Challenges
HACC 2023 Challenges!
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What you need to know
Here is a brief summary of the challenges for this year’s event. Use cases, videos and Slides provided below.
University of Hawaii – ITS Ask Us Challenge
This challenge is about creating an application that provides a conversational UX powered by AI, that supports a flexible and intuitive conversational search function to identify and retrieve relevant Ask Us articles and information. This tool would improve access to EXISTING information addressing frequently asked questions, and empowering customers to find the information by asking plain language questions (rather than first having to ask a Help Desk human).
Challenge Sponsor: Garret Yoshimi
Slack Channel: #c-uh-askus
Tyler Hawaii – Affordable Healthcare
This challenge is about creating a resource that helps underinsured or uninsured individuals find and access affordable healthcare in Hawaii. Your solution would help users to find the best options to meet their healthcare needs.
Challenge Sponsor: Nicolas Choy
Slack Channel: c-tyler-healthcare
Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) – Large Marine Debris Reporting, Dispatching & Documenting Platform
The Goal of this challenge is to determine the quantity of marine debris washing ashore in Hawaii, the efficiency of removal operations, and improve disposal options so they are more environmentally friendly. A user-friendly platform will increase accuracy & efficiencies of the process of collecting and dealing with the marine debris.
Challenge Sponsors: Jennifer Lynch
Slack Channel: c-hpu-marine-debris
Maui Institute of Art and Technology – Lahaina Digital Twin Project
The Goal of this challenge is to create a web portal that facilitates the civic engagement around how to rebuild Lahaina, Maui, including surveys, forums, sharing design concepts with visual and data models for economic, environmental, etc. analysis.
Challenge Sponsors: Jerry Isdale
Slack Channel: c-mioat-simlahaina
Zero Waste Oahu – Reusable Takeout Program App
This challenge is seeking a solution for tracking and retaining returnable containers from events and vendors. The goal of these containers is to reduce overall waste in circulation, but when they don’t get returned, it prevents the program from being sustainable. The apps need to track the containers and if not returned a fee is collected, this will help keep the program growing and sustainable!
Challenge Sponsors: Nicole Chatterson
Slack Channel: c-zerowaste-reusable
Remember you can also propose an open challenge. Meaning a problem that you or your school or your community is facing and you think there could be a technical solution and you can obtain data that addresses the problem, such as from data.hawaii.gov. Please send your idea to the HACC planning committee and they will let you know if you can work on your idea for this event. All Open Challenges must be approved by the committee to be eligible for prizes. Submit your challenge via DM to @Thelma on the hacc2023.slack.com workspace.