UNTIL THE COMPETITION BEGINS
Would you trade in your office for a four-story sphere surrounded by 40,000 plants? The Spheres are a result of innovative thinking about the character of a workplace and an extended conversation about what is typically missing from urban offices – a direct link to nature.
AWS and NVIDIA are hosting a hackathon where you can build your own solutions around helping the environment. Whether you are passionate about stopping deforestation, tackling climate change, or are also interested in bringing nature into urban environments, we want to see what you can do.
You bring the big ideas and we’ll provide the AI tools and powerful cloud infrastructure for you to build your vision.
AWS’s Seattle Spheres
The spheres range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants as well as meeting space and retail stores. The domes are kept at a temperature of 72 °F (22 °C) and 60 percent humidity during the daytime with sensors that collect data about temperature, humidity, light, CO2, dew point, and other environmental variables. They were created to not only provide a creative workspace for AWS employees but to be an example of how to think big about reintroducing nature into urban environments.
Learn More About the Spheres
Prizes
GRAND PRIZE
- Cash Prize: $ 15,000.00
FIRST RUNNER UP PRIZE
- Cash Prize: $ 5,000.00
SECOND RUNNER UP PRIZE
- Cash Prize: $ 3,000.00
The Challenge
Build, train, optimize, and deploy a machine learning model to a virtual edge device that accurately detects anomalies
Example Topics
Soil and Land Pollution
Loss of Biodiversity
Agricultural Pollution
Climate Change
Deforestation
Sample Training Data
Sample Data – Single Day
Sample Data – 3 Consecutive Days
Sample Data - Day 1
Sample Data - Day 1
Sample Data - Day 1
Each of the 23 sensors is sampled at 15 minute intervals, therefore a day has 96 values per sensor concatenated with its sensor peers in the following order:
sensorList = ( ‘co2_1′,’co2_2’, ‘co2_3’, ‘co2_4’,
‘temp_1’, ‘temp_2’, ‘temp_3’, ‘temp_4’,
‘dew_1′,’dew_2’, ‘dew_3’, ‘dew_4’,
‘instLight_1’, ‘instLight_2’, ‘instLight_3’,
‘relH_1’, ‘relH_2’, ‘relH_3’, ‘relH_4’,
‘externTemp_1’,
‘externSunrise_1’,
‘externHumid_1’,
‘externCondition_1’,
) + day and hour index
Additional details will be provided at the competition.
Technologies
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed machine learning platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker includes the most common machine learning algorithms and is also pre-configured with the latest versions of frameworks such as TensorFlow and Apache MXNet.
Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
With Amazon EC2 P3 instances, powered by the NVIDIA Volta architecture, you can significantly reduce machine learning training times from days to hours.
NVIDIA Platform
NVIDIA GPUs along with the CUDA-X AI libraries are supported on AWS EC2 P & G instances as well as AWS SageMaker for Training & Inference. NVIDIA GPUs are the most widely adopted platform for DL training and the most performant for real-time inference, and accelerate all deep learning frameworks. This complete platform saves data science researchers and developers time and money, letting them bring next-generation AI-powered services to life.
Amazon EC2 G4 Instances
G4 instances are optimized for machine learning application deployments (inference), such as image classification, object detection, recommendation engines, automated speech recognition, and language translation that push the boundary on AI-innovation and latency.
Resources
Tutorials & Sample Code
- Tutorial: Launch an AWS Deep Learning AMI
- Sample Code
AWS Credits
Each attendee will receive $100 AWS credits to build out their solutions. You will be given your code once the competition begins on July 30. Make sure to create an AWS Account before.
Judging Criteria
Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:
Judges
Wenming Ye
Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS
Miro Enev
Sr. Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
An Luo
Sr Technical Program Manager, Academic Programs, AWS
TBA
TBA
Rules
- Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.
- Participants must be 18+ years old by the start of the hackathon and a resident of the United States.
- You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don’t build on top of previous projects if you want to win.
- Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning.
Faq
Who Can Participate?
All developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who are 18+ and residences of the United States.
How are Teams Formed?
Teams can be created in advance using the Environmental Hackathon Slack channel and can be comprised of 1 to 5 individuals.
How is the Environmental Hackathon Judged?
Your project will be submitted and judged through: https://virtual.hackathon.io/
What is the fresh code rule?
All code developed as part of the Environmental Hackathon event must be fresh. Before the start of the hackathon, developers can create wireframes, designs and user flows. They can also come with hardware. But to keep things fair, all code must be written during the official hackathon time period. Other than that, almost anything goes and you can use any coding languages or open-source libraries.
Environmental Hackathon | NYC 2019
