The VR Deminer's Lab hackathon brought together student teams who developed concepts, scenarios, and visual prototypes of VR/AR simulators for training sappers — solutions capable of improving the training process in accordance with professional standard 5169 “Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operator (Deminer)”.
The concepts proposed by KPI students can be integrated into future modules of professional training for deminers: from basic instruction to simulation-based qualification assessment.
Based on the results of the pitching, the jury selected the best developments and three winning teams.
🏆 Safe Tomorrow
• Educational and Scientific Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management (ESIEM)
• Team leader: student Yuriy Zuevsky
• 84,000 UAH
🥈Virtual Demining
• Educational and Scientific Institute of Mechanical Engineering (ESIME)
• Team leader: student Vladislav Shein
• 84,000 UAH
🥉 Scan&Safe
• Educational and Scientific Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management ( Institute of IEE)
• Team leader: graduate student Andriy Gorobets
• 42,000 UAH
Congratulations to our winners!
The hackathon was organized by the Humanitarian Demining Center (CHR) in partnership with:
• The Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine;
• National Platform Demine Ukraine;
• Umag / Universam Osvity group of companies;
• Igor Sikorsky KPI.
For more details about the hackathon and some of the KPI students' projects, watch the video.