Winner: Hiat حياة
Presentation Order: 7
Description: Connecting skilled refugees and the local community in an easy-to-use gig-economy platform.
Mentor: Islam El-Ashi (Software Engineer Twitter)
Students: Camilo Luciano (Universidad de Buenos Aires,
2nd Place: 3ndi Headache (I Have a Headache)
Presentation Order: 9
Description: Automating triage nurses.
Mentors: Razan Qraini (WebTeb, Senior Android Developer, Palestine), Varun Arora (CEO, OpenCurriculum, USA) and Lingliang Zhang (NYUAD, UK)
Students: Daniel Watson (NYUAD, UAE), Khalid Abul Borghol (AUS, UAE), Hayat Al Hasan (NYUAD, UAE),
3rd Place: Tarakeeb تراكيب
Presentation Order: 4
Description: An automated grammar checker to teach Arabic.
Mentors: Anas Shahrour (Hamza Founder, UAE), Balsam Alkouz (University of Sharjah Research Assistant, UAE), David Warr (Language Garden Ltd, Founder, UK), Hanan Hadad (Lynx Vision Graphic Designer, UAE) and Saeed Motamed (
Students: Lama Ahmad (NYUAD, UAE), Fahmi Alnajjar (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan), Maha Amjad (NUCES FAST, Pakistan), Skye
3rd Place: AnNahr النهر (The Stream)
Presentation Order: 10
Description: An interactive hardware/software solution that addresses the issue of water wastage during the Wudhu (ablution) at the Masjid (mosques) by providing feedback to the user in an attempt to raise awareness and change their behavior, encouraging positive water saving.
Mentors: Fahim Dalvi (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Sama Kanbour (General Electric, Qatar) and Joyce Zhang (Boston Consulting Group, US)
Students: Zakaria
Audience Winner: Teslam تسلم
Presentation Order: 8
Description: Service to visualize actionable data in the Arab world related to NCDs (specifically obesity & diabetes) through big data & machine learning, to share with government and business entities, and to educate the targeted subjects of these diseases through a conversational intelligent chat bot.
Mentors: Farah Shamout (University of Oxford,
Students: Athra Al Khatri (UAE University, UAE), Shahan Ali Memon (Carnegie Mellon University, Pakistan), Leanne Dsouza (Middlesex University Dubai, UAE), Khalid
Tabboush طبوش
Presentation Order: 6
Description: Tabboush is the name of a virtual pet companion to assist autistic children coping with
Mentors: Bassem Dghaidi (SE Factory, Technical Director, Lebanon), Muneeza Patel (MIT, McKinsey, UAE) and Dani Arnaout (CTO at Saily, Lebanon)
Students: Randa ElBehery (Cairo University, Egypt), Hera Arif (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Anas Einea (University of Sharjah, UAE), Nouf Alsaedi (UAE University, UAE), Alaa Maarouf (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) and Noura Ismail Hussain (Khalifa University, UAE)
Areni أرني (Show Me)
Presentation Order: 1
Description: Connecting resettled youth refugees with local volunteer teachers
Mentors:
Students: Mariam Garba (University Of Ilorin, Nigeria), Zach Sorenson (Stanford University, USA), Shaikha Aldoukhi (Khalifa University, UAE) and Sana Khiari (INSAT, Tunisia)
Transparent مكشوف
Description: A platform to encourage people to donate more confidently by improving the financial integrity of charities,
Mentors: Stephen Lang (Cornell Tech, UX Designer, USA) and Ken Leland (VYDIA, CTO, USA)
Students: Ahmad Ilaiwi (Najah Palestine), Amaan Kulshrestha (Birla Institute of Technology, India), Anas Aloweiwi (University of Jordan), Manaf Alanaze (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Param Singh (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India) and Azzabi Najwa (University Hassan 1st, Morocco)
Musaeada مساعدة (Helping)
Presentation Order: 3
Description: SMS-based personal crisis broadcaster
Mentor: Aidan Feldman (Engineer at 18F)
Students: Shirley Mao (University of Waterloo, Canada) Rashiq Zahid (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Samridha Shrestha (NYUAD, UAE) Jaisal Friedman, (NYUAD, UAE), Naomi Pentrel (University of Oxford, UK) and Kunal Malhotra (BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus)
Feel Better اشعر بتحسن
Presentation Order: 5
Description: An Arabic-speaking virtual assistant that engages with the user and uses machine learning to assess their mental health and happiness levels.
