The one-day hackathon hackademIA is a special edition of Hackathon Piaget, a hackathon series organized annually by the UNIGE’s SDG Solution Space and partners since 2022. This hackathon series is dedicated to innovations for teaching and learning, in the spirit of Jean Piaget, a pedagogical pioneer of the University of Geneva.
This year, Hackathon Piaget celebrates the centennial of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), which Piaget directed from its inception and for nearly 40 years. It is also 50 years since “the oldest debate in AI” took place between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky, inspiring some of the lead researchers in AI today to enter the field of Machine Learning.
hackademIA also builds on the track record of an institutional hackathon called Hackademia, managed by the Bureau de la Transformation of the Rectorate of the University of Geneva, which has successfully brought together members of the UNIGE staff and student community to solve practical challenges facing the University for the last four years.
The hackademIA event runs from 9am-5pm on Saturday 22 November at the SDG Solution Space. Challenges will be posted on this webpage as of 14 November and team formation will occur based on project preferences while ensuring an overall balanced participation.
This hackathon is closed for applications. If you have already applied, you will be informed of whether you have been accepted by Friday 14 November.
12 Challenges have been selected:
- MindMoodle: AI Mental Health Companion on Moodle
- SmartSync: Adaptive Academic Calendar using AI
- EduRisk: Cognitive Models for Risk Literacy
- RefCheck: Open LLM for Bibliographic Integrity
- fAIrbots: Teaching Chatbots to Be Fair
- SmartFeedback: AI-Powered Learning Coach
- BlockLearn: Documenting hackademIA in Minecraft
- BeeCoach: Open-Source AI for Hackathon Teams
- PolyPitch: Inclusive Multilingual AI-assisted Pitching
- HackSpace2030: An AI-generated vision for future student spaces
- PiaGPT: The Experiential Learning Avatar of Jean Piaget
- HackCred: Micro-Certification for Hackathons using AI evaluation
Teams will be formed based on matching participants skills and interests to project topics.