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RE students score big at local hackathon
Ransom Everglades students earned two top-three finishes at the Young Coders Initiative Impact Hackathon, a student-run competition that challenged high school students to propose tech-driven solutions to Miami’s most pressing urban challenges. Atakan Turgut ’28 and Cohen McDaniel ’28 earned first place and Girish Raju ’27 and Owen Brue ’27 scored third place at the event, which brought high school students from across South Florida to The Cushman School on May 17 to present their plans to address climate, housing and civic issues.
Turgut and McDaniel shared their vision for a platform, "Tenant Shield," to combat climate gentrification by instantly analyzing complex eviction documents and automatically routing vulnerable Miami tenants directly to local legal aid organizations. Raju and Brue presented "Hold The Line," a website engineered to protect Miami’s Urban Development Boundary from Everglades encroachment.
Ransom Everglades' Brandon Heller ’27, Salo Sawicki ’27, Mateo Gomez-Peck ’28 and Leonardo Rivera ’27 presented "FloodSight," hyper-local flood forecasting tool built for Miami's low-lying neighborhoods, providing advanced scenario modeling in multiple languages.
The winners were awarded a cash prize pool of $1,500 funded by the local tech start-up Detect AI.
"We are incredibly impressed by the dedication, technical skill, and civic-mindedness your students demonstrated, and thought it was important to inform you of their participation," said Arihant Jaggi the president of the Young Coders Initiative.
The winners were awarded a cash prize pool of $1,500 funded by the local tech start-up Detect AI.
"We are incredibly impressed by the dedication, technical skill, and civic-mindedness your students demonstrated, and thought it was important to inform you of their participation," said Arihant Jaggi the president of the Young Coders Initiative.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. It is rated the top private school in Miami and among the 10 private schools in North America. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.
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