Every year, ScriptEd students, volunteers and staff come together for an all-day Hackathon.
The theme of this year's Hackathon is DARE, EXPLORE, DISRUPT.
Over the course of the day, students in ScriptEd Advanced classes collaborate in teams to build interactive web-based projects around the general theme of exploration and innovation.
At the end of the day, students will submit their projects for two rounds of judging, and the winners take home some awesome prizes!
Eligibility
Teams of 5-7 students, all of whom must be currently enrolled in ScriptEd Advanced or Studio classes. Students must have completed ScriptEd's Foundations course. Students must be participating from New York City and be in person at the hackathon.
Requirements
Projects will be submitted as live gh pages links + github repos. In the submission process, teams will be required to submit screenshots of their projects and answer a series of questions.
Students will need to answer the following questions:
- What is the name of your project?
- What does this project do?
- What was your inspiration for this project?
- Who is this project targeted to?
- What challenges did you run into?
- What accomplishments are you most proud of?
- What did your team learn?
- Please list all the members of your team (first and last name), your team name and the volunteer who helped.
Please remember that these questions will be published online as a part of your project description.
Prizes
HP Chromebook
One team will win the first place prize of an HP Chromebook - each member will receive their own laptop.
Amazon Fire Tablet
One team will win the second place prize of an amazon fire tablet. Each member will receive their own.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To enter, your team must register on this page via your Project Documentarian. Your team's name will be associated with their github account.
Your team should get started by forking and cloning this Starter Code (found at github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/hackathon).
Judges
Erica A Webber
Global Director, Industry & Services at IBM Research
Jacob Aronoff
Software Engineer, Datadog
Barry Clark
Head of Engineering, Trello
Wyatt Shapiro
Co-Founder, Dear Tech People
Keeley Duffey
Co-Founder, Pluto
Britt Lewis
Engineering Manager, Plated
Pedro Baumann
Co-Founder, Vía Código and CTO, Athelas Perú
Giulia Lake
Freelance Developer
Joey Mejias
Freelance Android Developer
Judging Criteria
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HTML & CSS Concepts (UI/Design)
Excellent projects will have: High quality user interactivity. Project is very well organized and user can use application without any additional instructions. -
JavaScript Concepts
Excellent projects will have: Code is well structured and uses functions effectively. No redundant code. Team includes a third party library if necessary. -
Cleanliness of Code
Excellent projects will have: Code is pristine! Developers outside of the team would be happy to work with this code. Little to no errors/ warnings exist. -
Functionality
Excellent projects consist of: Site is fully functional (80-100%) - meets intentions (e.g. actually does what you say it is supposed to do). -
Teamwork
Excellent projects will have: All students are able to talk about the functionality of the project. All students are able to answer any questions that came up. -
Concept Fidelity
Excellent projects have: design & functionality of the project is directly useful. Project has application in a clear, unique way.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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