UTS Rapido & Marintec Hackathon - UTS Tech Festival 2024

UTS Rapido & Marintec Hackathon

Welcome aboard the Marintec and UTS Rapido Hackathon at Tech Fest 2024, hosted at UTS. In this event, we aim to use gamification with AI and Machine Learning, and other software solutions to tackle a pressing education/training challenge faced on board Australian naval ships.  

Scene-Setting: I am an operator on board a naval ship, an alarm sounds... part of the ship’s system needs attention. What system is that alarm associated with? What do I need to know about that system? How to I address it? I can’t get it wrong... There’s a lot to consider in a short space of time. 

Solving any ship-based issues correctly and efficiently is critical. The environment dictates minimum room for error and expediated problem resolution. It’s hard for crew members to commit all correction procedures to memory, so a ship’s crew will inevitably rely on technical manuals, policies, procedures and safety instructions to ensure they solve the problem correctly. But, given the nature and severity of the alarm, it may feel too long and laborious to find the instructions they need. What creative software solution could help to identify, address, and solve the issue when an alarm rings, to improve this experience?

This hackathon will deploy software techniques to help transfer manual based procedural knowledge in real time, in an engaging way, with the goal of correct understanding of actions and procedures while improving knowledge retention. Your creative solutions will help develop new visual and data solutions to solve the problem. The challenge will be to use software solutions to deliver pages of mostly text based / schematic content into an engaging training methodology quickly and in real time.  

Industry experts will be on hand to help you understand the problem, the ship environment, consider any dependencies and how to capture outcomes in an engaging way. 

***Hackathon Details***

Date: Monday 17 - Tuesday 18 June 2024
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: UTS Building 7, Level 03, 10B 10G

Additional Info: The above location is the primary meeting point for the hackathon but participants are free to work from any location on or off-campus that suits them. The location will be open from the time period above for both days and organising staff will be present during these times. This hackathon is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

Who is invited: All UTS students from all faculties. There are only 80 spots though so make sure you register quick! (and please only register if you are certain you will come on the day)

Event Organisers: UTS Rapido, Marintec, and the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT.

***Program Details***

Monday, 17 June (Day 1)

10:00 AM – Kick-off, Industry Introductions & Orientation
10:30 AM – Problem Definition
11.00 AM – User Experience & Environment
12:00 PM – Lunch Break
1:00 PM – Team Formation
1:30 PM – Co-design Ideation Session
5.00 PM – End of hosted session

Tuesday, 18 June (Day 2)

10:00 AM – Prototype Development
12:00 PM – Lunch Break
1:00 PM – Testing & Refinement, Pitch Preparation
4:00 PM – Final Pitches & Award Ceremony
5.00 PM – End of session

Prizes: Cash prizes will be awarded in various categories. Winners will also be invited to attend the Tech Fest Awards Night to acknowledge their achievements and receive a certificate.

Team Sizes: Teams will be formed on the day of the event and will vary in sizes.

Theme and objectives: These will be announced during the kick-off and orientation section on day 1.

Food: Light refreshments and afternoon tea will be provided on both days, but participants are also encouraged to bring their own food and plenty of water.

Please register your attendance by Friday 14 June 2024.

About Marintec 

https://navantia.com.au/marint...    

Maritime Institute of Technology – is a game-changing partnership between Navantia Australia and the University of Technology Sydney. 

Marintec aims to nurture Australia's sovereign capability in the maritime sector through cutting edge research and development (R&D) in digital technologies. With the resources and expertise of Navantia Australia, combined with the knowledge and facilities of UTS, the Marintec team bringc together the best of academia and industry.

About UTS Rapido 

https://www.rapido.uts.edu.au

UTS Rapido is an impact-focused R&D innovation hub, embedded within UTS. 

• Bridging the gap between academia and industry: Our professional engineers, R&D experts and skilled project managers collaborate with UTS world-class researchers, facilities and labs to deliver projects for our industry and social impact partners.  

• Gateway to a comprehensive university-wide engineering and IT ecosystem: Through customer-centric professionalism and strategic engagement, we enable entry into a comprehensive university-wide engineering and IT ecosystem. 

• Providing professional level multi-disciplinary core services: A multi-disciplinary innovation hub with professional R&D engagement and project management. 

• Delivering industry impact: Supporting start-ups, SMEs and corporations, UTS Rapido provides industry focused, engineering and technology solutions to develop cutting edge products and services.  

• Rapido Social Impact: We support our purposeful partners to expand their impact and help solve societal problems, by developing engineering and technology-based solutions on a low-bono basis. 

This event is hosted with:

Please contact Aimee.Welstead@uts.edu.au if you have any questions about this event.

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