Dates and timings

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First mandatory webinar: 7th April 

7th - 13th April: Post your projects online, form teams and get set up

14th - 19th April: Hackathon and results (hackathon is not full time, so you will be able to work on your project in your own time)

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Eligibility

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Whether you work or study in the area of health, medicine, AI or data science or do not fit one of these categories but are willing to be part of a team to combat Covid-19, you are welcome to participate in the hackathon.

The Hackathon will follow the following themes:

• Train AI models for better diagnosis

• Identification of best indicators of disease severity

• Find most common mutations as indicator of pathogen mutability

• Identification of best vaccine-potential regions in proteins

• Disease progression and what people with low/ or significant health impacts have in common

• Modelling viral infection in the human body

• Model country epidemic data

• Model economic impact in countries

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Logistics and prizes

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Using state of the art online tools, the entire hackathon will take place online, from the comfort of your desktop.

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Winning teams will be given a monetary award to help develop their idea in conjunction with Mindstream-AI.