SyDAgHackathon

Open to everyone: students, researchers, scholars, post-docs, faculty, and industry. Bring your coding skills, your domain expertise, or both. If your roots are in agriculture, this is for you.

Teams and individuals welcome

New to hackathons?

What's a Hackathon?

A few days where small teams pick a real problem in agriculture and build something to solve it. You don't have to be a programmer. If you know the problem, you're exactly who a team needs.

The challenge

We'll present two tracks, one from Bayer and one from IoT4Ag. Pick the one that speaks to you and build your solution around it.

Agenda

Three days, September 25–27. ABE 1164 is home base for food and supplies.

Friday

Sept 25

Room ABE 1164

6:30 PM
Arrival: all teams and individuals must be here
Be on time
Opening presentation: rules and tracks
Dinner, and the hackathon officially starts
No team yet? We'll help you form one.

Saturday

Sept 26

ABE Building, 1st floor · Food & supplies in ABE 1164

9:00 AM
Breakfast
9–1 PM
Check in with the mentors: all teams
Required
12:00 PM
Lunch

Sunday

Sept 27

ABE Building, 1st floor · Food & supplies in ABE 1164

9:00 AM
Breakfast
Finalize your project and presentation
11:00 AM
Submit the final project form
Deadline
12:00 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM
Presentations

What you can win

Prizes

Cash plus a prize for every member of the winning teams.

1st Place

iPad

One per team member

+ $1,000

for the team

2nd Place

AirPods

One per team member

+ $600

for the team

3rd Place

Yeti Tumbler Kit

One per team member

+ $400

for the team

Computing Partner

Powered by RCAC

The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing brings the computing power to the hackathon, giving every team hands-on access to high-performance computing to train models and crunch data at scale.

Who you'll work with

Mentors

Industry Mentors

Bayer
- Mentor 1 (TBD)
- Mentor 2 (TBD)
- Mentor 3 (TBD)
Dan Kurdys
Managing Director, Strategic Growth · 9 North Group
Sudhir Sornapudi, Ph.D.
Leader, Advanced Vision Intelligence & Digital R&D · Corteva
Kavita Bhandari
Enterprise Data Architect · Corteva

Academia Mentors

RCAC
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing · Purdue University
IoT4Ag Faculty
NSF Engineering Research Center