A team of Â鶹¹û¶³ students known as the Â鶹¹û¶³ Ethical Hackers won the . Â鶹¹û¶³ earned first place in the college division and took the overall grand prize, winning $3,500!
Over competition weekend, teams of both professionals and college students competed to design innovative, geospatially-aware social media analysis solutions. These solutions were to be capable of detecting and displaying trends as they unfold and indicate future events.
Â鶹¹û¶³’s team was comprised of students Michael Hernandez, Hunter Williamson, Sophia Cykert, and Kortnea Little, working under the leadership of Professor Gabriel Attoun.
“Our students are doing a great job analyzing and addressing these real-world problems using geospatial, machine learning, and analytical skills,” said Tammy Gocial, Ph.D., Interim Dean, John E. Simon School of Business and Associate Academic Vice President.
This represents a second win for Â鶹¹û¶³ in the past seven months, as a group of Â鶹¹û¶³ Cyber Security and Data Science students won a similar competition in March.
Sponsors of the competition included Bayer, Geospatial Innovation Center at T-Rex, AWS, CrunchyData, SafeGraph, the Geospatial Institute at Saint Louis U, USGIF, and 1904labs.
Well done, Saints!