{"613449":{"#nid":"613449","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HackGT Fast-Tracks Student Inventors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the uninitiated, a hackathon is an exercise in collaboration. People get creative through the power and potential of technology \u0026shy;\u0026ndash; and teams consider a problem or an idea and then develop websites, apps, and other high-tech solutions to address it. Think of it as a high-tech invention marathon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is no surprise that for the past five years Georgia Tech has hosted one of the largest collegiate hackathons in the U.S., or that dozens of companies have lined up to sponsor the event, including Facebook, Lyft, GM, Disney, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and NCR, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, more than 1,000 participants from 80 different colleges and institutions gathered on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2018.hack.gt\/?fbclid=IwAR0rTnnM4lWpZ0MmuuobqS4F3CvEY_9eLqr3xHc0aCdQijrvAyCcwiA0TgE\u0022\u003ETech campus for HackGT\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Oct. 19 to 21, as student teams worked nonstop on formulating their ideas and developing their projects, HackGT provided workshops and fireside chats with event sponsors, as well as mentors from business and industry to share their guidance and expertise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENew to the world of hackathons? No problem. Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s student organizers say they wanted to create an environment in which everyone felt welcome. Forty-four percent of the attendees at this year\u0026rsquo;s hackathon were newcomers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWinning projects were selected at the end of three days \u0026mdash; and they were unfailingly impressive, especially given the time constraints.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFour students from four different schools developed a tool they call Vocapture. It uses computer vision to identify objects to help English learners expand their vocabulary. The technology incorporates a smartphone camera to provide real-time text identifying the objects in view. (In one demonstration, \u0026ldquo;chair,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;desk,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;table,\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;door\u0026rdquo; appeared when scanning a classroom.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team noted that 2 billion people will be learning English by 2020, and hoped a tool like this might give them an advantage in honing their language skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA student from Auburn University spent his hackathon weekend developing a bot to write a freestyle rap on any given topic. WikiBeat uses natural language processing to scan for information from the internet and matches phrases up into couplets, then lays down a beat to match the generated lyrics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hack.gt\/events\/\u0022\u003ETo learn more about HackGT and related events, click here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHackGT is one of America\u0026#39;s largest student-run hackathons, giving student innovators the opportunity to build and share creations over the course of a weekend in a relaxed and high-energy atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 1,000 students from 80 different schools came to Georgia Tech for a weekend of fast-paced ideation and innovation. "}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2018-10-29 20:31:44","changed_gmt":"2018-10-29 21:10:43","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613451":{"id":"613451","type":"image","title":"HackGT Fast-Tracks Student Inventors","body":null,"created":"1540845518","gmt_created":"2018-10-29 20:38:38","changed":"1540845518","gmt_changed":"2018-10-29 20:38:38","alt":"HackGT is a weekend innovation event held at Georgia Tech. Students camped out in the floor of Klaus to take part. 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