Among a group of religious women participating in Jerusalem college of Technology LevTech Enterpreneurship Center’s fourth annual women’s hackathon was a solution for Deaf Israelis. The Algemeiner publication states “In response to the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, an electronic bracelet was developed for the hearing-impaired that vibrates when it detects a rocket siren and thus the need to get to a bomb shelter. The technology is smart enough to differentiate from other alarms or similar sounds.”
Photo: Participants in the Jerusalem College of Technology LevTech Entrepreneurship Center’s fourth annual women’s hackathon, May 2021. Credit: Jerusalem College of Technology.
Photo: Jerusalem College of Technology. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
This year’s hackathon operated as a hybrid model with most students in person on two different campuses (in Jerusalem and Ramat Gan) and others taking part remotely from around Israel. Post-hackathon, students can enter the LevTech Lab Pre-Accelerator to further develop products or create their own startups.
