Participation in the Hackathon
1. Any student who currently studies in one of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, or one of the universities that are listed below is permitted to register for the Hackathon.
2. An online registration process will enable candidate registration.
3. The BME-Hack Committee is permitted, at its discretion, to ask for additional information from the candidates in the process of their evaluation, such as online interviews, information in writing, etc.
4. The challenges on which the teams will work, will be offered by the participants during the registration process.
5. The challenge must be in the medical field (e.g. needs related to improving medical treatment, prevention of diseases and their complications, diagnosis or prognosis of medical conditions, improving a medical-related process, disease management,
and remote monitoring).
a. Part of the selected challenges will be in any medical field and business-oriented
b. Part of the selected challenges will be focused on rehabilitation and assistive technologies and oriented to the creation of affordable, open-source solutions for people with disabilities.
6. The BME-Hack Committee may interact with the candidate to guide them to improve the challenge presentation, change or tune its focus before its publication.
7. The candidate should validate that there are no currently exsisting good solutions for the challenge according to the publicly available information.
8. The challenge and the suggested solution cannot be based on work developed or in development by one of the team members in any organized form (e.g. within the framework of an engineering project, a graduate degree such as Thesis Ph.D., other
Hackathon event, etc.). It should be noted that in an event of such a violation a team will lose its ability to participate in the competition.
9. The decision of the BME-Hack Committee to disregard a challenge is not open to appeal and the committee is not required to provide a reason for its decision.
10. The participants will grade all proposed challenges based on clinical and commercial or social value as well as their interest to take part in a team working on their solutions. The challenges with the highest votes will be the selected challenges
for the Hackathon.
11. The BME-Hack Committee will form teams with an effort to assign each participant to a challenge that he graded with a high score.
12. Each team will consist of up to 6 participants. 2 students in each team will be from the Technion Biomedical Engineering faculty, providing sufficient registration of suitable candidates. An effort will be made to create multi-national and multi-disciplinary
teams.
13. Pre-Hackathon lectures:
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Time (IST)
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Event
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Content
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April 25, 2022,18:00
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Opening lecture
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Entrepreneurship in the medical field, opportunity evaluation
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May, 2, 2022, 18:00
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a. Lecture
b. Teamwork
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a. User-centered design
b. Concept formation
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