The Patient Safety Technology Challenge engages with students to build solutions focused on avoiding medical error and reducing preventable patient harm. Bring your software or hardware ideas to life by aligning it to one of the following problem categories and help reimagine tech-enabled healthcare systems: Medication-related, Medical Complications with Patient Care, Procedure/Surgery-Related, Infections, and Diagnostic Errors.

Create a generative AI-based grading system for detecting lies and mis/disinformation.

Optimally implementing health equity into clinical trials -- Identify a way to increase clinical trial recruitment from these under-presented populations (self sign up or through a doctors office) and a coordinated process to get patients to the centers. Identify a way to help community centers managed increased patient flow.

Support improved patient/HCP discussions -- Create a software approach that allows patients to have a simulated conversation with doctor’s to gain confidence prior to a live doctors visit. Incorporate public data available that can help build the patient’s most accurate personna. Include the ability to record live in office conversations that can then be transcribed into laymen’s terms (vs heavy medical terminology). Integrate with calendars for upcoming appointments, treatment reminders, etc.

Integrate ML and CV into skills assessment of videos of laparoscopic surgery training, which will take the assessment burden off of mentors and allow trainees to hone their skills at a pace that matches their dedication to improvement.

Integrate ML and CV into skills assessment of videos of laparoscopic surgery training, which will take the assessment burden off of mentors and allow trainees to hone their skills at a pace that matches their dedication to improvement.

FFU will be giving away $500 to 3 teams interested in continuing their HopHacks project! At least one member of each team must be a JHU student.

Each member of the team that best aims to help people and improve lives will receive a JBL Speaker.

Use any Google Cloud product. Firebase counts! Win a Google Cloud-branded backpack for each team member.

$25 gift card for each person on a team that implements the Verbwire API on their project.

Our EdTech Resource Bundle includes Pitch Preparation Tips, Problem-Solving Tips, EdTech Sector Benefits, and Team Leadership Tips for your student awardees to be able to successfully launch their EdTech projects and scale them for something larger. These practices, tips, and resources were assembled by the Leading Learners Chief Executives on our EdTech startup's evolution.

Free subscriptions to Incogni to the members on the Overall 1st Place team. Incogni is a game-changer in the cybersecurity market due to its innovative approach to tackling the widespread issue of data privacy and protection. It helps users exercise their right to delete their personal data from the internet.

This award is for a year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

Google Cloud Backpack

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Learn more about the tools and opportunities with Google Cloud by joining the Google Cloud Student Innovators program - goo.gle/student-innovators. Winners will receive a Google Cloud branded backpack!

Be sure to redeem your Google Cloud Credits as soon as possible through the Google Cloud Credit Form. Use the promo code in your pre-event email to access the form!

JBL Wireless Headphones

Taipy is a powerful yet easy to use open-source Python library for creating full stack web applications! If you’re a Python developer, this library enables you to build interactive and dynamic graphical user interfaces and support them with data-driven backends. All of these functionalities are just a pip install taipy away and can cut your development time in half! Use Taipy in your hackathon project for a chance to win a set of JBL Wireless Headphones for you and each of your team members, as well as a chance to have your project featured on the Taipy website!

Fidelity Branded Wireless Charger

At Fidelity, accessibility is viewed as a major key to the success of their business, which is why they are challenging you to come up with innovative ways to make tech more accessible! We want you to use your hacking skills to find and build solutions that put opportunities and resources within reach for all communities. The team with the best accessibility hack will win a Fidelity branded wireless charger for each team member!

M5GO IoT Starter Kit

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Anker 337 Power Bank

Soroban is an open-source Rust-based developer-friendly smart contracts platform built for scalability. It is interoperable with the layer-1 Stellar blockchain and benefits from the network’s existing global reach and access. With Soroban, developers have the freedom to create applications as borderless as the internet.

Learning how to build Decentralized Applications (DAPPs) using Soroban is easy and fun. Simply follow along with the DAPPs on Soroban challenge by forking either of the Crowdfund or Payment repositories, and make the project your own with personalized customizations! The challenge link even has some simple walk-throughs available to help you get started.

Remember to customize your DAPP using Soroban this weekend for a chance to win an Anker 337 Power Bank for you and each of your teammates!

Hack from Home kit

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.