Pukyong National University Digital Smart Busan Academy Organizes 1st Baekgyeong Hackathon

3 Nights 4 Days Aboard Training Ship Baekgyeongho

Project Advancement Competition

The Digital Smart Busan Academy Project Group at Pukyong National University (Director: Professor Noh Maengseok) held the '1st Baekgyeong Hackathon' competition for four days from October 11 to 14.

Participants of the 1st Baekgyeong Hackathon are taking a commemorative photo.

This event, held onboard the advanced training ship Baekgyeong-ho of Pukyong National University (Captain: Professor Ryu Kyungjin), was a software (SW) competition with a total prize of 4.5 million KRW. The aim was to develop creative ideas in fields such as finance and maritime fisheries into feasible solutions.

In this competition, six teams of university students (a total of 20 participants) who passed the project proposal screening collaborated on SW projects onboard Baekgyeong-ho, competing while sailing around Suyeong Bay and the southern coast.

As a result, the team of Kang Dawon, Park Jayoon, Lee Siwon, and Jin Kyungwon from the Big Data Convergence major at Pukyong National University won the grand prize (President’s Award) of 2 million KRW for their project on 'Analysis of Roadkill Risk Zones and Notification Service'.

Following this, the team of Park Yerin and Lee Sowon from Dong-A University’s Business Administration Department, and Kim Namgi from Dong-Eui University’s Industrial Management Big Data Engineering Department, won the excellence award (Dean of College of Engineering Award) of 1 million KRW for their project on 'Detection of Abnormal Driver Behavior in the Transportation Industry Using Image Learning'.

Noh Maengseok, the project director, said, “I would like to thank the staff of Baekgyeong-ho for supporting the students to freely collaborate and experience this special project onboard. We will strive to enable more students to participate in the Baekgyeong Hackathon in the future.”

The 1st Baekgyeong Hackathon Competition.

The Digital Smart Busan Academy is a university-corporate collaborative SW academy project supervised by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation, nurturing ICT professionals tailored to the needs of industries in the Busan region.