Dental Hackathon

Technology Driven Oral Health Promotion

Problem

Dental program emphasizes success as doing well on tests and practicals.

Missing link between learning in classroom and innovation, creation and application in the real world.

The Idea

Dental Hackathon: Invention competition that challenges students to create transformative technologies that improve access to oral care, for everyone.

Education

Prevention

Invention

Event Model

• Collaboration between NYUCD and Tandon School or Engineering
• Incentivize Dental Students to try something new and different
• Create a positive and nurturing space for creation and innovation

Education Workshop

21 Hackers

• 15 DDS

• 2 Engineering

• 2 Dental Hygiene

1 Expert

• Dr. McDevitt 

4 Projects

• Imagenostics

• CleverBrush

• Flossy

• FirstScan 

ImageNostics

1. Allow patients to diagnose and detect lesions using their smartphones
2. Scalable globally through Android and Apple app stores
3. Improve disease knowledge base through machine learning using large quantities of data

ImageNostics

Collaboration

Partnering with HACKNYU to bring Dental Hackathon as an impactful platform

Event Date: Feb. 19th - Feb 21st @ Tandon SoE

Dental Hackathon

400+ Students      36 Hours      5 Tracks

Organizing Team

Saj Arora - D3

Andrew Kary - D2

Nicole Haydt - D1

Jackie Schmidt - Hygiene

Steph Colaiacovo - D3

Bre Patel - D3

Fadhel Gazala - D3

Billy Kwon - D3

Our Challenges

• Incentivize Dental Students through meaningful prizes in order to create a transformative experience
• Create a hub to connect Hackathon projects with industry leaders and differentiate NYUCD as a global brand of impactful technologies
• Recruit departmental support within the NYU network to link experts with project incubation to promote collaboration and multi-disciplinary problem solving

Dental Hackathon

http://dentalhackathon.org

Thank you.