We’ve invited the cream of the crop to this hackathon and that includes you!
Graduate and undergraduate students, any major, any year, any school- everyone is welcome!
Thoughtfully selected students from the top 5 agriculture schools in the world are also attending! Yes, you heard correct! This is truly an international event with the potential for global impact. Student and faculty guests are coming from Wageningen University (Netherlands), University of São Paulo (Brazil), China Agricultural University, and the University of California, Davis.
With the resources and mentors we gathered, it's your opportunity to explore what technology can do for agriculture. It’s time to take your ideas from concept to reality.
Join us for conversations with senior leaders, participants from around the world, networking, and ~36 hours to level up your digital ag experience.
200 students + mentors + $8,000 in cash prizes = 1 life changing weekend.
We’ve invited the cream of the crop to this hackathon and that includes you!
Graduate and undergraduate students, any major, any year, any school- everyone is welcome!
Thoughtfully selected students from the top 5 agriculture schools in the world are also attending! Yes, you heard correct! This is truly an international event with the potential for global impact. Student and faculty guests are coming from Wageningen University (Netherlands), University of São Paulo (Brazil), China Agricultural University, and the University of California, Davis.
With the resources and mentors we gathered, it's your opportunity to explore what technology can do for agriculture. It’s time to take your ideas from concept to reality.
Join us for conversations with senior leaders, participants from around the world, networking, and ~36 hours to level up your digital ag experience.
200 students + mentors + $8,000 in cash prizes = 1 life changing weekend.
There are few products or services with as much universal demand as food & agriculture, or where the side effects are so profound. Too often, there’s insufficient access to food, harmful health impacts, inefficient supply chains, and a reliance on petrochemicals–these are problems and these are opportunities as well.
In 2019 humans spent more than seven trillion dollars on food. That food does more than simply keep us alive, it makes us feel alive, changes our culture and impacts the planet. Did you know 33% of all agriculture land world-wide is used to produce food to feed livestock?
The good news is that there’s more leverage than ever before. More power to more people. More chances to make a difference and to make a living doing it. This is your chance to understand the ecosystem and to actually do something about it!
Over the next few decades, a rising global population, increasing wealth, changing consumer demand and climate variation will put growing pressure on food systems. While global demand might be met through current agricultural practices in the short term, these strategies are unsustainable for the long term. Globally, agriculture demands a radical transformation.
The world’s future food systems must become more sustainable, productive, resilient and efficient. We must re-envision the way food is produced, processed and distributed, the way natural resources are used, recycled and replenished, and the way social and agricultural systems interact to support healthy individuals, communities and environment. To transform existing food systems, we must integrate knowledge from biology, ecology, engineering, business, computer and information science and the social sciences to create communication networks that enable timely response and informed decision-making at the level of the farm, community, nation and world.
Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) connects world-renowned researchers across academic boundaries with multidisciplinary practitioners to address global food system challenges. CIDA develops and applies digital innovations in agriculture designed to improve the sustainability, profitability, resiliency and efficiency of the world’s food systems.
Team: MicroSoil: Rapid soil-borne pathogen testing kit
Members:
Brian Barbieri, Wageningen - MSc Biosystems Engr 'Kia Canning, UC Davis - BS Bio & Ag Engr ' 20
Kyle Cheung, UC Davis - MS Biosystems Engr ' 20
Courtney Gibson, CALS - BS Plant Science ' 22
Saeed Hosseinzadeh, CALS - PhD Plant Pathology ' 22
Anneliek ter Horst, UC Davis - PhD Plant Pathology ' 23
Team: Hummingbird: Providing precise, affordable, and actionable forecasting of plant diseases using a network of static sensors and mobile robots
Members:
Harshitha Puttalakshmamma, Engineering - MEng Engineering Management ' 20
Samjhana Khanal, Wageningen - MSc Plant Breeding & Genetics
Jeonghoon Lee, Georgia Tech - BS CompEngr ' 20
Valentin Porcellini, CiS - MEng Info Science ' 20
Brian Wang, Engineering - PhD MechE ' 21
Yiping Xie, Wageningen - MEng Biosystems Engr ' 21
Team: Brithaca: Predictive models for farmers to preemptively identify crop disease outbreaks
Members:
Ben Catania, CALS - BS AEM and Info Sci ' 23
Timothy Reeves, CALS - BS Ag Sci & Info Sci ' 21
Rong Tan, CiS - MEng CS ' 20
Natasha Valadares dos Santos, Universidade de Sao Paulo - MS Agronomy ' 21
Juliet Zhong, Engineering - MEng CS + ORIE ' 20
Team: Green Share: Facilitating urban farming by optimizing green-zoning.
