CODE2040 will be hosting its 3rd Annual Hack4Diversity the weekend of July 11-12th, 2015. The theme of the hackathon is 'Closing the Gap' for underrepresented minorities in tech.
The goals are to...
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bring together the Bay Area tech community with the next generation of diverse innovators,
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generate & execute on creative ideas to close the gap for underrepresented minorities in tech, and
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create business ideas that benefit the greater community.
Eligibility
You must be a CODE2040 Fellow, TAP participant, or local Black/Latino college student to participate on one of the hack teams.
You must provide your own laptop to work on and you must be present to demonstrate on Sunday, July 12.
For any questions around eligibility, please contact Aisha Lewis at [email protected].
Prizes
GitHub Package
How to enter
Register through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1LR83aX
Judges
Marc Love
Senior Software Engineer at Carbon Five
Duretti Hirpa
Senior Engineer at Slack
Jesse Toth
Head of Web Technology at GitHub
Michael Demmitt
Engineer at Lyft
Judging Criteria
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Best Design
Best Design judging criteria will focus on visual and user-centered design. -
Most Social Impact
Judges will be asked to consider the problem, target market, “pain point”, and viability, when evaluating Most Social Impact. -
Most Creative Pitch
Most Creative Pitch will be judged on energy, crowd engagement, and uniqueness of presentation. -
Most Technically Challenging
The two main factors for the judging criteria for the Most Technically Challenging category are explaination of what is the technically challenging problem (ie., why was it hard) and the solution (especially, detailing how you arrived at the solution).