{"id":235508,"date":"2026-01-13T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:32:24","slug":"healthtech-platform-tackling-youth-therapy-dropouts-wins-jerusalem-student-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235508\/","title":{"rendered":"HealthTech platform tackling youth therapy dropouts wins Jerusalem student hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighty-five students from the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) built practical solutions to industry-driven challenges in just 48 hours at the school\u2019s 10th annual Great Minds Hackathon, held this week in Jerusalem. The event brought together Haredi and national religious students from Israel and around the world\u2014including India and the United States\u2014for two days of intensive, real-world innovation.<\/p>\n

Hosted by JCT\u2019s Schreiber LevTech Entrepreneurship Center, the hackathon featured more than 20 challenges across sectors including HealthTech, AI, defense, education, fintech and venture capital. Teams were tasked with designing and pitching proofs-of-concept judged by senior executives from Israel\u2019s technology, VC and defense industries.<\/p>\n

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The top prize went to ReMind, a scalable HealthTech platform that aims to lower dropout rates in youth therapy. The solution creates a \u201czero-friction\u201d link between therapists and families by gamifying children\u2019s therapeutic routines and delivering actionable, data-driven insights for clinicians. \u201cWe wanted to work on something that truly mattered,\u201d said ReMind team member Israel Shteinberg. \u201cEven if we didn\u2019t win, we wanted our work to have meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-place team SmartTest tackled a major pain point in education: manually grading handwritten exams. Their AI-powered tool, built on Vision Language Models (VLM), delivers fast and scalable results for the $300 billion global education sector.<\/p>\n

In third place was The Roots, a team that developed an AI agent for automating venture capital due diligence. Their tool extracts key data from pitch decks, performs market research, flags risks, and enables investors to explore startups via a conversational interface.<\/p>\n

Other standout projects included NexaNav, which addressed the challenge of navigating in GPS-denied environments, using advanced signal processing with defense applications; and SignalCap, winner of the best presentation award, which developed a contract-analysis and equity management platform for startup founders.<\/p>\n

The judging panel included leading figures from Israel\u2019s tech ecosystem: Gabi Levenberg (CYE), Lt. Col. (Res.) Avi Avraham (Dor Information Technologies), Dotan Levi (NVIDIA), Noam Fraenkel (JFrog), Aaron Zucker (Sapir Venture Partners), and Yaron Magal (ICAP). Teams were evaluated on technical execution, scalability, and business viability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn just 48 hours, our students turned real-world problems into working technology,\u201d said Orlee Guttman, co-founder of the LevTech Center. \u201cThey demonstrated not just creativity, but the ability to execute under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Schreiber LevTech Entrepreneurship Center runs innovation programs year-round for students, faculty, and alumni, from entrepreneurship training to accelerator programs. For many teams, the hackathon marked the beginning of continued development toward commercialization\u2014underscoring JCT\u2019s growing role in shaping Israel\u2019s tech landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty-five students from the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) built practical solutions to industry-driven challenges in just 48…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-235508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}