Families and educators around the world made the second season of Technovation Families a success. 250 family teams in 13 countries built AI-powered products to solve problems in their communities, from fire-safety tools to devices that help kids with disabilities access the world around them.
Six teams will present their ideas at the global World Summit this year.
Technovation sponsors finalist teams and a mentor to participate in Technovation's World Summit this August. At World Summit they will meet and exchange ideas with other Technovation finalists as well as meet representatives from top tech companies and compete for small education scholarships.
Senior Division: Help2Hear (Kazakhstan), an automated sign language interpreter; Talk & Trust (Palestine), assistive technology for people with speech disorders; and My Ouch (United States), a health and pain-monitoring app.
Junior Division: A10 (Spain), assistive technology for people with visual impairments; Kuwait Birds Tracker (Kuwait), which helps protect local endangered bird species; and the Anti Child-Abduction App (Pakistan), built to help keep kids safe.
Help2Hear (Kazakhstan): A camera records the signs a person articulates. The AI tool recognizes a person's hand movements, wrist, and handshapes as one of its benchmarked gesture images. The detected hand gesture is then translated into text.
Talk & Trust (Palestine): A microphone gathers sound data and the tool is trained to find patterns in how people with speech disabilities may say English and Arabic words and help them communicate with others.
My Ouch (United States): My Ouch has temperature, pulse and moisture sensors that gather data about a person's health. The app is trained to use this data to predict the level of care a person may need and send alerts.
A10 (Spain): The prototype is trained to alert a person if they are about to take an incorrect medication using a recorded message. If a person does not take their medication in their specified window of time, an alert message is sent to their emergency contact.
Kuwait Birds Tracker (Kuwait): KBT invites people to take a picture of a bird with their phone. Then, KBT predicts what kind of bird they are looking at and suggests tips for keeping it safe, using vision-recognition tools.
Anti Child-Abduction App (Pakistan): Inspired by an event in their neighborhood, this family built a prototype that uses a child's phone to collect data about different types of movement, GPS and previous location patterns to connect to an app that alerts parents when their child could be in danger.
Ten teams were recognized as regional winners across five regions in both divisions.
Junior Division: CourseConnect (Nigeria), Smart Driving Assistant (Cambodia), Recyclator (Spain), CalmZilla (United States), and End The Flame (Bolivia).
Senior Division: Tech Rescue (Nigeria), The Trashnovator (Pakistan), an AI tool for Dysorthography (Greece), Smart Waste Sorter (United States), and Protecting Trees (Bolivia).
CourseConnect (Nigeria): CourseConnect helps students choose courses that are aligned with their interests and needs. Through a series of questions, the app takes into account factors such as the user's hobbies and outside pressures.
Smart Driving Assistant (Cambodia): This small scale prototype recognizes unsafe driving conditions and reacts accordingly by reducing car speed, and adjusting trajectory.
Recyclator (Spain): This device uses a camera to analyze materials and flashes one of its 5 colored LED lights, indicating what category the recyclable material falls under.
CalmZilla (United States): Based on user input, the app suggests a number of stress relieving games based on predicted stress level and informs guardians of the student's stress level.
End The Flame (Bolivia): After experiencing the Amazonian fires of 2019, this family created End The Flame, a smart camera that uses image recognition to analyze fires to quickly equip fire fighters with the best knowledge to combat the flames.
Tech Rescue (Nigeria): Inspired by local events, Tech Rescue is a wearable device designed to curb incidences of kidnapping, capable of alerting emergency contacts if the user experiences changes in predicted geolocation.
The Trashnovator (Pakistan): An app designed to reduce irresponsibly disposed-of chemical waste. It targets industrial businesses and provides them with helpful information about how to dispose of their specific kind of chemical waste.
AI tool for Dysorthography (Greece): Detects patterns in misspellings that indicate signs of Dysorthography, a disorder of spelling. The device can analyze both text typed directly into the app and handwritten text via image recognition.
Smart Waste Sorter (United States): A device that attaches to waste bins to help identify if the trash being disposed of is entering the proper bin. It educates the public and aids recycling centers that face large amounts of improperly disposed of materials.
Protecting Trees (Bolivia): This family trained an AI model to help children recognize tree species and their endangered status, educating people and building a database with data gathered from a wide audience.
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