The event, titled HackRice 7, was sponsored by the university’s computer science club. The organizers invited teams of university students to develop software and hardware that could solve challenges faced by physicians at Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital.
Teams created a variety of solutions, such as an application for Amazon Alexa to help diagnose illnesses, a bike helmet that detects oncoming cars, and an insulin and food data tracker.
“There’s a lot of creative energy here and we wanted a way to direct that because this can be a force for social good,” Avery Jordan, director of the hackathon and a computer science junior at Rice University, told Houston Chronicle.
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