. When: 2026-09 · Highlight: spotlight · Tags: hackathon, in-person, winner · From: Data Intelligence for Smarter Communities - [Data Intelligence for Smarter Communities – 1st Place (CAD $3,000)](/awards/data-intelligence-hackathon-first-place.md): Team Five Bars 3G won first place for the cell-safe emergency-response planning prototype. When: 2026-09 · Highlight: spotlight · Tags: ai, data, hackathon · From: Rogers / UBC / Databricks - [Hack For Youth – 1st Place](/awards/hack-for-youth-first-place.md): Won first place with TimeCraft, a conversational Google Calendar scheduling prototype. When: 2024-11 · Highlight: spotlight · Tags: ai, hackathon · From: Hack For Youth - [Deaf Leppard](/projects/hack-the-north-deaf-leppard.md): Wearable accessibility prototype combining speaker-attributed captions in AR glasses with directional haptic alerts. When: 2026-09 · Highlight: featured · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: Hack the North - [Vancouver AI Hall of Fame Award (CAD $1,000)](/awards/vancouver-ai-hall-of-fame.md): Hall of Fame prize and second place overall in the four-round Vancouver AI Data Storytelling competition. When: 2025-10 · Highlight: featured · Tags: ai, data-storytelling, hackathon · From: BC + AI Ecosystem Association - [Itémon (2nd Place)](/projects/scrapyard-vancouver-itemon-2nd-place.md): Interactive AI game resembling Pokémon with real‑world items; placed 2nd among 100+ participants. When: 2025-03 · Highlight: featured · Tags: hackathon, second-place, in-person · From: Scrapyard Vancouver - [Scrapyard Vancouver – 2nd Place](/awards/scrapyard-vancouver-second-place.md): Second place for Itémon, an AI game using real-world items as Pokémon-like characters. When: 2025-03 · Highlight: featured · Tags: ai, game, hackathon · From: Scrapyard Vancouver - [Genimo](/projects/nwhacks-2025-genimo.md): AI + animation tool converting user text into educational animations (Gemini + Manim). When: 2025-01 · Highlight: featured · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: nwHacks - [TimeCraft (1st Place)](/projects/hack-for-youth-timecraft-1st-place.md): Calendar + AI chatbot for intelligent time management integrating Google Calendar. When: 2024-11 · Highlight: featured · Tags: hackathon, winner, in-person · From: Hack For Youth - [MASV Lightning Challenge – 2nd Place](/awards/masv-lightning-challenge-second-place.md): Second place with Leonardo Zhou in a 30-minute large-file upload programming challenge at Hack the North. When: 2024-09 · Highlight: featured · Tags: programming, hackathon · From: MASV / Hack the North - [yvrHacks – Honourable Mention](/awards/yvrhacks-honourable-mention.md): Honourable Mention for yeetup, a natural-language event discovery prototype for students. When: 2024-09 · Highlight: featured · Tags: ai, hackathon · From: yvrHacks - [Pet Maker](/projects/stormhacks-pet-maker.md): Turns a pet photo into a rigged 3D companion that responds to webcam-tracked hands, petting, and a game of fetch. When: 2026-10 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: StormHacks - [Pack Coordinator](/projects/web-summit-pack-coordinator.md): Conference group-planning prototype with shared-interest views, a day timeline, status screens, and a venue map. When: 2026-05 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: Web Summit Vancouver Hackathon - [SocietyAI](/projects/cursor-hackathon-societyai.md): Multi-agent civic simulation where generated citizens debate policy questions and revise their stances over successive rounds. When: 2026-05 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: Cursor Hackathon Vancouver - [Latent Loop](/projects/journeyhacks-latent-loop.md): Live voice notes that revise relevant Markdown sections as a conversation returns to earlier topics. When: 2026-01 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: JourneyHacks - [Pulsera](/projects/nwhacks-pulsera.md): Webcam-based heart-rate estimation prototype with a conversational voice interface and a dashboard for trends. When: 2026-01 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: nwHacks - [PlatoAI](/projects/platoai.md): Source-grounded Socratic dialogues exploring more than 1,000 survey responses about music, discovery, and AI creativity. When: 2025-10 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon · From: Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon - [BC AI Roundtables](/projects/bc-ai-roundtable-dialogues.md): Semantic maps and narrated multi-voice dialogues exploring 1,001 British Columbians’ perspectives on AI. When: 2025-08 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon · From: Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon - [What’s Next for Canada?](/projects/vancouver-ai-semantic-maps.md): Interactive 3D semantic maps of 1,000 Canadians’ survey responses, using embeddings, t-SNE, and clustered themes. When: 2025-06 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon · From: Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon - [DaVinci Solve](/projects/hack-the-north-2024-davinci-solve.md): AI interview simulation app for CS majors (Gradio, Groq, OpenAI). When: 2024-09 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: Hack the North - [yeetup (Honourable Mention)](/projects/yvrhacks-yeetup-honourable-mention.md): AI‑first natural language interface to discover youth events & meetups (Groq). When: 2024-09 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, honourable-mention, in-person · From: yvrHacks - [Wildfire Journey Story](/projects/boreal-express-visual-story.md): Visual storytelling website documenting a train hackathon interrupted by the 2024 Jasper wildfire. When: 2024-07 · Highlight: standard · Tags: hackathon, in-person · From: The Boreal Express ## Menu [Home](/index.md) · [Projects](/projects.md) · [Awards](/awards.md) · [Resume](/resume/resume.md)