Indy Civic Tech Hackathon 2025

About the challenge - Chatbots for Public Safety: Empowering Indiana Communities

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Develop chatbots to enhance public safety (e.g., reporting hazards, emergency alerts).

Requirements

What to Build -

Create chatbots serving capcity for 870,000+ Indianapolis residents.

What to Submit

Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be available on public sites like youtube, linkedin, twitter, Guthub etc

Share link of github code.

 

 

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Prizes

$1,000 in prizes
Gold
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

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Judges

Rohit Gupta

Rohit Gupta
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY - GEICO

 Krishna Ganeriwal

Krishna Ganeriwal
Senior Software Engineer / Meta

Akshata Bhat

Akshata Bhat
Amazon

Judging Criteria

  • Judge should have more than 10 years of experience.
  • Technological Implementation
    Does the project demonstrate clean software development? Does the project thoroughly leverage the required tool? How is the quality of the code? Design , Interpretation , lines of Code, Test Cases, Performanc.
  • Potential for Social Impact
    How soon it can launch to society and how many people can impact from the code? How aggresively it can work with state government ecosystem?
  • Architectural Design
    Is the user experience and design of the project is getting delevered? Is there any full stack development in frontend and backend in the software?
  • Quality of the Idea
    How creative and unique is the project? Does the concept exist already? If so, how much does the project improve on it?

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