HACK2040 is a 12 hour hackathon organized by CODE2040 alumni that will bring Black and Latino/a students from local high schools, colleges and programs together to come up with ways to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the tech industry. The goal is to create ideas that will diversify the tech workforce in the next 25 years, when people of color will no longer be the minority in the country.
Hackathon is open to software and hardware projects!
Students are expected to bring their own laptops.
SCHEDULE
Friday
6:00 p.m. - HACK2040 opening reception begins
6:45 p.m. - Introductions
6:50 p.m. - An Unconventional Path to Technology by Charles Duncan (W+K)
8:00 p.m. - Reception ends
Saturday
8:30 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Welcome & Orientation
10:00 a.m. - Design Thinking with Mauricio Ruiz (W+K)
10:30 a.m. - Form teams
11:00 a.m - Begin hacking!
12:30 p.m. - Lunch
6:00 p.m. - Dinner and workshop on pitching
11:00 p.m. - End of hackathon
Sunday
8:30 a.m. - Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Welcome and CODE2040 Video
9:30 a.m. - Group presentations
11:00 a.m. - End of group presentations
11:30 a.m. - Prizes
12:00 p.m. - End of HACK2040
A very special thanks to our company partner and host Wieden+Kennedy New York!
CODE2040 is a nonprofit organization that creates pathways to educational, professional, and entrepreneurial success in technology for underrepresented minorities with a specific focus on Blacks and Latino/as. CODE2040 aims to close the achievement, skills, and wealth gaps in the United States. Our goal is to ensure that by the year 2040 - when the US will be majority-minority - Blacks and Latino/as are proportionally represented in America's innovation economy as technologists, investors, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Eligibility
You must be a student in high school, college or a coding program. Priority is given to Black and Latino/a students (please see above to learn about the CODE2040 mission), but all students are welcome to register!
You must provide your own laptop to work on and you must be present to demonstrate on Presentation Day.
For any questions around eligibility, please contact Julian Gutierrez at julian@code2040.org.
Requirements
Judging will not attempt to order the hacks into first place, second place, etc but will instead be limited to category prizes. The judging team will include judges with a technical background able to discern the difficulty of different hacks.
Prizes
Fiverr's Design Prize
A cash prize of $200 per student (up to 4 students max) will be given to the team with the best user experience in terms of the quality of graphics, intuitiveness of design, and ease of use.
Foursquare's Global Impact Prize
The Foursquare prize will go to the team with the project that has the great potential to impact the global community by appealing to a need experienced by many people. The prize includes $50 per student and a visit to the foursquare office, where each student will get a special foursquare swag bag.
CODE2040's Technically Difficult Prize
CODE2040 will award a cash prize of $125 per student to the team with the most technically difficult project. For example, an image processing or search algorithm that was completely implemented within the project.
Roximity's Proximity Prize
This category will be awarded with the team with the best implmentation of location-based technology. Each student on the winning team will receive a 5 pack of ROXIMITY's Model O beacons. These are some of the smallest, most powerful beacons on the market. Using the beacons and ROXIMITY's platform, developers can begin to leverage location messaging and location data into their apps. ROXIMITY O Beacons can last up to 15 months and have a replaceable battery.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
REGISTER on our Eventbrite!
You can register for this hackathon here: bit.ly/hack2040nyc
Priority will be given to high school and college students of color, but all students are welcome to register!
Teams
Teams do not have to be formed ahead of time, although submissions should include the list of team members. Teams are allowed to have up to four participants.
Judges
Tek Kim
Business Development and Local Market Strategy at Fiverr | Early Stage Investor
Jason Rosado
CEO of Givkwik
Shikha Thakkar
Sales Engineer at GitHub
Aakash Gandhi
Product Engineer at Oscar Health
Judging Criteria
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Global Impact
Does this idea really tap into the big picture? Is this team going to change the world? Is the team solving a problem in a fresh new way? -
Design
Does the feel of this product match the use case? Is this product easy and intuitive to use? Are the visual elements high quality? -
Technical Difficulty
Did the team do something impressive technically? Did they create their own algorithm or roll their own tools?
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