The following are the statements and prompts for each theme:

Water Quality Testing

Statement: Many places on Earth depend on natural water sources such as wells, bunkers, and lakes to thrive. Testing the water quality in these situations is essential as it directly impacts everyone's health. Water quality may decrease gradually or quickly; unfortunately, it is not noticeable most of the time. Continuous water quality monitoring will help identify specific problems and ensure water safety.

Challenge Prompts:

  • Design or update a solution to help measure water quality and safety levels.
  • Utilize technology to foster community interaction, create support networks, and raise public awareness of water safety, its significance, and the measures needed to ensure it.
  • Utilizing the domain-specific dataset to build a computational model that leverages the water characteristics to predict water safety for human consumption.
  • Leverage Tableau software and the dataset (to be decided) to extract useful information and the details will be given on the day of the hackathon.

Sanitation

Statement: Sustainable Development Goal target 6.2 calls for adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women, girls, and those in vulnerable situations. Each year, 827000 individuals in low- and middle-income countries pass away due to poor water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Around 432000 of these deaths are thought to have been caused primarily by poor sanitation. Therefore, we must ensure everyone has access to the necessary sanitation measures, given how crucial it is to a disease's transmission.

Challenge Prompts:

  • Design or update drainage and evacuation systems for sewage and rainwater to meet local conditions and budgets.
  • Utilize technology to foster community interaction, create support networks, and raise public awareness of sanitation and its significance.
  • Leverage Tableau software and the dataset (to be decided) to answer the following questions given on the day of the hackathon.

Water Management

Statement: In order to address water scarcity challenges over the long term, Abu Dhabi has established a ten-year integrated water resources management plan. The practice will embrace best practices from around the world in innovation, plan for the future, and close the gap between the water supply and its rising demand.

Challenge Prompts:

  • Design or update a solution to increase public awareness about managing water demand, avoiding waste, and maintaining water resources.
  • Utilize technology to develop strategies to improve water use efficiency in light of the Abu Dhabi water resources management plan.
  • Utilizing the domain-specific dataset to build a computational model that forecasts future water availability for different cities.
  • Leverage Tableau software and the dataset (to be decided) to extract useful information and the details will be given on the day of the hackathon.

The students will work in teams to create and propose novel solutions that address a problem within one of the proposed themes. Output could include applications, processes, or creative ideas. By the end of the day, each team will pitch their solution to the jury. High school and undergraduate students (up to sephamore level only) will be evaluated separately, i.e., one winner from high school and one from undergraduate students.

Hackathon Competition Schedule 23/ 2/ 2023

Registration deadline 22/ 2/ 2023

08 am – 09 am

Regristration

12 pm – 01 pm

Lunch

04 pm – 06 pm

Presentation of Solutions

09 am – 12 pm

Hackathon Phase I

01 pm – 04 pm

Hackathon Phase II

06 pm

Announcement of Winners

08 am – 09 am

Regristration

09 am – 12 pm

Hackathon Phase I

12 pm – 01 pm

Lunch

01 pm – 04 pm

Hackathon Phase II

04 pm – 06 pm

Presentation of Solutions

06 pm

Announcement of Winners