The Zaporizhia Polytechnic team won the II All-Ukrainian Hackathon “Energy of the Future”

On April 14, the 2nd All-Ukrainian Hackathon “Energy of the Future” took place in Lutsk. The hackathon is a startup competition that brought together youth, businesses, and educational institutions for energy innovations. Teams from leading technical higher education institutions in Ukraine participated.

The event is possible within the framework of the “Professional Qualifications” component of the project “Promoting Energy Efficiency and Implementation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive in Ukraine”, which is implemented in Ukraine by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Government of Germany, with the support of the NGO “School of Energy Efficiency”.

The team from Zaporizhia Polytechnic University, “Green GigaWatt”, won, taking first place in the competition and becoming the absolute champion of the All-Ukrainian Hackathon. The team also became the best according to the results of voting by other student teams from universities in Ukraine.

The Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University was represented by two teams from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. “Green GigaWatt” (GGW/Green GigaWatt) from the Department of Electrical Machines and “Eco mesh” – the Department of Electromechanical Automation and Electric Drive Systems.

The “Green GigaWatt” team consisted of students: Oleksiy Silyutin (E–253sp), Danylo Maltsev (E–211), Mykhailo Ilchenko (E–252sp) and associate professor of the department Oleksiy Petryk. Under the leadership of senior lecturer Viktor Bondarenko, the team presented at the competition a modular system based on the Scandinavian ventilated facade “Marmoroc” (Ukrainian brand – “Scala”). It integrates solar panels and wind turbines with additional functionalities: facade landscaping, video surveillance, lighting, outdoor advertising, etc.

The technical consultants were Svitlana Lapkina, assistant professor of the Department of Electrical Machines, and Andriy Barbashov, head of LLC “Trade and Industrial Company “Scala”.”

Congratulations to the winners! We are proud and wish you new achievements!