On August 19-21, the SUSTEX Hackathon 2024, organized with the support of Most BI and the Teplo Charitable Foundation, was successfully held at the International Educational Corporation on the basis of KAZGASA. The event brought together teams that offered innovative ideas and solutions in the field of textile waste recycling.
During the hackathon, participants listened to a series of lectures and master classes from leading industry experts, exchanged experiences with like-minded people and presented their projects to an independent jury and event partners. The total prize fund amounted to 500,000 tenge, and the winners also received vouchers for a trip to Turkey.
Hackathon results:
– 1st place: Reveco team – Recycling of wearable clothes into a new product.
– 2nd place: the Eco Seat team – Ecological seats made of rice husks and textile emissions.
– 3rd place: The “EcoWise” team is an application with a system for calculating the carbon footprint of textile products from the production of raw materials to decomposition in landfills and/or recycling.
– Audience Award: The MindWorks team – The re.omir project is a web application for the sale, exchange and recycling of clothing aimed at reducing textile waste and reasonable consumption.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the participants for their contribution and active participation.
