[Research] Mi Jin An, a combined master and doctorate student from Professor Sang Won Lee’s research lab, gets awarded in F8 Hackathon hosted by Facebook
- College of Software and Engineering
- Hit783
- 2019-06-10
Mi Jin An, a combined master and doctorate student from Professor Sang Won Lee’s research lab, gets awarded in F8 Hackathon hosted by Facebook
Mi Jin An, a combined master and doctorate student from Professor Sang Won Lee’s research lab, participated in F8 Hackathon, which was hosted by Facebook.
The hackathon involved four categories out of SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) from United Nations. Mi Jin’s team, Code Canary, developed a chat-bot to allow potential learners, living in underprivileged conditions such as lack of laptops and weak data environment, to learn programming through simple coding and display of result in the chatroom.
The aim of the prototype was to lower the barrier to entry of programming learning regardless of educational environment and places.
As a result, the team made it through the final with seven other teams. Five teams were awarded and Code Canary received the best award in SDG 4 (Education) section.