28: Conversation with the Water Resources Hackathon 1st Place Team "SmartFLOW"

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with the winning team of a climate solutions hackathon focused on water resources.

The Wilkes Center recently hosted its 3rd annual climate solutions hackathon at the end of January. This year the focus was water resources. The “hackathon” as we’ve come to call it – borrowing the term from the computer coding world – is an intense problem-solving competition where we challenge U of U undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline to team-up and develop proposals in a slide deck within 24 hours. We asked students to propose an innovative, data-driven solution ...

People in this episode

Host: The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy

Guest: SmartFLOW

Topics covered

• water resources
• climate solutions
• hackathon
• problem-solving
• innovation

Keywords

• hackathon
• water resources
• climate solutions
• innovation
• data-driven solution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U of U

Products: SmartFLOW

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