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Middlebury College CS students win 2026 UVM Hackathon!
Congratulations to Esdras Ntuyenabo 26’, Ineza Mizero Ines Kevine 27’, Dante Aguilar 26’, and Prashanth Babu 26’! Their project, “Handoff AI”, won first place at the 2026 UVM hackathon. Handoff AI is an AI‑powered tool that lets nurses record patient updates using speech‑to‑text. It automatically converts these recordings into structured shift‑report data and displays the information on a user‑friendly interface modeled after a standard bedside shift‑report form.
From the UVM article “Hack to the Future”:
18 teams of computer science and business students were dispatched throughout Innovation Hall this past Saturday for an 8-hour collaborative sprint to solve open-ended real-world problems and compete for $5,000 in prizes by building a project from scratch during the 3rd annual UVM Hackathon.
Organized by SWiCS (the Society of Women in Computer Science ), CS Crew, and the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, the event featured over 100 students of all skill levels working together to develop unique solutions in response to prompts inspired by real-world scenarios. This year, students from Middlebury College, Champlain College, and Brown University traveled to UVM to join the competition.
WICS++ Meetings
WICS++ (Women in Computer Science ++) holds biweekly meetings including career workshops, alumni panels, stress busters, and social events. For more information go to go/wics, or @middwics. (WICS++ is a student organization at Middlebury College that strives to address the concerns of our members and the computer science community at large to make the field more accessible to all. They aim to spark interest in computer science within our surrounding community through increasing visibility of programmers from historically underrepresented groups.)