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Bill Crothers S.S. (In-person + Virtual!)
March 3-4, 2023
YRHacks is a YRDSB Hackathon run by students, for students.
Interested in participating in YRHacks 2023? Stay tuned for sign-ups in Spring 2023 by joining our mailing list!
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350
students from 25+ schools
70+
projects submitted
25+
mentors and sponsors
Participate in over a dozen workshops to learn various skills such as web development and graphic design, as well as fun activities!
Network with industry professionals and learn about the latest trends in technology!
Meet other talented students and work together to create something amazing, and win cool prizes and swag!
Winners of YRHacks 2022
First Place
ETrash
Created by: Gary Niu, Eric Zhang
A household bin which uses Tensorflow to sort and organise garbage, with data hosted on a website. Based on Raspberry Pi.
Second Place
Discord Defender
Created by: Timothy Ivtchenko, Danyal Amini, Adam Chen
Discord Defender is a Discord bot that makes use of a virus scanner and its API to keep server members safe from malicious links and files.
Third Place
C-ing Clearly
Created by: Jeslyn Zhang, Thisha Sudhakaran, Rosalyn Tu
A new online prescription test that is free of charge and usable anywhere in the world. Thanks to our scaling algorithm, your score will be converted to an accurate prescription based on the Canadian valid optical prescription criteria. C-ing clearly is the new advancement to affordable, accessible, and efficient healthcare.
Fourth Place
Study Shoal
Created by: Sophia Nguyen, Kevin Ge, Kenneth Liu
Covid has disrupted our lives in many aspects especially our education. Students are forced to learn in isolation so we designed an online meeting site, specialized for students to join into study sessions with their fellow classmates but also with people from different schools whom are taking the same classes.
Fifth Place
LOOPlayer
Created by: Ishaan Dey, Ryan Zhu, Nima Dehkordi
LOOPlayer is an innovative tool for incredibly engaging and augmented music education. Young musicians will be able to create amazing and creative music pieces with only a computer keyboard!
Sixth Place
Healthy Eats
Created by: Jessie Chee, Zoe Su, Bethany Lam
Our project is a website designed to encourage healthy eating by incorporating recipes and instructions for the 3 meals of the day; breakfast, lunch and dinner. It also includes the total time to prepare the dishes, the serving sizes, substitution for certain foods for restrictive diets, and also educating the readers about healthy and unhealthy eating lifestyles.
Best Pitch
TaskBot
Created by: Eric Zou, Angel Ma, Carlton Qian, Lynn Tao
TaskBot is a Discord bot that allows for more efficiency for all ages. The bot allows users to create tasks and check them off with ease using features, including prioritization, rewards, community engagement. Furthermore, the bot is user-friendly and easy to utilize with numerous commands and assistance tools.
Best Web App
LiveTok
Created by: David Kofman, Isaac Kogan
A web-app that revolutionizes TikTok's LIVE service for both creators and viewers, LiveTok provides additional features genuinely never seen before on the platform such as: user statistics, leaderboards, giveaways, and more. LiveTok makes use of custom software to read TikTok's live chats and perform data processing on them accordingly.
Best Game
Bullet Cell
Created by: Jake Zhang, Jason Chen, Melanie Ye, Kevin Wang
Our project Bullet Cell is a simple top-down bullet hell with roguelike elements and explosive edge-of-your-seat gameplay. It is a game developed on GreenFoot with inspiration from 'Itta' and 'Soul Knight'. It has easy to understand controls and ever increasing difficulty. The core aspect of our game is that both the enemies and the player becomes stronger as the game progresses, giving the player a constant challenge.
Best Bot/AI
The GoodEye Bot
Created by: Terry Su, Marcus Lee
The GoodEye Bot is currently a Discord bot that allows users to perform a variety of engaging actions on images of their choice. This includes but is not limited to: text to image generation, object classification, and image colorization.
Best User Interface
Jengo
Created by: Mekaeel Malik, Martin Baldwin, Sandra Huang, Jasmine Yip
Have fun and socialise with your friends online with Jengo! Like the real-life game of Jenga, remove blocks and gain points by stopping the block at the right time, and try not to knock the tower over!
Best Use of API
Friend Bot
Created by: William Wu, William Tao, Luke Zhan, Andrew Chu
Have you ever been up on Discord at night, searching for someone to talk to? Look no further! Friend bot is a Co:here-powered bot meant to respond to your messages! With Friend Bot, you will always have a companion to talk to, and you'll never be lonely again!
Best Use of Database
Ameratt
Created by: Amer Sangha, Matthey Dylan So
A simple chat room application that allows users to sign in with their google accounts and chat to others. Messages are stored on a cloud database.
Education Prize
Codedash
Created by: Chris Liu, Doris Lam, Andrew Yeung, Jacky Guo
An educational coding game similar to Wordle which accepts user submissions.
Health & Wellness Prize
Maskan
Created by: Handan Ozkurt, Hossein Heydarinejad, Kaneisha Thusyanthan, Stephanie Tong
With the lifting of mask mandates, some people fear entering stores due to not knowing whether other patrons in the store are masked. To combat this, our project enables an AI created using OpenCV and Python to transfer data to a website displaying the number of masked and unmasked customers.
ELL Prize
Hamster Portal
Created by: Alex Xu, Langchen "Felix" Peng
Hamster Portal is a level-based strategy casual game. It is written in Java, with our own rendering engine that was built on OpenGL/LWJGL3. The main goal of this game is to use bombs to launch and transfer those little hamsters into the portals.
Voiceflow: Best Use of Voiceflow
Automated Shopper Helper
Created by: Jason Wu
A bot that can help users find critical information about items in a store. Information such as the price, location, the amount of the item in stock. Additionally the bot allows the user to place a home order, confirming the order with a SMS text message.
IBM: Best Use of Open Source
ReSketch
Created by: Thomas Wang, James Su, Daniel Chen, Andrew Chen
ReSketch puts the “fun” in “learning” by allowing students to engage with the UN Sustainable Development Goals while chilling with friends! Players sketch based on SDG-related prompts; points are earned if our AI recognizes the sketch. The prompt descriptors provide information regarding the SDGs for students to expand on global sustainability issues.
YorkU: Sustainable Cities & Communities
The Community Creator
Created by: Nuthanan Tharmarajah
Create your own community, or replicate what your community looks like! Then, we will give you a rating and ways you can improve your community!
YorkU: Quality Education
1984
Created by: Darren Lo, Jeffrey Xu
A Google Meet bot for teachers to help monitor and score the engagement of students by tracking their eyes with ML.