Hoya Hacks 2024 Winning Entries Announced

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The winning entries have been announced for this year’s Hoya Hacks hackathon, which took place January 26-28 at the Healey Family Student Center.

Cloudforce’s Husein Sharaf and Microsoft’s Danielle Estrada deliver the Hoya Hacks 2024 opening ceremony keynote speech.

Hoya Hacks is Georgetown’s annual hackathon, or technology innovation event. Hundreds of students, from both Georgetown and other higher education institutions, participated in the hackathon. Hoya Hacks welcomes students with diverse skills and backgrounds to collaborate, innovate, and build solutions for positive social change.

For the competition, teams of 2-4 students worked for 36 hours over 3 days to collaborate, build, and innovate in both hardware and software to develop their entries.

Winning entries were chosen by a panel of judges composed of Georgetown Administrators, Alumni, and members of the technology industry. Awards (prizes) were given in a number of categories and tracks.

Image of Hoya Hacks 2024 first place winners. — First place winners Annika Lin, Maggie Shen, Reed Uhlik and Sameer Tirumala of Georgetown University.

Winning entries are listed below.

Hoya Hacks 2024 Winning Entries
Award	Winning Entry	Description
1st Place Overall	Skyline	3-D air traffic simulator of Urban Air Mobility vehicles.
2nd Place Overall	CheatGPT	Virtual “Hoya Helper” guide that helps high school students answer their common questions about going to college.
3rd Place Overall	DetectorInjector	Software that helps faculty detect student use of AI software in their assignments.
1st Place, Cloudforce Sponsor Track	CheatGPT	Virtual “Hoya Helper” guide that helps high school students answer their common questions about going to college.
2nd Place, Cloudforce Sponsor Track	Minus Numerals	Engages with, and answer questions from, prospective students interested in attending Drexel University.
1st Place, Cipher Tech Sponsor Track	The Insomniacs	Analyzes videos to identify specific events, saving time for users who need to locate short events in lengthy videos.
1st Place, Collins Aerospace Sponsor Track	Skyline	3-D air traffic simulator of Urban Air Mobility vehicles.
1st Place, Engie Sponsor Track	PlatePal	Collaborative and sustainable platform for college students to effectively manage their excess groceries.
2nd Place, Engie Sponsor Track	Pyramids	Allows Georgetown students to better learn about different opportunities to engage on campus sustainably.
Go Daddy MLH Track	PlatePal	Collaborative and sustainable platform for college students to effectively manage their excess groceries.
MongoDB MLH Track	CyberCrustacean’s Push	App that utilizes proven motivational practices to enable users to do small acts of kindness each day.
Fidelity MLH Track	Oyster	Matches potential investors with small businesses looking for investment by making the fundraising process around small and micro businesses easier.
Taipy MLH Track	Basa	Searches for a recipe that aligns with most, and possibly all, ingredients that a user lists.