B-prepared Hackathon in Budapest

The B-prepared Hackathon finals on the 19th of September 2025 were a great success. Our university was represented by Fridolin Spiegel, an aerospace engineering student in his bachelors, and by one of our researchers from the AI-Lab, Prakash Jamakatel. They both achieved the second place in the VR-prepared and IM-prepared challenges respectively. Congratulations!🎉

The team of Prakash, Kai Sommer and Björn Döschl worked on a game running in the browser both on Desktop and Mobile platforms. Their goal is to raise players’ awareness of the avalanche risks faced by skiers, snowboarders, and mountaineers in alpine regions. In the real world, persons are required to carry an avalanche transceiver. This is a small handheld device that emits and receives radio signals, allowing rescuers to quickly locate buried victims. The game guides through the process of using such a device to find such victims. We plan to integrate this game into B-prepared soon, stay tuned!

Meanwhile, Fridolin developed a game that trains laypeople to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and to call emergency medical services (EMS) within the game. This topic is crucial: most people rarely refresh their first-aid training, and very few have practiced making an emergency call before a real emergency occurs. Great work!

Fridolin will continue refining his prototype during his studies. Once it is complete, we will integrate our dialogue agent into his game to provide realistic simulations with professional call-takers.

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