Members:
Joao Otavio Araujo, Wageningen - MSc Biosystems Engr ' 21
Gustavo Crestana, Universidade de Sao Paulo - MS Genetics & Plant Breeding ' 20
Jonah Helmer, CALS - BS Plant Science ' 22
Tina Lai, NYU - MS Bioinformatics ' 20
Krishna Raju, Engineering - MEng CS ' 20
Zixiao Wang, Engineering - MEng Elec & Comp Engr ' 20
Team: Animal Bytes: Use acoustic data to infer animal health indicators and emotional states.
Members:
James Patten, CALS - BS IARD ' 20
Tavonga Tafuma, CALS - BS Info Science ' 23
Rodrigo Taipe, ENGR - BS CS ' 22
Sirui Wang, ENGR - MEng Elec & Comp Engr ' 20
Boteng Yao, ENGR - MEng Elec & Comp Engr ' 21
Jel Zhao, CALS - BS Animal Science ' 19
Team: Grass: Pasture micromanagement system enabling enhanced grazing practices
Members:
Kritika Bhargava, SC Johnson - MBA ' 20
Dmitry Gurinsky, SC Johnson - MBA ' 20
Colin Kadis, CALS - BS ANSC ' 21
Jonathan Moon, A&S - BA CS ' 21
Clara Song, Engineering - BS CS ' 21
Michael Zhang, SC Johnson - MBA ' 20
Team: CornML: A cost-effective kernel sorting machine powered by an aflatoxin classification algorithm
Members:
Dan Brody, Cooper Union- BSE Engineering ' 22
Colin Ford, ENGR - MEng Materials Sci Engr ' 20
Larissa Pereira, CiS - MEng CS ' 20
Kaveesha Shah, CiS - MEng CS ' 20
Malika Sharma, CALS - MEng Plant Biology ' 20
Chloe Siegel, CALS - PhD Plant Pathology ' 23
Team: Supply Chainsmokers: Reduce Food Wastage across Supply Chain by leveraging data with improved traceability.
Members:
Akhil Azhikodan, CiS - MEng CS ' 20
Anushka Baoni, CiS - MEng CS ' 20
Luana Johnston, CALS - PhD Microbiology ' 24
Tridaya Karuturi, ENGR - MEng Engr Mgmt ' 20
Theodoros Sofianos, Wageningen - MSc Dev & Rural Innovation
Team: VYO, an intelligent agricultural platform for small farmers around the world to learn, share and connect.
Members:
Chloe Chidera Ene, ENGR - MEng Engr Mgmt '20
Andrew Gmirkin, CALS - BS Ag Sci & Comm ' 23
Giulia Hem, Wageningen- MSc Biosystems Engr ' 21
Annum Ijaz, ENGR - MEng Engineering Mgmt ' 20
Franklin Otieno, CALS - BS CS ' 21
Lu Yang CiS - MS Info Science ' 20
Team: Drone Appraisals: A soft-ware appraisal service platform for farmers that utilizes drone technology to create aerial imagery to asses farmland value, resource capabilities, and production opportunity. Allows for the combination of physical and financial appraised valuations.
Members:
Sarrah Ali, CALS - BS Info Science ' 20
Brandt Geist, CALS - BS Plant & Ag Science ' 23
Destiny Meador, CALS - BS Plant Science & Bio ' 22
Yi Zhu, CiS - MS Applied Statistics ' 20
Team: Noobs
Our product aims to bridge the gap between farmers and consumers, reducing economic costs for both parties. By doing so, we aim to gradually reduce food waste with reduced travel times and increased product shelf life.
