Twenty-six students in eight teams from the University of Bahrain (UoB) went deep into innovation, fun, and development. Bahrain has a national focus on developing digital skills for its citizens. This event was part of the first artificial intelligence (AI) two-week hackathon, culminating at the AWS Summit in Bahrain hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The teams had 15 days of technical training, design thinking, ideation, culture of innovation training, prototyping, and visual presentations. Each of the eight teams chose a unique problem to solve with AI tools on AWS. The eight prototypes focused on solving how to:
