This is a hackathon hosted by the System Design Engineering department for our 1A students to provide extra learning opportunities and encourage teamwork among peers. A hackathon is an event in which people work together in a short amount of time to carry out a solution to a prompt or problem space. We host this hackathon to encourage 1A students to connect with each other and get to know hackathon as a type of learning opportunity. 

There are three main themes in this hackathon:

1. Climate change and environment

2. Covid-19 and E-learning

3. Creative life hacks

We would provide some sample prompts which would provide some inspiration to all the themes. However, you would need to define your own problem space which means you are welcome to use the prompts we gave, but don’t necessarily need to. You are also welcomed to modify the prompts as you wish.

 Challenges:

1. Climate change and Environment

Design a product or system which will improve air quality in big cities while doubling as a tourism opportunity.

1. COVID-19 / ELearning 
   Design an app (can be any system or web app) which allows you to experience different cultures and travel the world while staying home.

2. Life HacksSimulate your winter holiday decorations and program a customized light sequence in the programming language of your choice.

• Creativity
  The creativity criteria measures how the project is being innovative and how it can bring a positive impact to the society.
• Logic
  In this criteria, we want to evaluate how well the solution is tied into problem space. Does the solution actually solve the problem in a large system? A thorough analysis of the current system in any form would be valuable.
• Presentation
  We are evaluating the quality of the prototype/proof of concept as well as the quality of the demo video.
• Learning
  We are also looking at the content of the Devpost you wrote which documents your learning from this hackathon. What are some strategies you use to solve obstacles?