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Registrations for the 2017 Embrapa Academic Hackathon are open until September 13th. The competition challenges newly graduated students and professionals to develop digital technologies for the field. Teams with high school, technical or higher education students can participate, as well as graduates who graduated less than three years ago.
This year, the Embrapa Hackathon takes place simultaneously in six cities, with different themes:
Belém (PA) – Challenges for açaí;
Boa Vista (RR) – Mobile solution for disseminating technological information and surveying research demands;
Brasília (DF) – Electronic games/educational pieces in digital media with a focus on science for children and adolescents;
Recife (PE) – Mobile solutions for the study of soils;
Seropédica (RJ) – Mobile solutions for sustainable production focusing on functional attributes of Atlantic Forest plants and conservative biological control;
Teresina (PI) – Cowpea: sustainable management and guaranteed market.
The objective is to put classroom knowledge into practice to transform research information into technological solutions for different regions of the country. The generated products can be mobile applications, hardware, internet of things (IoT), educational pieces or games focused on technological innovation of agricultural interest.
For this, the teams will have sponsors, Embrapa specialists in the various topics, who will accompany and support the participants with information from agricultural research. The first stage of the Hackathon will be a face-to-face meeting, on September 21, where the teams will meet the sponsors and have an overview of the contest's theme in their city. The development of the prototypes takes place until the 17th of October and the final result of the Hackathon will be announced on the 19th.
More information about the topics, calendar, regulation, among others, can be obtained on the page www.embrapa.br/hackathon.
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