We are back! Following PhysTech 2024, 2025, and 2026, we are excited to welcome you to the 2027 edition: PhysTech 2027. Website: https://binnovative-boston.github.io/phystech/ Discord: https://discord.gg/mt4RVtcA7h Email: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animal.hack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/17528013/ PhysTech is an online, student-led hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes physical activities - including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies, and recreational adventures. All types of physical activities are welcome. Traditional sports and athletic training? Absolutely. Yoga, pilates, ballet? Of course. Swimming, kayaking, cycling, dancing, skateboarding, rock/mountain climbing, hiking, horseback riding? Definitely. Fishing, bowling, paddleboarding, scuba diving, rafting, cheer leading, outdoor bird watching, gardening, kite flying, disk golf (frisbee), or cornhole? Why not! PhysTech is open not only to athletes and recreational participants, but also to fans, coaches, referees/judges, and analysts. PhysTech offers you a platform to identify needs, wants and challenges in physical activities and develop creative, technology-driven solutions (hacks) to address them. PhysTech is supported by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts. EVENT OVERVIEW Format: Fully online Entry fee: Free Participation: Individuals and teams Eligibility: Open to participants of all ages and technical backgrounds. No previous hackathon experience is required. Project period: Participants may work on their projects at any time before the submission deadline. Project submission deadline: 12pm on June 26 (Sat), 2027, EST Presentation registration deadline: 12pm on June 26 (Sat), 2027, EST Online project presentations: June 27 (Sun), 2027, EST Awards: 15+ awards recognize projects across a wide range of categories. Publication opportunity: Selected participants will be invited to publish book chapters about their projects in the Binnovative Innovation Book series. Merchandise: Celebrate your AnimalHack experience with official merch! Purchases help support future PhysTech events. EXPECTED PROJECT TOPICS Expected project topics include, but are not limited to: * Monitoring and enhancing performance * Logging and tracking practice, training and exercise * Recording, analyzing and communicating activity data * Applying data analytics to physical activity * Enhancing fan experience * Increasing participation/engagement in physical activity * Promoting health and wellness though physical activity * Preventing and helping heal from injuries * Improving dietary and nutritional assistance * Protecting and improving the environment for physical activity Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, social platforms, web sites/services, devices, sensors, robots, immersive technology (AR/VR), wearables, data collection/storage, data analysis/forecasts, data visualization, audio/image/video processing, 3-dimensional modeling/printing, machine learning/AI, NFT/crypto, and algorithms. BOOK PUBLICATION We plan to publish a book that features selected projects presented at PhysTech 2027. Award recipients and other selected participants will be invited to extend their project abstracts and publish them as book chapters through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. The form for presentation registration will be shared in the PhysTech 2026 channel in Discord. Project Presentation: We will announce the schedule of project presentations by early morning of June 27 (Sun), EST. In our current plan, we will kick off at 10am on June 27 (Sun), EST.
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