Team member: Sophia Heicksen, Nolan Keefe, Jackson Singley, and Samantha Paez

Team Trash Defenderz took home the 1st place prize, each winning a Nintendo Switch, for their outstanding submission in the Best Beginner Hack category! This category challenged teams to identify a need in their local community and develop a technological solution that makes an issue more accessible and encourages community involvement. With most of their team consisting of beginners in their technology careers (0-3 semesters of computer science classes), we are incredibly proud of their creative solution and teamwork. Congratulations, Trash Defenderz!

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Congratulations to team Fanum for winning 2nd place in the Best Beginner Hack category! Each team member got to take home their own set of Amazon Fire Stick, Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire Tablet!

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Team Members: Shaurya Kumar, Chinmay Agrawal and Luis Infantes

Team Type Evolve secured 1st place, each taking home an iPad Air, for their brilliant project in the Best CS Educational Technology Hack category! This category asked participants to find innovative ways to incorporate Computer Science into common curriculum subjects like Math, English, or Science to enhance student engagement. Their creative approach to integrating technology into education truly stood out to the judges. Congratulations to Type Evolve on this well-deserved win!

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Team members: Connor Saunders, Regis Jet Puebla, Maxwell Wang, and Matt Boraske

Team members: Ariacmc Pike, Daniel Chen, Vansh Bataviya

Congratulations to team Henlingo for winning 2nd place for their creative application that helps learning sign language become more accessible. Each team member got to take home their own pair of 2nd Gen AirPod Pros!

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Team members: Andrew Crispino, Maanav Rao, Jasnoor Saini, and Mateo Torres

Congratulations to HandSlate for winning 1st place in the Best Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Hack category, with each team member receiving an Apple Watch Series 9! HandSlate impressed the judges by addressing a significant communication barrier—creating a tool that translates American Sign Language (ASL) into written text during video calls. This innovative use of generative AI and machine learning is a step forward in making virtual communication more inclusive for ASL speakers. Amazing work, HandSlate!

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Congratulations to Team Sound-ificator-inator for winning 1st place in the Best Accessibility Hack category, with each member taking home a pair of Sony Headphones! Their project offers a thoughtful solution for individuals with sensory issues, allowing users to block out unwanted sounds and replace them with a customized audio environment of their choice. By utilizing real-time data to create spatial audio, Sound-ificator-inator opens up new possibilities for sensory accessibility. Well done, Team Sound-ificator-inator!

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Team members: Blair Felker, Blade Tyrrell, Michael Snead

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Team members: Brandon Nauta, Selin Bacaz

Congratulations to team DyslexEase for winning 2nd place for their project that helps dyslexic students in learning settings. Each team member received a set of Keyboard, Mouse, and Mousepad!

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Team members: Sneha Nangelimalil, Aparna Roy, and Benita Abraham

Congratulations to Talk to the Hand for winning 1st place in the LabWare - Connections category, each earning a Meta Quest 2! This project aims to bridge communication gaps by enhancing accessibility and connectivity through American Sign Language (ASL). With three key features—a speech-to-ASL translator, a text-to-ASL translator, and an ASL learning hub—their site empowers both the deaf and hearing communities to connect more seamlessly. Incredible work, Talk to the Hand! 

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Congratulations to govAIde for winning 2nd place in the LabWare-Connections category! Each team member got to take home a JBL Speaker, a water bottle, and a backpack!

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Team Members: Christian Munley

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For the 1st place prize in the Bank of America - Financial Hack category, Lambda-Check developed a Haskell audit tool for the command-line interface (CLI) that identifies CVEs, flags causes of segmentation faults, detects buffer overflows, and highlights unsafe thread actions. This robust tool enhances software security by addressing critical vulnerabilities, earning them each an Xbox Series X. Congratulations to Lambda-Check for their outstanding achievement!

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Team member James Montebell and Community Volunteers from Bank of America

Not pictured: Brian Bowers, Dustin T. O'Brien, Isaac Dugan

Team members Rostin Shokri, Omar Ahmed, Mohammad Samer Abdul Munim Al Ratrout and Community Volunteer from Bank of America

Congratulations to team AwakeOverFlow for winning 2nd place for building a VSCode extension that analyzes and fixes vulnerable C/C++ and Java code. They each received an Acer Monitor.

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