30-31st March - International Hackhathon
The event was led by the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management in cooperation with the Student Association at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Two hundred people took part in this immersive event. Students from abroad, Israeli students and people from the hi-tech ecosystem of Israel’s Negev region worked together in teams in an intensive 28-hour period to create new technologies for the future, and presented these new, unique technologies at the end of the hackathon.
”The theme of the hackathon: “Improving the Life of Students On-Campus and Off-Campus.” Technological, social, and business projects generated in the hackathon dealt with all stages of student life from the moment the students come to university up to post-graduation life, by helping students with their studies, improving their daily life and the quality of life on campus, support or help students in the emerging job market, etc.
Participation in this unique hackathon offered hands-on business experience and highly qualified professional support. This hackathon was a unique opportunity for students from all over the world to work together in creating a new technology that may have the potential to grow and succeed commercially
Ben-Gurion University
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is one of Israel’s leading research universities and among the world leaders in many fields .
It has around 20,000 students and 4,000 faculty members in the Faculties of Engineering Sciences; Health Sciences; Natural Sciences; the Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management; the Joyce and Irving Goldman School of Medicine; the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies; and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies.
More than 100,000 alumni play important roles in all areas of research and development, industry, health care, the economy, society, culture and education in Israel.
The University has three main campuses: The Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva; the research campus at Sede Boqer and the Eilat Campus, and is home to national and multi-disciplinary research institutes: the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev; the National Institute of Solar Energy; the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology; the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; the Ben- Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, and Heksherim - The Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture.
"Aspires to be among the best inter-disciplinary research universities in the world, a leader in scientific innovation, inter-disciplinary research and applied sciencs. It is committed to social and environmental responsibility and is working to develop the Negev, Israel and the world." It has around 20,000 students and 4,000 faculty members
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