We are back! Given the great success of last year's PhysTech 2024, we are excited to invite you to this year's edition: PhysTech 2025. 

Discord: https://discord.gg/mt4RVtcA7h 

Website: https://binnovative-boston.github.io/phystech/

Email: [email protected] 

Book Publication: Your project will be featured in a book. See the PhysTech 2024 book for your reference. 

Merchandise: We run an online store where you can find gifts for yourself, family members and friends.

 

About The Challenge

PhysTech is an online international hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes physical activities - including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies/pastimes and recreational adventures.

PhysTech welcomes any types of physical activities. Sports, physical training and exercise are in. Yoga, pilates, jogging, cycling and hiking? Of course. Skiing, skating, swimming, dancing, ballet, kayaking, skateboarding, rock/mountain climbing or horseback riding? Sure. Fishing, bowling, paddleboarding, scuba diving, rafting, cheerleading, outdoor bird watching, gardening, kite flying, disk golf (frisbee), or cornhole? Why not?

Not only athletes and recreational players/practitioners, but fans, coaches, referees/judges and analysts are also welcome.

PhysTech offers you a platform to address various needs, wants and challenges in physical activities and produce creative solutions (hacks) with technology.

PhysTech welcomes anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced.

Entry is free.

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Monitoring and enhancing performance
  • Logging and tracking practice, training and exercise
  • Recording, analyzing and communicating activity data
  • Applying data science to physical activity
  • Enhancing fan experience
  • Increasing participation/engagement in physical activity
  • Promoting health and wellness through physical activity
  • Preventing and helping heal from injuries and illness
  • Improving dietary and nutritional assistance
  • Protecting and improving the environment for physical activity

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, sensors, robots, audio/video, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, machine learning/AI, image/geospatial analysis, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing. 

Book chapter publication: We will publish a book that features the projects presented at PhysTech 2025. Selected participants will be invited to extend their project summaries and publish them as book chapters. We are planning to publish this book through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. See the PhysTech 2024 book for your reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQX74Y9H 

 

PhysTech is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

Organizers:

*Konomi Karube

*Naomi McCreary

* Rei Nagata (Co-chair)

* Shun Nagata (Co-chair)

* Hanna Suzuki (Co-chair)

*Sougou Tojima

*Alyssa Yasuhara

*Rimi Yoshikawa

Requirements

You are required to complete ALL of the following 3 requirements:

*Submit your project to Devpost by 12pm on June 28 (Sat), EST.

*Register your project presentation on a Google Forms page by 12pm on June 28 (Sat), EST.

*Give a project presentation online on June 29 (Sun), EST.

The deadlines are firm. No extensions will be given. Failure to meet these requirements will disqualify you (and your team) in award judging.

 

A link for presentation registration will be shared in the PhysTech 2025 channel of Discord. To register your presentation, you will be asked to submit:

*Your name and contact info

*Your country of residence

*Your project presentation title

*A summary of your project (short one-paragraph description)

A publicly accessible link to your project placed on a cloud-based code repository (e.g. GitHub) or storage (e.g. Google Drive). We will verify the actual outcome of your work with this link. Please note that we will not schedule your presentation if we cannot verify your actual work. You can submit a link to your project page on Devpost; however, please make sure that your Devpost page references the actual outcome of your work.

 

We will announce the schedule of project presentations (i.e. what time each presentation starts) by early morning of June 29 (Sun), EST. A Zoom link will be made available in the PhysTech 2025 channel of Discord.

 

In our current plan, we will start PhysTech around the noon of June 29 (Sun), EST. However, we may adjust this based on the locations (time zones) of presentation speakers.

 

You will have 10 minutes in total for your presentation, including approx. 3 minutes for QAs with judges and other participants.

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Prizes

10 non-cash prizes
Grand Prix
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

2nd Place
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

3rd Place
3 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Honorable Mention
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Excellence in Creativity Award!
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Excellence in Research Award
2 winners

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Emerging Talent Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Key Contributor Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement
-Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!).
-Interview Cake 7-day license per team member (full access to coding interview prep courses, $50)

Kintone Integration Challenge Award
1 winner

-Certificate of achievement -Will be invited to publish a book chapter about the project (priceless achievement!). -$50 worth of special Kintone Swag Pack

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judging Criteria

  • Impact
    How much impact (quality and quantity) can this project have? Does it solve a big problem or a small problem? Will it inspire or help many or a few?
  • Presentation
    How well did the team/individual communicate this project? Was the presentation effective in telling the story of the project: why it is important, what challenge it addresses, and how it delivers a solution?
  • Creativity
    How creative/innovative is this project? Is it something that hasn't been attempted before, or is it an incremental improvement on something that already exists?

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