AGE-WELL Hackathon

The DATE Lab Takes Home a Prize at InterNAtional Competition

Maria Acenas, Research Analyst

The AgeTech@Home Hackathon was a competition that took place during the month of November hosted by AGE-WELL & VHA Home Healthcare. This competition engaged older adults, caregivers, trainees and researchers in various challenges involving market research and innovate thinking to come up with a new business model and solution to address a variety of identified needs in the aging community.

Eight groups of six individuals competed in these challenges and later presented their creative solutions to a panel of expert judges from various disciplines.

Congratulations to Maria Acenas and her team for receiving the first-runner up position in the competition!

An honourable mention to former HMB student Sukriti Sachdev and her team for winning the grand prize.

Watch the video below to learn more about each team and their projects!