Sponsor Prize WinnersCisco - Solutions for the Hybrid World: Sign Language Translator for Web Meetings: identifying BSL and CSL, and converting to words. Citadel - Best Use of Data: PrivateCarbons: A bot that criticises private jet owners about hypocritic environmental awareness tweets (Runner-up:) Gredie: Web extension to estimate the cheapest shop required to make a recipe Marshall Wace - Most Entrepreneurial Hack:StartNet: Checking how unique your startup is, how likely it is to be sponsored, and who to employ (Runner-up:) Rhythym Royale: Musical Battle Royale, battle recreating sounds with your friends Optiver - Market Making Challenge: Whichever of the 25 teams could make the most money trading off the generated market over 24 hours: Viraj Shah, Austin Andrews, Robert Slawik, Cameron Stanislawski-Doyle, and Ruari Phipps Palantir - Real Impact Hack: Ambulance Distribution (Runner-up:) National Distaster Information Centre (details of these hacks cannot be included due to the participants signing NDAs relating to the software used)
Over the last weekend, the department of computing society (DoCSoc) held their annual Imperial College Hackathon (ICHack ‘22), engaging over 50 teams in a 24-hour challenge to come up with original code that solves a problem.
Participants hailed from various disciplines and years: from second-years studying Material Science to first-year PhDs, and to out-of-towners from Manchester and Leeds, with even first years in the mix. Some alumni also competed, as the competition was open to anyone who had graduated in the past year.
The event was organised by DoCSoc’s committee and past committee members - one had even flown in from Zurich to attend for the weekend - to make sure that there was continuity between years, as ICHack ‘21 had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.
ICTV were hired to film the opening and closing ceremonies. They did not have access to the audio- visual suite overlooking the Great Hall, leading to delays of up to 30 minutes before the opening ceremony, but the following event, a talk by Cisco about their Webex Video and Meetings software, started on time.
Felix has learned that someone, in their capacity as a mentor, was allowed to see proprietary information without having signed an NDA (an oversight on the parts of the sponsors involved, as the information could have been leaked and distributed to anyone).
Despite every attendee being asked to take an LFT within 48 hours of the start of the event, as well as mandatory double-vax status, positive cases have been reported from the event.
DocSoc Prize WinnersBest Entertainment Hack:MagicWand: turn your monitor into a touchscreen using your webcam (Runner-up:) Build-a-Story: engaging young children whilst teaching English Best Educational Hack:Quot-a-Lecture: search Panopto subtitles and lecture notes (Runner-up:) Michelin Duck: recipe instructions safe for children Best DevTool Hack: Oh hey: a VSCode extension to show live comments left by team (Runner-up:) Keeping London Moving Best Newcomers’ Hack: (where over half of the team had to be first-time participants to qualify) DevRush: connecting startups and developers. (Runner-up:) StockTweets: whose tweets can influence which stocks? Also because it was an event hosted by DocSoc, there was of course a meme prize, sponsored by CKHN Media.