Members:
Ray Gong, ENGR - MEng Engineering Mgmt ' 20
Kuan-Ying Hsieh,ENGR - MEng Engr Mgmt ' 20
Chelci Lee, A&S - BS CS ' 22
Ada Luo, CALS - BS Enviro Engineering ' 23
Gordon Tran, CALS - BS EnS ' 23
Alex Yu, ENGR - MEng Materials Sci Engr ' 20
Team: We Farm, provides a decentralized food supply chain platform from farmers’ local storage to consumers’ table (P-to-P) in developing countries so that farmers can decrease storage wastage by 7% and distribution wastage by 27%.
Members:
Yucheng Jiang, CiS - MEng Info Science ' 20
Shawn Li, CiS - MEng Info Science ' 20
Qixuan Li, CiS - MS Info Science ' 20
Yuguang Li, CiS - MEng Info Sci ' 21
Bill Tang, Engineering - MEng CS ' 20
Yubo Zhang, Engineering - MEng Info Science ' 20
Team: FreshBot: Automated vehicles for farm-to-fork delivery
Members:
Madhura Bokil, CALS - MS Food Sci & Tech ' 20
Jackson Jiang, SC Johnson - MBA ' 20
Rossie Luo, CALS - MS Food science ' 20
Tianyu Ma, ENGR - PhD Elec & Comp Engr ' 22
Yujia Zhang, ENGR - PhD Applied Math ' 24
Yuchang Zhou, A&S - BA CS ' 20
Team: Food Waze: Tackling post harvest food lost during transportation from farm to market due to inadequate climate control.
Members:
Nikolaos Alfieris, Wageningen - MSc Biosystems Engr ' 21
Lucas Avancini, Universidade de Sao Paulo - BS ' 21
Leticia Carvalho de Sousa, Universidade de Sao Paulo - BS Agronomy ' 20
Nathanael Cheng,ILR - BS ' 20
Michelle Dong, ENGR - MEng Systems Engr ' 20
Team: Agcess
Access to AgTech Solutions for all farmers
Members:
Isabelle Amlicke, CALS - BS Plant Science ' 21
Ashley Bacalso, ILR - MILR ' 20
Sergio Luis Castro Junior, Universidade de Sao Paulo - PhD Biosystems Engr ' 23
Shiang-Wan Chin, ENGR - PhD Systems Engr ' 22
Irena Gao, CALS - BS Info Science ' 21
Robert van de Ven, Wageningen - MSc Biosystems Engr
Team: Wintergreens: Geothermal hydroponic greenhouses for residential customers in cold weather regions.
Members:
Austin Blais, SC Johnson - MBA ' 20
Keith Devas, SC Johnson - MBA MBA ' 20
Karl Frohlich, CALS - BS Biological Engr ' 20
Andreas Olvera, CALS - BS Plant Science ' 21
Yohan Sequeira, CALS - MEng Biological Engr ' 20
Team: Cool Beans: WebMD for farmers
Members:
Jacob Ashcraft, SC Johnson - MPS Accounting ' 20
Karl Ashkar, ENGR - MEng Materials Sci Engr ' 20
Souleiman Benhida, Engineering - BS CS ' 20
Rebecca Helling, A&S - BA CS ' 21
Abdullah Islam, Engineering - MEng CS ' 20
Siddharth Khuteta, Engineering - MEng Materials Sci Engr ' 20
Team: Coop Chain: A solution service to improve the Agriculture Co-op journey by increasing transparency, accountability, and quality of products between management and dairy farmers.
Members:
Xianyi Han, Engineering - MEng CS ' 20
Mingzhao Liu, A&S - BA CS ' 21
Sriya Sunil, CALS - PhD Food Science ' 23
Yuting Yang, A&S|| - BA math ; cs ' 20
Jeffrey Zhang, Engineering - BS CS ' 20