{"id":1009,"date":"2021-08-02T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:24:31","slug":"ncsu-usda-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/2021\/08\/02\/ncsu-usda-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"NCSU &#8211; USDA Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Date: October 9-10, 2021<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Times: 9am-5pm Eastern both days<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Two locations:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NC State University<br \/>Mary Anne Fox Laboratory-<br \/>2791 Pillsbury Cir North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607<\/li><li>Virtual\/online &#8211; an invitation to our Discord server will be sent to you after signing up<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Short Description:\u00a0<\/strong> Please come join us for a joint NCSU and USDA ARS Ag tech Hackathon to accelerate agricultural sustainability using computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. The event will center around uses of the new BenchBot, a low cost robot intended as a generalizable platform for sensing growing plants on greenhouse benches. The robot also serves as a testbed for new sensors intended for field applications. Three of these robots will be housed in the new Plant Sciences Building, a new $160 million project at NCSU that will foster interdisciplinary research on agriculture\u2019s largest challenges. Teams may build off of the innovative solutions developed for the recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/precision-sustainable-ag\/OpenCV_Competition2021\" target=\"_blank\">OpenCV competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Multiple cash prizes will be available for teams in multiple categories. You must be a student enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level to participate. For those participating in person, refreshments and lunch will be provided both days<\/strong><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sign up <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ncsu-usda-hack-a-thon-registration-161912186709\" target=\"_blank\">here:<\/a> email <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:erhirsch@ncsu.edu?Subject=hackathon!\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Hirschy<\/a> with questions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: October 9-10, 2021 Times: 9am-5pm Eastern both days Two locations: NC State UniversityMary Anne Fox Laboratory-2791 Pillsbury Cir North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2462,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"lseckard","author_link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/author\/lseckard\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/CALS.CCC_.8657-1-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 2, 2021","modified":"Updated on August 2, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 2, 2021 11:24 am","modified":"Updated on August 2, 2021 11:24 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Cover Crop Conference at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at Cherry Research Farm outside Goldsboro, NC.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/undergrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}