We are so excited that you are able to join us for the Codess Hackathon on the 11th October. We hope it will be an enjoyable day full of inspiration, collaboration and a chance to meet many talent women. We are welcoming all levels of technical, design and product experience and will provide a safe environment for you all to learn and experiment with technology, and hopefully create some unique software projects for two great causes. Please see below all the preparation details.
The Challenges
Climate Data Challenge - Sponsor: The Nature Conservancy: build a web app, mobile app or game to illustrate or visualize the impacts of climate change
Disaster Response Challenge - Sponsor: Direct Relief: build a game to help organisations and communities prepare for effective response after natural disasters
Eligibility
We welcome all engineering students and industry professionals. If however you aren't currently either of these, we still welcome people who are passionate about software development and design and would like to learn more! If you haven't already registered for your ticket, please go to: www.codesslondonhackathon.eventbrite.co.uk
Requirements
- Every team will need to give a 3 minute pitch at the end of the hackathon with a minimum viable product to be able to be judged, and you will have another 1 minute for questions from the judges. We don’t expect full solutions to be delivered during the hackathon however a demo would be a great way to showcase your work.
- Teams will judge winners locally and the application and pitch video of the winner of each challenge will be published on the Microsoft Research website after the event. We will provide small gifts for each participant as well as prizes for the winners!
Prizes
Raspberry Pi
Skype Credit
Headphones
Laptop cases
Software license
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
- Once registered for the hackathon, tick I’m looking for teammates and don’t forget to give a brief description here of the project you want to lead or get involved in, and the tech stack you plan on using.
- If you hope to lead a project, in the weeks leading up to the hackathon, you can Update your Portfolio and add more details on the software project you will be working on including the name and tagline – this will be useful to prepare ahead of the hackathon day - just make sure you keep your project visible to share with others
- For those that don’t fancy leading a project, and want to join someone else’s project – click connect with the person whose project interests you the most and drop them a message letting them know you are interested. They can then add you to the project team.
If you have your own development environment please feel free to use it on the day, or if you would like to use our technologies – please feel free to download here:
Free Visual Studio trials - http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs
Free Azure trial - http://akams/mscloudtrial
Free Visual Studio Online trial (for managing products and storing code) http://www.visualstudio.com/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs
If you are eligible for BizSpark – you can also sign up here: https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/signup/default.aspx
Judges
Lisa Long
Product Manager, Skype
Felicity Herst
Product Manager, Skype
Tatiana Toboeva
Software Developer in Test, Skype
Olya Ohrimenko
Post Doc Researcher, Microsoft Research
Haiyan Zhang
Innovation Director, Lift London
Irina Voinea
Developer, Facebook
Judging Criteria
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Technical
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Originality and Impact
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User experience and functionality
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Theme
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