2020 Results

Phase Three Winners

After creating videos demonstrating their minimum viable products (MVPs) and submitting supporting documentation, four teams were chosen to receive funding from the remaining $25,000 prize pool. The phase three winners are:

  • $10,000: Nyansapo, for increasing literacy rates in African countries
  • $5,000: AIGuide, for using AI to help the visually impaired navigate indoors and find objects
  • $5,000: Cyclone, for using smart technology to reduce large-scale energy waste in buildings
  • $5,000: OpenVessel, for building 3-D vascular network models to detect tumors and advance artificial tissue growth

Phase Two Winners

Top teams have been awarded $1,500 and will move on to the minimum viable product (MVP) phase, where each team will present their MPVs to a panel of judges throughout September. Phase two winners include teams representing each area of AI for Good:

Health icon Health

  • AIGuide: using AI to help the visually impaired navigate indoors and find objects
  • COACT: Cowriting Optimized and Ascended Clinical Trials
  • DACTR: recommending individualized treatment plans for patients suffering from major depressive disorder
  • MedArmor: creating genetic and AI–based diagnoses and medical cost estimation
  • OpenVessel: building 3-D vascular network models to detect tumors and advance artificial tissue growth

Education icon Education

  • Nyansapo: increasing literacy rates in African countries

Sustainability icon Sustainability and Climate Change

  • Cyclone: using smart technology to reduce large-scale energy waste in buildings
  • Energy intelligence: reducing energy use by regulating heating, cooling, and lighting systems

Humanitarianism icon Humanitarianism

  • Aidly: using AI to assist nonprofits in volunteer outreach

Phase One Winners

Twenty teams have been awarded $500 and will move forward to compete in the Prototype Phase during Penn State Startup Week.

  • ADHD Proposal
  • Aidly
  • AI–powered lecture engagement enhancer
  • Applications of computer vision toward search and rescue
  • ARFind: A real-time augmented reality smart navigation system for visually impaired individuals
  • Assisting radiologists in diagnoses with convolutional neural networks
  • Bloom: Connecting smallholder farmers in developing countries
  • Clinical trial design success prediction model and design suggestion tool
  • Comments for consideration
  • DACTR: Depression Advisory Correctional Therapy Rehabilitation
  • Energy Solutions
  • Fast Insights: video-to-text summarizer
  • Forest Fire Prevention AI
  • Insight: predicting demand from historical data using deep learning time series model
  • Insurance Compatibility Assistant
  • MedArmor: Genetic and AI-based diagnosis and medical cost estimation
  • NittanyLink
  • Nyansapo
  • Tech Cycle
  • Vessel