Congratulations and felicitaciones to the first Innovation Challenge winners!

The judges decision are in for our first Innovation Challenge hackathon! This diversity and inclusion program combines features training events, Azure certifications, and culminated with an invite only hackathon with 113 developers competing for over $27,000 in prizes. There were many, very strong projects, building solutions to real world AI use cases. Here are the projects from the top teams.

 

First prize

Dandelion Hub, a data management platform designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among government agencies

 

Second place

TerraGuard, AI-driven web application designed to empower users with the ability to predict and visualize sinkhole hazards

Connect+ Helping women in technology to network, learn, and grow together

 

Third place

BrightPath Empowering the visually impaired with seamless, multilingual assistance

GovQuery Search Designed to utilize public data sources to better ingest, process, and provide insightful knowledge management system for federal and state agencies

GhostWise Eliminating ghosting of job candidates through efficient recruitment, providing warm, transparent and effective communication between companies and candidates

 

A big thanks to the organizations who made this experience possible:  BITE-CON, Black Women In Artificial Intelligence, Blacks in Technology, Código Facilito, GenSpark, and Women in Cloud.