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This is Martin High School's first annual Hackathon, geared towards high school students, taking place right here in the MHS Cafeteria in Arlington, Texas. Put your engineering and design skills to the test and create a software - or hardware - based solution to solve an issue that you have noticed in or with schools and students.
Schedule:
DAY 1
10:00AM - Sign In
11:00AM - Opening Ceremony/Introduction to Hackathons
11:30AM - Hacking Begins
11:45AM - Ideation Session
1:15PM - Lunch
2:15PM - Guest Speaker, Allen Jaworski (L3 Systems Engineer)
5:00PM - Guest Speaker, Amanda Villa (ACSO at Parkland Hospital)
6:30PM - Dinner
7:45PM - Trivia Contest
10:00PM - Karaoke Session
11:00PM - Exploding Kittens Tournament
DAY 2
12:00AM - Midnight Snack
1:00AM - Beat Saber VR Tournament
2:00AM - Dos at Dos!!
3:00AM - Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament (Part 2)
3:30AM - Quiet Time (Sleep Period)
7:30AM - Quiet Time Ends (Wake-up Time!)
8:00AM - Breakfast
10:30AM - Project Pitch/Presentation Workshop
11:15AM - Submissions Open
12:00PM - Hacking Ends (Submissions Due!!!)
12:15PM - Lunch
1:00PM - Presentations
2:00PM - Awards Ceremony
2:35PM - Closing Ceremony
Eligibility
High school students from the DFW area are invited to attend. If you are not from this area your ticket will be denied. Also, It is preferred if you come with a pre-formed team of four (4). Four (4) is the maximum team size.
Requirements
Think of and create some sort of solution to a school based problem, preferably mainly with code. You may use physical tools, i.e. Amazon Alexa's, Arduino's, etc., but you must provide them for yourself. Additionally, it is not expected that you have a fully functional project, as the idea and creativity is a heavy aspect of a hackathon. However, we expect you to have atleast a demo (doesn't need to be that great, it just needs to demonstrate your ideas) of your project completed for judging.
Prizes
Hacker's Choice
This prize is a 3rd Generation Echo Dot and L3 Tumbler awarded to every member of the team who receives the highest peer votes!
First Place Project
First place prize is a Nintendo Switch and L3 Tumbler awarded to every member of the team who made the best project at the event, as decided by the judges!
Runner-Up Project
Second place prize is a Razer Blackwidow Chroma X Keyboards and an L3 Tumbler awarded to every member of the team who made the second best project at the event, as determined by the judges!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
If you want to come to the Hackathon, you must preregister at the eventbrite here. Please do this as soon as possible. Do be aware though, that you must be from a DFW high school, and for each eight (8) hackers you bring, you must have one teacher or guardian approved by your district to be a chaperone. Additionally, if you go over eight (8) in team size, you must have another chaperone (i.e. one (1) through eight (8) students require one (1) chaperone at the minimum, nine (9) through sixteen (16) students require two (2) chaperones at the minimum, and so forth).
Judges
Fadiah Qudah
Computer Science Instructor at UTA
Allen Jaworski
Systems Engineer at L3 Technologies
Peter Seggelink
Director of Content Creation at Dodge Data & Analytics
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
The uniqueness of your project will be graded. Don't ride solely on this however, as your project must also be realistic and applicable to our prompt. -
Quality
The overall quality and condition of your project will be judged. This includes how much your project can do at this time, and how it looks, however what your project can accomplish at the time of submission is much more important. -
Complexity
This is a wide span of judging criteria, including the difficulty of the software you used and the project's overall "intelligence" (i.e. using high level programming techniques, having a robust project) -
Presentation
The quality of your presentation will be judged. Please note that this doesn't mean how you project looks, but instead how you demonstrate and show it to the judges. Although, a nice looking project always helps. -
Efficiency
Your project will be judged on how well it solves your chosen task.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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