{"id":13299,"date":"2020-10-28T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2020-12-01T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T01:37:54","slug":"maryville-team-wins-geospatial-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/maryville-team-wins-geospatial-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Team Wins Geospatial Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ students known as the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Ethical Hackers<\/strong> won the 2020 Open Source Geospatial Hackathon<\/a>. Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ earned first place in the college division and took the overall grand prize, winning $3,500! <\/p>\n

Over competition weekend, teams of both professionals and college students competed to design innovative, geospatially-aware social media analysis solutions. These solutions were to be capable of detecting and displaying trends as they unfold and indicate future events.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½’s team was comprised of students Michael Hernandez, Hunter Williamson, Sophia Cykert, and Kortnea Little, working under the leadership of Professor Gabriel Attoun.<\/p>\n

“Our students are doing a great job analyzing and addressing these real-world problems using geospatial, machine learning, and analytical skills,” said Tammy Gocial, Ph.D., Interim Dean, John E. Simon School of Business and Associate Academic Vice President.<\/p>\n

This represents a second win for Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ in the past seven months, as a group of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Cyber Security and Data Science students won a similar competition in March.<\/p>\n

Sponsors of the competition included Bayer, Geospatial Innovation Center at T-Rex, AWS, CrunchyData, SafeGraph, the Geospatial Institute at Saint Louis U, USGIF, and 1904labs.<\/p>\n

Well done, Saints!<\/p>\n

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