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- Location:Ho Chi Minh City
The ASU/AWS EduHackathon 2017 is co-organized by Arizona State University, BUILD-IT Alliance and Amazon Web Services. This Hackathon will focus on solving real-world problems that are present in Vietnam at the moment, and also present in many countries around the world. These include but not limited to: traffic control and reduction, e-government services, healthcare, leveraging open data.
Problem Statements:
- Healthcare Special Needs Voice Assistant
- Emergency service system for the elderly
- Environment Traffic flow optimization by using public data sets and enriching those with a mobile app that understand driving behavior and could feed those back into a traffic light grid Leverage Mobile Apps, IoT and public data sets to inform the public interactively about ongoing environmental conditions in their vicinities EducationSmart Campus capability that can collect information on certain activities on campus and make planning decisions for the university (e.g. Library, Lockers)E-Government Chatbot that can liaise with and assist local government in dealing with citizen requests; issues, new license, forms to be completed
- Who should join? Students from any of our BUILD-IT academic partner institutions and ready to: Transform idea into prototype
- Compete with other students throughout Vietnam and get certificates from Amazon Web Services.
- Enhance knowledge in cloud computing and improve professional skills.
What you need?
- Ideas of solutions to real-world problems like traffic control and reduction, e-government services, healthcare, leveraging open data, ...Team of 3-5 people from the same institution
- Register a student AWS Educate account for each member to receive free credits from AWS to be used in the competition
- Attend the AWS Technical Essential Training Day in Danang (4 October), Ho Chi Minh City (3 October), Hanoi (6 October). Download our HackEdu User Guide for full information about this Hackathon, including: how to register a student AWS Educate account, sample statement suggestions, detailed requirements in each phase, etc.
What we will provide?
To help you realizing your ideas, we will be providing the following hardware on a first come first serve basis.
- Amazon Echo Dots (10 sets)
- Rasberry Pi (10 sets)
- PCduino board/parts with IoT chip (10 sets)
- In addition, shortlisted teams will be able to register to use our two Maker Space at Danang and Ho Chi Minh City.