The eighth edition of Hack TUES Infinity took place in the presence of the Minister of Education, Acad. Nikolai Denkov. On March 13, Hack TUES Infinity - the eighth edition of the unique hackathon organized by students for students, held at the Technological University "Electronic Systems" (TUES) of the Technical University - Sofia, took place. With greetings from the school director, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Stela Stefanova, and the Minister of Education and Science, Acad. Nikolai Denkov, 224 students developed their projects over two days, which they presented to a jury of IT specialists and teachers from TUES. In Hack TUES, participants do not know what topic they will work on until the start of the hackathon. In the fully online competition, the topics were revealed through a discussion by three specially selected lecturers: Asen Mutafov, astronom from the Rozhen Observatory, Assoc. Prof. Kamen Kozarev from the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Tatyana Ivanova, a student of Engineering Physics and participant in many prestigious NASA camps. This year's event theme was Beyond the Boundaries - technologies related to the exploration of deep space and bionics. During the development of their projects, students had at their disposal 50 mentors from the IT sector who helped them with advice and expertise.
Winners
The first place was taken by the Lemniskata system, which evaluates the probability of a successful landing on a cosmic terrain - asteroids, planets, and moons, based on climatic conditions and terrain altitude. The creators of the project are the twelfth-grade students from the "Lemniskata" team - Violeta Kabadzhova, Zahari Momchilov, Kristian Stoimenov, Martin Weyer, and Stoyan Tinchev, and the technologies they used are Next JS, Docker, and Python. The award was presented by the Rector of the Technical University - Sofia - Prof. Dr. Eng. Ivan Kralov. The second place went to the team "Cats with Thumbs". The eleventh-grade students - Nikolay Lazarov, Hristian Radev, Yosef Hamed, and Yoan Djelegarski from the 12th grade. They created SPIM - a system for supporting the exploration of Mars. The system contains several components - main stations that monitor the conditions on the planet and smaller pocket devices that alert astronauts to deviations from the norms. The award was presented by the scientific supervisor of TUES at TU-Sofia - Tanya Vasileva. The third place was taken by the team "TtT". They created - TtT pager, a system of pagers that help overcome the language barrier on the International Space Station. The tenth-grade students from the "TtT" team - Yoan Ivanov, Zhivko Nusev, Dimitar Dimitrov, Georgi Fidanov, and Radoslav Filipov. The award was presented by part of the organizational team of Hack TUES GG, the seventh edition of the hackathon. The majority of the projects, finalists in Hack TUES Infinity, combine software and hardware solutions. Among the main benefits of participating in the hackathon, the students mention the opportunity to get to know and test new technologies, work with IT sector professionals, learn "soft skills", present their ideas, and discover specific directions for their future professional development. Among the awarded projects in Hack TUES in previous years are a web application that recommends cycling routes based on air pollution in the city, a chatbot with an educational purpose on the topic of environmental protection, a robot that detects and collects waste, an automated package delivery system with drones, a 60-year-old radio that uses new technologies, a Chrome browser extension that checks whether the content a person reads is propaganda, a project for virtual representation of a high-tech home, an embedded device with a camera and artificial intelligence to assist blind people, an application for text summarization using neural networks, and a 2D simulation of a genetic algorithm.
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Karieri.bg, 15.03.2022
