Tag Archives: Competitions
Suicide Prevention Hackathon
Every 40 seconds, someone, somewhere in the world is taking their own life. In Israel alone, 500 people die by suicide every year. In 2003, the International Association for Suicide Prevention, in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO), chose September 10 to be World Suicide Prevention Day, aiming to focus attention on the issue,… Read More
Highschool Student Targeting Lung Cancer
Peleg Zeiff, a 12th-grader from Maccabim-Reut High School took first place in the annual Biotechnology Olympics competition, the finals of which were held at the Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology earlier this month. Peleg explored the potential of using the αvβ3 integrin, a protein uniquely presented on lung cancer cells, as a target for… Read More
Preventing Chemo-Caused Hair Loss
Unprecedented achievements for the Technion - Israel Institite of Technology synthetic biology team at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, held in Paris from October 26 to 28. The students won a gold medal, were ranked first in the Bio-manufacturing and Measurement categories, and ended in the Top 10 overall. The group are engineering… Read More
AI Center Inaugural Datathon
The new Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) – a joint initiative of Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - organized a Datathon - an information-based competition - as its inaugural event. Eight teams and 50 participants worked on four challenges proposed by Rambam physicians. The event… Read More
‘Jacobs Research Day’ Winners Announced
Six students - five women and one man - won top honors in the "Jacobs Research Day", which showcases selected studies of graduate students. This year the research day took place in an online format. The Dean of the Graduate school, Prof. Dan Givoli, said "All the presentations were of the highest standard, and despite… Read More
HealthTech
The MindState ideation competition, which harnesses scientific and technological knowledge for improving healthcare, will take place online on January 11-12. Approximately 70 students from the Technion and Cornell Tech will participate in the ideation sprint, working in mixed groups of students from both institutions with support from medical teams and leading designers. The winners will… Read More
Food Competition Feeds Innovation
Technion Students Cook Up Creative, Tasty, and Award-Winning Food Solutions in European Innovation Competition Students from the Technion’s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering won top prizes in the EU-supported Food Solutions Project, which is part of EIT FOOD – a program that fosters innovation to create healthy and sustainable food for all. The premise… Read More
Keeping the Beat
Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan, entrepreneurs, and venture capital industry representatives attended the final event of the BizTEC Entrepreneurship Program at the Technion. Since its establishment in 2004, graduates of the program have raised a total of more than $1 billion The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the… Read More
11 Years of Autonomous Driving
The Technion held the final round of the 11th Nadav Shoham Robotraffic competition. Hundreds of high school students from 10 different countries took part this year in a virtual format, and the final stage concluded five consecutive days of competition. This year, the participating schools received instructions in advance, and each of them showcased their… Read More
Time to Care
The COVID-19 pandemic may have created many obstacles, but it also provided opportunities for finding creative ways to overcome them. On January 14th, joint teams of students from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell Tech took part in the final event of a semester-long ideation course, where they presented technological solutions for… Read More