🏆 1st Place · CSC Changemakers 2025November 2025World Cup 2026

AteneaWorld Cup 2026 companion with native accessibility.

Native iOS so any fan — wheelchair, low vision, social anxiety — can live the World Cup without barriers. AR navigation with on-device CoreML, Panini album with scanning, Apple Watch, Live Activities and Siri shortcuts. Privacy never leaves the iPhone.

RoleLead iOS · AR · Apple Intelligence

StackSwiftUI · ARKit + RealityKit · MapKit · Vision · ActivityKit

Venues16 venues · Mexico · USA · Canada

Three countries, sixteen venues

One app to live the entire World Cup, from Vancouver to Mexico City.

Atenea understands every stadium: ramps, elevators, accessible routes, noise levels and quiet areas. The accessibility layer crosses every feature — onboarding, map, community, album and emergencies with Apple Intelligence.

iPhone · Onboarding

Smart Navigation from the first tap

Welcome screen explaining the value in 4 messages — find stadiums, live AR navigation, accessibility profile and community. Accessibility is picked at signup, not hidden in settings.

Smart Navigation AR
Accessibility profile
4 clear messages
FIFA 2026 ready

iPhone · Community

FIFA 2026 feed with custom tags

Federated Mastodon feed with All / World Cup 2026 / Trending filters. Official posts like the FIFA World Cup Draw on December 5th, fan zones and community recommendations.

Mastodon federado
All · World Cup · Trending
FIFA World Cup Draw
Fan zones + recos

iPad · Map with venues

Accessibility-crossed suggestions

MapKit map with FIFA 2026 venue markers + category chips (Bars, Restaurants, Cafés, Museums, Parks, Markets, Shopping, Gyms). Directions with per-mode times (car, walk, transit, bike, scooter).

✓FIFA 2026 markers
✓8 POI categories
✓Multi-modal with times
✓MapKit + CoreLocation

iPad · Profile + reservations

Sebas · 24 trips · 12 achievements

Profile card with stats — completed trips, accumulated points (1.2K), unlocked achievements. Live match card at the bottom (BBVA · Monterrey) and accessibility settings reachable from the profile itself.

✓24 trips completed
✓1.2K points · 12 achievements
✓Live match card
✓Accessibility settings

iPhone · Panini Album

24 of 640 stickers — and counting

Digital album with 7 sections (Intro, Venues, Group stage, Teams, Legends, Specials). Each section has a progress bar. AR Scan button to collect physical stickers.

✓7 themed sections
✓640 total stickers
✓AR Scan physical → digital
✓Section achievements

iPhone · Contextual AI

Clean · Suggestions · Dinner

Three AI buttons cross location + time + profile to suggest places. Fan avatar on the map with active green route to MetLife Stadium (New York · Nov 22). Floating card with the next match.

✓3 contextual AI chips
✓Avatar + green route
✓Next match card
✓MetLife · NY · Nov 22

iPhone · Emergency mode

Apple Intelligence picks for you

“Do you want to use atenea or Phone?” — Apple Intelligence proactively suggests the right app when an emergency is detected (shake gesture or keyword). SOS routes through a private mesh if cellular drops.

✓Apple Intelligence prompt
✓Shake gesture trigger
✓Private SOS mesh
✓App Intent · Emergency

Apple Watch · Companion

Four shortcuts on your wrist

Navigate, Favorites, Recents and Community — without pulling out the iPhone. Each action announces location with directional haptics and configurable clock-face position (12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, etc.).

✓Navigate · Favorites · Recents · Community
✓Configurable clock position
✓Directional haptic per turn

1st Place · iOS

CSC Changemakers 2025

Recognition

Winners of CSC Changemakers 2025, iOS category.

Atenea won 1st place in the iOS category of the CSC Changemakers Challenge 2025 — accessibility brief for World Cup 2026. The jury highlighted the deep Apple Intelligence integration, the inclusive approach from the first commit and the private emergency mesh for saturated stadiums.

✓Best on-device Apple Intelligence use
✓Best native accessibility approach
✓Best Apple Watch companion

Capabilities · Full system

Accessibility as first principle, not a layer at the end.

Every Atenea feature crosses the accessibility matrix. Voice isn't an add-on: it's the main navigation mode when the screen isn't enough. Sensitive data stays on the iPhone.

System core

Apple Intelligence + CoreML on-device

App Intents for Siri (10 pre-configured shortcuts), Writing Tools and Spotlight integration. Local CoreML models cross user needs with every stadium point of interest. Nothing leaves for the cloud.

App IntentsWriting ToolsSpotlightCoreMLVision

10Siri shortcuts

0 PIIcloud egress

4a11y profiles

16official venues

<5KBWatch route

Dynamic Island

Live Activities turn-by-turn

ActivityKit shows distance, instruction and speed. Refresh every 3-5 s across compact, minimal, expanded and lock-screen.

3-5s update

Siri · App Intents

10 pre-configured shortcuts

“Navigate to Estadio Azteca”, “how many stickers?”, “activate emergency”, “accessible restaurants”. Each VenueEntity exposes search + suggested invocations.

voice-first

Mesh network

SOS without internet

BLE + UWB form a private mesh that relays messages to a node with coverage.

BLE + UWB

Multi-modal

4 transport modes

Car, transit, Ecobici, walking. Each prioritizes ramps and quiet zones based on the profile.

MapKit

Panini stickers · AR

Vision detects physical cards

Scan street cards, unlock the digital version. Tiers common → legendary, AR 3D stadium posters when completing sections.

common → legendary

Community

Federated Mastodon feed

Filters All / World Cup 2026 / Trending. Official posts, fan zones, verified recs. Open protocol: no one monetizes your data.

@mastodon

Services

Backend custom + Claude API

REST endpoints (registration, profile, visited places, plans and recommendations). Claude (Anthropic) processes natural-language search with real-time streaming. Swift singleton services with MVVM.

Swift · MVVMClaude sonnet-4-5REST · streamingWatchConnectivity

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Hackathon stack

What we shipped in 3 weeks.

Clear bets: SwiftUI over UIKit for fast UI iteration, ARKit + Vision for server-less AR, local Apple Intelligence instead of shipping prompts to OpenAI. Every call was measured against ‘does this work in a stadium with no signal?’.

iOS

Swift
Base language
SwiftUI
Declarative UI
Figma
Design system

watchOS

Swift
Companion · haptics

AR/AI

RealityKit
AR stadiums + stickers
Notion
Technical docs

Backend

Python
REST · recommendations
GitHub
SocialChallenge repo
Vercel
Deploy preview

Closing

Three weeks, one person, one barrier-free World Cup.

Atenea was born at the CSC Changemakers 2025 — accessibility brief for the World Cup 2026. The thesis: inclusion isn't designed last, it's designed first. Native iOS + Apple Intelligence + Apple Watch on a single platform.

16Official venues

10Siri shortcuts

4a11y profiles

~3.5kSwift lines

Team

EC
Emilio Cruz V.
Lead iOS · AR · Apple Intelligence

“Make sure the World Cup is accessible to everyone. Atenea isn't another map — it's a passport to inclusion.”

— CSC Changemakers 2025 pitch