Smart Kharkiv 2021
CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

The Hackathon "SMART KHARKIV 2021 & CPS" is an new-format event, which lasts 48 hours on the Computer Science Department of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University base for the teams from different universities with involvement of specialists and judges from IT-companies.

The Hackathon`s main purpose is creating of available and socially important innovative devices, applications and services for improving economical and informational efficiency, health and safety.

SMART KHARKIV 2021 & CPS is created for students of each course of every Kharkiv university. If you can code, want to improve your skills and create something new and important in cyberphysical systems field, entirely diving in project realization, this event is just for you!

The maximum number of members is 5, but you can work on your own if you`re sure about yourself. If all team members are registered, then its staff remains as you wish. We recommend a team has a programmer, a designer, a soft skills managers.

Taking part in the Hackathon means creating the product from nothing. You can bring necessary materials for project realization, but it shouldn`t be a ready project. If you want to work at the existing project with a new team, you need to announce it during your presentation and tell how you want to improve the project during the Hackathon.

• A laptop with installed software for programming
• Suite of components for project realization
• All you need for the rest and breaks (e.g. plaid, toothbrush and so on)

If you don`t have components or hardware, let organizers know beforehand hackathon@karazin.ua.

Hackathon is a long marathon. You can sleep just at the boiling point. Is such a case, you`d better to take with you a sleeping bag. Also you can go home to sleep there.

You can show your presentation in Google Presentations (presentation time is not longer then 5 minutes). Your presentation must include the essence of the project, the prototype, for whom is it developed and what it does, and also the description of technologies / methods which you`ve been using for project writing. For presenting the project in English you can gain extra points or bonus.

Winners will be decided by judges in 5 nominations. The evaluation criteria:

• Innovativeness
• Project relevance for Kharkiv
• Quality of the presentation
• Quality of the prototype
• Creativity and originality
• Potential social effect from using an idea (project)
• Possibility of idea (project) commercialization
• Team work

There will be mentors - qualified specialists in their branches, who can guide you and answer all your questions in the Hackathon.