PAST COMPETITIONS

ShellHacks
1,400 students participated in ShellHacks 2024, hosted by Florida International University on September 25-27.

PennApps XXV
The 25th anniversary of the nation’s oldest hackathon, PennApps XXV, recently took place at The University of Pennsylvania.


Big Ideas: A Data-Driven Innovation Competition
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge partnered with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to provide a Patient Safety Technology Challenge award at its Big Ideas competition.

Bench to Bedside (B2B)
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge partnered with Bench to Bedside, hosted by the University of Utah’s Center for Medical Innovation, for the second year in a row.

Purdue University Design & Innovation Competition
Purdue University’s Design and Innovation Competition finale was held April 26 with three teams of finalists receiving awards for their innovations.


Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2ai)
Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI), hosted by Georgetown University, was a 36-hour hackathon held April 12-14, 2024.


Cornell Health Hackathon
The 2024 Cornell Health Hackathon was an in-person interdisciplinary event held March 8-10 in New York City.


Hacking Health
Hacking Health, held February 3-4, 2024 at Columbia University, focused on the theme of patient safety.

IrvineHacks
IrvineHacks, held January 26-28 at UC Irvine, is the largest collegiate hackathon in Orange County, California.

IDEA Hacks
IDEA Hacks, held January 12-14, 2024 in Southern California, is the premier hardware-focused hackathon on the West Coast.

CTA Foundation Pitch Competition
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation hosted its annual CTA Foundation Pitch Competition at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 10, 2024, which included a patient safety award.

SONSEIL NursesKnow Patient Safety Tech Challenge
The NursesKnow Patient Safety Technology Challenge, hosted by SONSEIL, was held December 14.

Hack the Nest
Hack the Nest, the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area's largest high school hackathon, was held on December 9-10 in Sterling, Virginia.

OSF Healthcare Patient Safety Technology Trailblazer
The Patient Safety Technology Trailblazer competition, hosted by OSF Healthcare, announced “The New Pill Box” as the winning innovation.

Healthcare Innovation Exhibition
A semester-long project at Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation culminated at the Health Innovation Exhibition November 17.

University of Rochester SMD Entrepreneurs’ Innovation Challenge
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Entrepreneur group’s four-week innovation challenge was sponsored by the Patient Safety Technology Challenge.