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@ DoraHacks
2025-01-19 11:37:26
# **Hackathon Summary**
[Hack Western 11](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hackwestern-11) concluded successfully with 62 projects registered by student developers. This event nurtured innovation and creativity within a collaborative environment. Projects were evaluated on innovation, technical complexity, completeness, and design, ensuring a comprehensive assessment.
Participants, in teams of up to four or individually, facilitated flexible engagement. The hackathon encouraged submissions across multiple tracks, enhancing exposure and opportunities for projects addressing diverse challenges.
A science fair-style setting allowed participants to present their projects to judges, enabling detailed demonstrations and discussions. This format helped teams articulate their objectives, spotlight achievements, and receive feedback. The in-person judging provided an interactive platform to recognize creative solutions.
Overall, Hack Western 11 fostered a productive atmosphere, marked by a diverse range of student-led projects. The event prioritized project completeness and user-friendly design, aiming for technically sound and practically applicable solutions.
# **Hackathon Winners**
### **Overall Prize Winners**
First Overall
- [BravoDispatch](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20371) enhances emergency dispatch operations using AI to process caller transcripts, reducing manual data entry. It integrates React, Cloudflare, and Llama 3 LLM for robust solutions.
Second Overall
- [Blocks](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20342) simplifies Cairo smart contract development with a block-based interface and real-time collaboration, using React Flow Editor and Flask for deployment.
Third Overall
- [Mark3d](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20367) transforms product videos into 3D models for secondhand marketplaces, promoting trust and sales with React Native, NVIDIA NGP Instant NeRF, and Flask.
### **Best Hardware Hack Prize Winners**
- [SolarScope](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20385) utilizes AR for overlaying 3D building models to assess energy efficiency, using Arduino sensors and Python algorithms for solar insights.
### **Canada Life Prize Winners**
Best Hack to Help "Move" Employees Back into the Hybrid Office
- [PickPark](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20391) streamlines workplace parking with real-time space management, promoting inclusivity and eco-friendly commuting through a smart system.
### **Sunlife Prize Winners**
Best Financial Health Hack
- [Chill Bill](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20382) integrates financial tracking with mental health support using AI for advice and gamified features, built with React and Plaid API.
### **Best Video Game Hack Prize Winners**
- [EEGscape](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20401) develops inclusive gaming experiences using EEG interfaces, enabling control via head movements and combining React front-end with MuseJS for EEG data interpretation.
### **Warp Prize Winners**
Best Developer Tool by Warp
- [Blocks](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20342)
- [tin.](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20363) aids performance analysis across Linux distributions using CLI and GUI interfaces, employing Docker and React for user-friendly benchmarking.
### **Voiceflow Prize Winners**
Best Use of Our APIs
- [Talk to Duckie](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20337) prepares for coding interviews with AI-driven simulations, enhancing comprehension of complex algorithms through Voiceflow and Cloudflare's speech-to-text.
- [Not The New York Times](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20398) converts real news into satire using AI and FastAPI, fostering critical engagement with Next.js and VoiceFlow.
### **Auth0 Prize Winners**
Best Use of Auth0
- [roammates](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20357) facilitates group travel planning with AI-generated itineraries, using React and Firebase for personalized experiences and vote-based decisions.
### **Streamlit Prize Winners**
Best Use of Streamlit
- [TALK TO A: Forensics Artist](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20318) identifies individuals using trait descriptions, employing VGG16 for facial classification and an entropy-based querying system.
### **Cloudflare Prize Winners**
Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare
- [BravoDispatch](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20371)
### **Starknet Prize Winners**
Best Use of Starknet
1. [PacRoyale](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20381) - A blockchain-based gaming platform for real-time Pac-Man games, leveraging Cairo for smart contracts and StarknetJS for transactions.
2. [Blocks](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20342)
3. [IPAnywhere](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20334) - Facilitates patent leasing via blockchain, with smart contracts ensuring secure transactions and ReactJS for a seamless frontend experience.
4. [Crowdfund: Powered by Starknet](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20383) - Decentralizes crowdfunding with secure wallet connections and smart contracts, ensuring fundraising transparency.
### **Tempo Labs Prize Winners**
Best Use of Tempo Labs
- [Chill Bill](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20382)
- [Upright](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20372) detects falls using accelerometer data, providing real-time alerts with NextJS and TempoLabs for rapid emergency response.
- [ID-Trackr](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20364) provides identification for homeless persons using facial recognition, applying eigenfaces for recognition tasks.
- [BeFit](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20376) offers real-time feedback with AI and computer vision, using Mediapipe for form assessment.
- [GoFundUs](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20399) - A group funding platform on StarkNet, ensuring secure and democratic financial goal achievements using Tempo Labs' interface.
Explore the full list of projects on [DoraHacks](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hackwestern-11/buidl).
# **About the Organizer**
### **Hack Western 11**
Hack Western 11 continues a decade-long tradition of being one of Canada's largest student-led hackathons, hosted by Western University. Known for promoting collaboration and technological creativity, the event attracts hundreds of students to develop web and mobile projects over a dynamic weekend. Hack Western has consistently driven technological advancements, facilitating skill enhancement and community building. This year, inspired by the essence of overnight camping, Hack Western 11 aims to craft an unforgettable experience that nurtures collaboration in technological innovation.