Join forces with your fellow UNF students to collaborate and innovate for social good. Over the course of a weekend, you'll be challenged to work on unique problems impacting youth development. You’ll be provided with the tools, support, and data needed so you can write the code to right the world.

Participating students will receive mentorship from AWS, NLP Logix, CapTech, First Tee, PGA Tour, and UNF experts. Three finalist teams will be selected and announced as winners during the AI For Good award ceremony. Top teams will also have the opportunity to partner with data science experts to bring their solutions to life.

Join our hackathon, build your team, ask questions, and engage with mentors!

In preparation for the hackathon, we encourage you to focus on one of these two use cases:

Use Case #1: Engaging Youth: Enhancing Participant Retention in Ages 12 and Older

Use Case #2: Equitable Expansion: Reaching Underserved and Underrepresented Communities

Food and beverages (brain fuel) will be provided during the event.

Meet the Partners

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs and become more agile.

With AWS, you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. AWS has significantly more services and more features within those services than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and the Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost-effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine. For more information, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ 

CapTech is a technology consulting firm focused on defining and delivering what’s next for organizations. As a community of driven, collaborative, curious people, we thrive on the lasting partnerships we build through mutual success with our clients. 

CapTech partners with some of the world's most successful companies to achieve their strategic and business objectives. CapTech is also proud to be a National Trustee of the First Tee, and to actively support First Tee technology initiatives. 

CapTech helps organizations bridge the gap between business and technology by delivering organizational transformation, customer engagement, data & analytics, and custom IT solutions. For more information, visit https://www.captechconsulting.com/ 

First Tee is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. By seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum, we create active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry to everything they do.

Our work at First Tee is not about improving your golf score. It’s about strengthening what you bring to everything you do, including golf. 

With 150 US Chapters and 6 International Chapters, we serve over 3.4 million kids and teens at 1,600 program locations, 11,000 schools, and 1,900 youth centers. To learn more, visit firsttee.org 

NLP Logix is a custom artificial intelligence and machine-learning solutions provider that focuses on automating business processes across many industries. We are a diverse team of Statisticians, Mathematicians, Software Developers, and ML Engineers who have delivered automation solutions to our clients for over ten years. For more information, please visit https://www.nlplogix.com/ 

Florida Data Science for Social Good (FL-DSSG) program blends data science and technology design to inform and solve important social problems in Florida. We intend to accomplish this goal by partnering with non-profit and public sector organizations in Florida, analyzing their data, and finding impactful solutions to social issues. The FL-DSSG program provides internships for students from diverse disciplines to work on these data science projects along with our community partners. Non-profit and public-sector organizations receive data analysis and visualization reports supporting their work in the Florida communities. Florida DSSG is hosted at the University of North Florida (UNF). For more information about the FL-DSSG, visit https://dssg.unf.edu/. 

Agenda

Friday, November 3

4 PM – Opening keynote (Building 15 (Computing), Room 1304)

4:30 PM – Introduction to problems and the challenge

5 PM – Hackathon starts and continues through the night (Building 15 (Computing), Third Floor)

[Dinner at 6 PM provided by hackathon]

Saturday, November 4

Full day of coding and hacking remainder of the day and through the night

9:00 AM – Day 2 Welcome (Building 15, Third Floor)

11 AM – Mentor meetings (Building 15, Third Floor)

1 PM - Mentor meetings (Building 15, Third Floor)

[Breakfast at 9 AM, Lunch at noon, and Dinner at 6:30 PM provided by hackathon]

Sunday, November 5

Last hours of hacking and conducting performance evaluations until 10 AM.

10 AM – Stop the hackathon, submit the solution

10 AM to 1 PM – Prepare for final presentations (Building 15, Third Floor)

1 to 3 PM – Presentations (Building 15, Room 1304)

3:30 PM – Award ceremony and event closure (Building 15, Room 1304)

[Breakfast at 9 AM and Lunch at noon provided by hackathon] 

Mentoring Sessions

Friday, November 3

5 PM to 6 PM - Katie Bakewell (NLP Logix), Harsha Nalla (NLP Logix), Michelle DeDeo (UNF Statistics), Indika Kahanda (UNF Computing), Stephanie Cramer (CapTech), Wanyong Choi (UNF Sports Management), Dan Richard (UNF Psychology)

Saturday, November 4

11 AM to 12 PM - Harsha Nalla (NLP Logix), Stephanie Cramer (CapTech), Wanyong Choi (UNF Sports Management), Dan Richard (UNF Psychology), Ayan Dutta (UNF Computing)

1 PM to 2 PM - Indika Kahanda (UNF Computing), Stephanie Cramer (CapTech)

7 PM to 8 PM - Katie Bakewell (NLP Logix), Mike Manuele (AWS), Dan Richard (UNF Psychology)

$4,000 in prizes

• Evaluation Criteria
  Each participating team will be evaluated on their model performance and presentation of the results. Winners of the hackathon will be determined based on the below evaluation factor weightings and scores received.
• Presentation (20%)
  * Delivery of content (articulation, composure) * Appearance of content (clear and helpful visuals) * Organization of content * Q&A responses * Explanation of impact on stakeholders (e.g., First Tee, partners, youth) * Suggested next steps
• Model Performance (40%)
  * Communicate performance results * Technical terms explained
• Solution Approach (40%)
  * Originality/Creativity * Clearly defined positive impact on the environment * Feasibility to scale solution * Operational impact on First Tee
• Scoring Ratings
  5 = Excellent presentation on all counts 4 = Very good presentation with minor issues 3 = Pitch can be significantly improved but is satisfactory overall 2 = Pitch is incomplete and severely lacking 1 = Presenter fails to address the criteria