Mentors: Baris Yuksel (Former Google Engineer, Turkey), Tiffany Tong (Project Coordinator NYUAD, UAE) and Fabricio Pontes Harsich (Google, Argentina)
Students: Marisa Chow (Princeton University, USA), Walid Abismail (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’informatique, ESI ex INI, Algeria), Muhammad Owais (University of Sharjah, UAE), Brook Hopkins (NYUAD, UAE) and Einea Omar (University of Sharjah, UAE)
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In the News - 2020
English
- Medium | April 20, 2020
NYUAD Hack2020 Experience from a Technical Mentor & Organizer’s Perspective. - Abu Dhabi Education Guide | April 20, 2020
Website That Connects Medical Workers With Hospitals Facing Staffing Shortages Wins First Place At NYU Abu Dhabi’s First Virtual Hackathon - Emirates News Agency | April 14, 2020
New York University Abu Dhabi to host 2020 Annual International Hackathon for Social Good on April 16-19 - Arabian Reseller | April 14, 2020
Virtual Hackathon to be Held to Tackle COVID-19 Challenges - Urdu Point | April 14, 2020
NYU Abu Dhabi Holds First Ever Virtual Hackathon To Tackle COVID-19 Challenges - The Pakistan Post | April 14, 2020
NYU Abu Dhabi holds first ever virtual Hackathon to tackle COVID-19 challenges
Arabic
- Al Khaleej | April 22, 2020
موقع مجاني يربط موظفي الرعاية الطبية بالمستشفيات - Al Fajr | April 22, 2020
موقع الإلكتروني يربط موظفي الرعاية الطبية بالمستشفيات يفوز بالمركز الأول ضمن مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية السنوية - Emirates News Agency | April 21, 2020
"بطل الصحة" يحصد المركز الأول في مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية - Al Ittihad | April 21, 2020
«البطل» يربط موظفي الرعاية الطبية بالمستشفيات - Al Roeya's Twitter | April 21, 2020
Sana Odeh's Video - Nabd | April 21, 2020
Sana Odeh's Video - Al Dostor | April 21, 2020
جامعة الأميرة سمية تحقّق المركز الأول في مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية - Urdu Point | April 21, 2020
"بطل الصحة" يحصد المركز الأول في مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية - Bedaya | April 21, 2020
أسباب فوز موقع “بطل الصحة” بمسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية - Emirates News Agency | April 14, 2020
"نيويورك أبوظبي" تستضيف النسخة التاسعة من مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية عبر الإنترنت - Al Khaleeji | April 15, 2020
جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي تستضيف «الهاكاثون» عبر الإنترنت - Al Bayan | April 15, 2020
مسابقة الهاكاثون تبتكر حلولاً للحد من آثار «كورونا» - Al Fajr | April 15, 2020
جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي تستضيف النسخة التاسعة من مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية السنوية عبر الإنترنت - Al Wahda News | April 14, 2020
“نيويورك أبوظبي” تستضيف النسخة التاسعة من مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية عبر الإنترنت - Urdu Point | April 14, 2020
"نيويورك أبوظبي" تستضيف النسخة التاسعة من مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية عبر الإنترنت - Al Iqtisadi | April 14, 2020
- Saada Online | April 14, 2020
جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي تستضيف مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية السنوية عبر الإنترنت - Bedaya | April 14, 2020
انطلاق مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية 16 أبريل الحالي في أبوظبي - UAE News | April 14, 2020
'نيويورك أبوظبي' تستضيف النسخة التاسعة من مسابقة الهاكاثون الدولية عبر الإنترنت