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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Event Name: NCSU-USDA Hackathon</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Date: October 9-10, 2021</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Two locations:</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NC State University<br>
Mary Anne Fox Laboratory-<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">2791 Pillsbury Cir North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Short Description: Please come join us for a joint NCSU and USDA ARS Ag tech Hackathon to accelerate agricultural sustainability using computer vision, machine learning, and robotics.
The event will center around uses of the new BenchBot, a low cost robot intended as a generalizable platform for sensing growing plants on greenhouse benches. The robot also serves as a testbed for new sensors intended for field applications. Three of these
robots will be housed in the new Plant Sciences Building, a new $160 million project at NCSU that will foster interdisciplinary research on agriculture’s largest challenges. Teams may build off of the innovative solutions developed for the recent
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/precision-sustainable-ag/OpenCV_Competition2021__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!WmE1JCMt_-D4iYtsSiVSwmeK42QPdmgjveZw3Kqi1AEDpadg4t5atQYqSrMac2oK$" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">OpenCV
competition</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Multiple cash prizes will be available for teams in multiple categories. You must be a student enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level to participate. For those participating
in person, refreshments and lunch will be provided both days.</span></i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sign up
</span></i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/ncsu-usda-hack-a-thon-registration-161912186709__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!WmE1JCMt_-D4iYtsSiVSwmeK42QPdmgjveZw3Kqi1AEDpadg4t5atQYqStVBgJzi$" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here:</span></i></a></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
email </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:erhirsch@ncsu.edu?Subject=hackathon!" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Emma Hirschy</span></a></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sierra N. Young, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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North Carolina State University<br>
151 Weaver Laboratories, Campus Box 7625</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Raleigh, NC 27695-7625 </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(919) 515-6740 | </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:syoung2@ncsu.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:syoung2@ncsu.edu"><span style="color:red">sierrayoung@ncsu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#CC0000"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">|<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/studentservices.ncsu.edu/your-resources/privacy/pronouns-and-gender-identity/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!WmE1JCMt_-D4iYtsSiVSwmeK42QPdmgjveZw3Kqi1AEDpadg4t5atQYqStb8Stns$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://studentservices.ncsu.edu/your-resources/privacy/pronouns-and-gender-identity/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!WmE1JCMt_-D4iYtsSiVSwmeK42QPdmgjveZw3Kqi1AEDpadg4t5atQYqStb8Stns$">she/her</a></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545">Jennifer L. Clarke, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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