UCD students heading to Red Bull innovation championship final
- Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2024
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by Suhasini Srinivasaragavan, Silicon Republic
A team of two from University College Dublin won the national leg of this year’s Red Bull Basement competition, and are gearing up to head to Tokyo next month to represent Ireland and compete with teams from more than 40 countries for the global final.
Last week, at the national final that took place at Technological University Dublin’s (TU Dublin) Grangegorman campus, Oisin Mallon and Oisin Walsh, both aged 22 years old, presented their winning business plans for StepAhead, an artificial intelligence-supported platform that seeks to connect young people to mentors who recently navigated a similar career or educational path – and along with the national title, the two also won AMD laptops.
This year, the national winners were selected from a pool of 1,800 applicants who had to present their business plan created with the support of AI technology. The innovation competition this year was in partnership with AMD and Microsoft.
This article was originally published on Silicon Republic on 19 November 2024. View the full article here.
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