{"id":189745,"date":"2026-02-23T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/umich-hosts-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:00:09","slug":"umich-hosts-first-ever-ai-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/umich-hosts-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"UMich hosts first-ever AI Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/campus-life\/ross-school-of-business-and-college-of-engineering-collaborate-for-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/\">UMich hosts first-ever AI Hackathon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/campus-life\/ross-school-of-business-and-college-of-engineering-collaborate-for-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/\">https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/campus-life\/ross-school-of-business-and-college-of-engineering-collaborate-for-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-23 00:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.michigandaily.com\">www.michigandaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 250 students participated in the first-ever 24-hour AI Hackathon from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>The event was a collaboration between the University of Michigan&#8217;s Ross School of Business, the College of Engineering, and technology company Oracle.<\/li>\n<li>Participants created solutions using artificial intelligence to enhance college experience and well-being in education.<\/li>\n<li>Teams consisted of both Business and Engineering students and competed in designing a working demo of an AI agent, along with marketing and budgeting presentations.<\/li>\n<li>The Hackathon was the idea of Holly Taylor and Phil Brabbs, aiming to foster collaboration among different academic disciplines.<\/li>\n<li>The event concluded with the top five finalists presenting their projects, with Team 8 winning the first prize of $3,000 and Team 44 winning the second prize of $1,000.<\/li>\n<li>Team 8\u2019s solution, DopaMine, aims to help students manage their tasks by detecting doomscrolling and sending notifications or blocking distracting apps.<\/li>\n<li>Participants appreciated the experience, emphasizing the value of collaborative learning across different fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMich hosts first-ever AI Hackathon https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/campus-life\/ross-school-of-business-and-college-of-engineering-collaborate-for-first-ever-ai-hackathon\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-23 00:53:00 Source Domain: www.michigandaily.com Over 250&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/edited_map.NEW_.Hackathon.02.20.2026.0013.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-189745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189747,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189745\/revisions\/189747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}