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The Costa Rica RPA & AI Hackathon challenges you to use UiPath technologies and tools to build a solution to solve any Enterprise, Public Administration, Personal or Non-Profit Organization use case. It can be an out-of-the-box automation designed to benefit every employee at your organization or a unique personal assistant/automation.

You can also use UiPath partner technologies to supplement your automation ideas. For example: Chatbots, APIs etc. 

👉 • Category 1: Showcase Costa Rica

Showcase Costa Rica! Highlight what Costa Rica is known for, or something specific to Costa Rica that you’re proud of. What topics are unique to Costa Rica that would benefit from automation? Are there cultural, agricultural, weather, and historical ideas you can think of where automation could be useful to showcase Costa Rica and the value it has?

👉• Category 2: Nation-wide/community problem solving

Nation-wide/community problem solving. Solve a current issue that impacts a wider group of people. Topic examples: improving mental health, the circular economy, climate change, virtual learning, employment, learning a second language. What community challenges might benefit from using automation? Are there local projects that can be automated?

👉• Category 3: Student life in Costa Rica

Student life in Costa Rica. Showcase an automation that could help fellow students! This could be anything from helping to alleviate administrative tasks, staying on top of school work, finding an internship position or first job, supporting positive emotional/mental health, or something else you think will be impactful to you and your peers. What challenges do students face in Costa Rica? Can you develop an automation that'd benefit students in Costa Rica in their everyday lives?

👉• Bonus Category: Showcase AI Technology

AI is a rapidly expanding field and we’d love you to learn and enhance your knowledge of AI technologies and their capabilities. The UiPath Platform includes technology that leverages AI, or enables usage of external AI technology, in particular: Document Understanding, Clipboard AI, Action Center, Integration Service. 

Example Problem Statements & Solution Ideas you can use for your submission, or leverage to spark your own ideas!

Category 1: Showcase Costa Rica

1) Problem Statement: Tourists would like to plan a trip to Costa Rica and would love help making the planning process shorter

Solution Ideas: (1) Build an automation that recommends the best time of year to visit Costa Rica and locations to stay at/visit based on user preferences taken as input into the automation (e.g., beach, all-inclusive hotel, adventure lover), (2) Build an automation that recommends where to stay for a 5, 7 or 10 day trip given user preferences, and prepares a budget, (3) Build an automation that shows the prices for peak, mid and low seasons for various places in Costa Rica

2) Problem Statement: A new farmer wants to get into the coffee and pineapple growing business! When and where to start?

Solution Idea: Build an automation that searches the best climate to start the plantation season, and best locations, retrieving historical data from Costa Rican sources, and making a decision based on this historical data.

Category 2: Nation-wide/Community Problem Solving

1) Problem Statement: It is challenging for working women to care for children and elderly family members while continuing to work and juggle a myriad of appointments and schedules.

Solution Idea: Build an automation that combines schedules into an easily consumable format showing required time off to share with employers. 

2) Problem Statement: Home electricity usage varies by time of day and can result in significant savings for homeowners if they know when is the best time to do things like laundry and cooking. 

Solution Idea: Build an automation that shows the difference in cost/savings if homeowners use electricity at different times of the day. (Varies by electricity provider)

Category 3: Student life in Costa Rica

1) Problem Statement: Help students figure out which friends will be in their classes for the upcoming semester and when they will have shared free time

Solution Idea: Extract attendee lists from virtual class invites (e.g., google meets) and build a combined schedule given a pre-specified list of participants

2) Problem Statement: Help budget-conscious students find the best places to shop

Solution Idea: Given a list of 3 products, scrape and monitor price data in different marketplaces/supermarkets and inform the user where to find the price

Bonus Category : Use AI in your submission

We have a special bonus category for entries that use AI in your submission. Let us know if you in fact did use AI and how when you submit your project plan.

Consult product category options and resources:

UiPath Business Automation Platform

Marketplace Components

In case you don't have access to the UiPath Business Automation Platform selected tools, please ask for a Product Enterprise Trial or download UiPath Automation Cloud for Community.

😎 Who can participate?

Individuals or teams can participate. Teams can be made up of a maximum of 4 people.

Examples of people who should participate,

• Any student or IT professional from Costa Rica can participate in this hackathon

Check rules and regulations below.

Register before Aug 11 , 2023. (If you are participating as a team, individual registration is mandatory for each participant.

📄 Rules and Regulations:

The idea you're submitting must not be available as a solution or reusable component on the UiPath Marketplace. (However, you may extend an existing solution, for example, a connector for Salesforce, but with enhanced functionalities already available in the Marketplace.)

You can join as an individual or in teams of a maximum of 4 people. When submitting, only one of you will submit the final project to be assessed.

Everyone on the team needs to register separately to the hackathon.

You can submit more than one solution as a participant or team in the same/different categories.

See the full T&C

🏆🥇 Costa Rica RPA & AI Hackathon 2023:

• 1st Prize – $100 USD UiPath voucher
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists

Category 2 Prizes: Nation-wide/community problem solving

• 1st Prize – $100 USD UiPath voucher
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists