Website: https://animalhack.org/ 

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZBbTxuxND2 

Email: animalhack1@gmail.com

Apparel (light colors): https://www.bonfire.com/animalhack-2023-apparel-wear/

Apparel (dark colors): https://www.bonfire.com/animalhack-2023-dark-apparell/

Mug cup: https://www.bonfire.com/animalhack-2023-mug/

Prize Winners

Grand Prix (1st Place):

"Hydrate Cat" by Yuma Karube

2nd Place:

"Squirrel repeller" by Shun Nagata & Rei Nagata

3rd Place:

"Pet Picker - A Simple Approach to Finding Your Perfect Pet" by Soham Vij

Honorable Mentions:

"Cloud-assisted Electronic Deer Repeller" by Hanna Suzuki

"pawprint" by Tyo An

"Motorized scarecrow with infrared laser detection system and camera" by Shuntaro Sato

"Celo Pets" by Udogwu Emiri & Grace Okunomo

Excellence in Creativity Award:

"Petupia" by Zana Yan

Emerging Talent Award:

"Virtual Pet Adoption Center" by Dharshini Venkatesan

AnimalHack is a student-organized hackathon for anyone who interacts with any animals - including pets, service animals, farm animals and wild animals. We were disappointed with the lack of international, open hackathons that focus on animals, so we started our own. 

AnimalHack is a platform that inspires you to think of needs, wants and challenges in interacting with animals. It is intended to help you ignite creative solutions (hacks) with technology and innovate human-animal relationships. 

AnimalHack welcomes anyone of all ages and all technical skills, from limited experience to advanced. 

Entry is free. 

Expected project topics include, but are not limited to: 

* Contributing to animal wellbeing 

* Assisting animal owners 

* Assisting animal adoptions 

* Monitoring, conserving and improving the environment around animals 

* Observing, tracing and protecting wild animals 

* Breeding, rearing/farming and harvesting animals 

* Managing nuisance issues with wildlife

* Addressing animal abuse, cruelty and illegal capture/trade 

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, robots, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, information retrieval, and 3-dimensional modeling/printing. 

AnimalHack is a “flexible” online hackathon. Participants can work on their projects anytime until the event starts. Each participant/team is required to submit a project presentation title and contact information by 6pm on September 9 (Sat), EST. 

AnimalHack will take place at 1pm on September 10 (Sun), EST. Each participant/team will deliver a project presentation (~10 minutes) online. Various awards are available. A panel of judges will select award winners at the end of the event. 

AnimalHack is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

Organizers:

Yuma Karube (Co-chair)

Yua Murakami

Banri Ouchi

Sarasa Ouchi (Co-chair)

Hanna Suzuki

Sougou Tojima

• Impact
  How much impact (quality and quantity) can this project have? Does it solve a big problem or a small problem? Will it inspire or help many or a few?
• Creativity
  How creative/innovative is this project? Is it something that hasn't been attempted before, or is it an incremental improvement on something that already exists?
• Presentation
  How well did the team/individual communicate this project? Was the presentation effective in telling the story of the project: why it is important, what challenge it addresses, and how it delivers a solution?