MLH Local Hack Day 2019, Swarthmore College
First Place - Reconnect - Samuel Tan, Iryna Khovryak, and Anubhav Sharma
Second Place - Great Heart Arts - Eishna Ranganathan, Sara Asgari, and Theron Mansilla
Third Place - BudLit - Sarah Chang, Jacquelyn Chow, Alice Huang, and Rebecca Lin
Fourth Place - GetMediHelp - Christina Wang, Karin Nakano, Mirabai Smoot, and Olivia Shan
☺️ Welcome! ☺️
Swarthmore College's Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Women in Computer Science (WiCS), and Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) are hosting a Major League Hacking Local Hack Day (MLH LHD).
💥 WHEN AND WHERE? 💥
Local Hack Day will be on December 7, 2019 from 9:00am to 9:00pm at Swarthmore College in Singer Hall on the 2nd Floor.
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⚡️ ABOUT LOCAL HACK DAY ⚡️
Local Hack Day is an event where you can bring your ideas to life by building new projects and working together with others. Students worldwide will be participating in one-day hacks and can participate in workshops and talks with a community around the world. Over the course of 12 hours, attendees will use hardware and software to build everything from websites to robots to mobile apps and more.
✌🏾THEME: HACKING FOR SOCIAL GOOD✌🏾
With the rapid advancement of technology, it is important to use its power in ways that benefit society. MLH LHD challenges its participants to hack for social good, and create an opportunity for us to explore the intersection between technology and society. Categories include education, environment, human rights & health, and diversity & inclusivity.
🙌🏾 WHO IS WELCOME? YOU! 🙌🏾
This is an event for all skill levels, from beginners to the most veteran developers. Workshop attendees will learn skills that they can apply in their projects, schoolwork, job, and beyond. Team size must be limited to 4 people per team (or under).
⏰ SCHEDULE ⏰
9:00 am ☀️ Checkin & Registration (Singer 222)
10:00 am ✨ Opening Ceremony (Singer 222)
10:45 am 🚀 Team Formation & Hacking Begins
12:00 pm 👩🏽💻 Algorithms: Hack the Technical Interview by Joshua Brody (Singer 221)
During this workshop, you’ll learn strategies to help you perform better in technical interviews. You’ll practice algorithms, ask and answer questions, and get more comfortable with technical interview challenges.
1:00 pm 🥗 Lunch Break — Panera (Singer 222)
2:00 pm 🛠 MakerSpace Workshop by Jacquie Tull (Singer 221)
3:00 pm 👨🏽💻 How to Collaborate with GitHub by Tia Newhall (Singer 221)
In this workshop, participants will create an account, become familiar with the GitHub platform, and use a best practice collaboration workflow to add their hometown to a map of all Localhost participants!
4:00 pm 🖥 Everything you need to know about Side-Projects by Mike Wehar (Singer 221)
I love working on side-projects. I run two communities dedicated specifically to side-projects. In this talk, we will discuss everything from finding your passion, picking a topic, staying motivated, and ultimately sharing your creation with others to make a difference.
5:00 pm 🍛 Dinner Break — Qdoba (Singer 222)
6:50 pm 📩 Hacking ends (project submission deadline)
7:00 pm 🕹 Demos Start (Singer 222)
8:30 pm 🏆 Judging by Vidya Ganapati, Harsh Grewal , Thomas Crawford, and Kevin Webb & Awards (Singer 222)
9:00 pm 👋🏽 Closing
🏆 DEMOS, JUDGING, PRIZES 🏆
We are really excited to see what you have to share with us. Fill out the Project Submission form to be eligible to win our prizes. These will be judged based on technical difficulty, social impact, innovation, and creativity. Please submit your project information in order to demo it by 6:50 pm. Prizes include Google Home Mini , Tile Mate, Travel Card Charger, and more prizes and exclusive offers from our supporters and sponsors. Demos are brief 4-minute presentations in which you will introduce your team and talk about the focus, inspiration, goal, process, and future steps.
🔗MORE RESOURCES 🔗
Participant Resources: Here you can download the material, sample code, and guides needed to participate in workshops.
API's, Resources, and Global Prizes: Tools to help you build something awesome and challenges to compete in on the global level.
Welcome to MLH Local Hack Day Build 2019: Watch MLH's welcome video
❓COMMUNICATION & QUESTIONS❓
Contact Emma Ricci-De Lucca (organizer).
We are using a platform called Slack for collaboration and chat during the event. Hackers from Local Hack Day locations around the world will be on Slack. You can chat with them about what they’re learning, building, and sharing. You’ll also be able to ask for help / mentorship if you get stuck during a workshop. You’ll get your invite to slack in the email you received when you checked in to the event (#lhd-build-2019-swarthmore).
⚙️ABOUT SWE ⚙️
The Society of Womxn Engineers (SWE) Swarthmore College chapter is dedicated to creating a supportive community for womxn in Engineering in order to bring diversity and gender parity to the field.
💻 ABOUT WiCS 💻
Swarthmore Women In Computer Science (WiCS) was informally created in the Fall of 2011, and chartered in the Spring of 2013. Women have been, and continue to be, underrepresented in the field of Computer Science. Our purpose is to create a supportive community for women in Computer Science as one way to change this trend. 📖 ABOUT CIL 📖
The Center for Innovation and Leadership (CIL) provides opportunities for Swarthmore students to develop the abilities to lead and inspire, to listen and learn in ways that meet the challenges of our time, and to reflect the values of our community. Thus the CIL will not only promote leadership but also ethical leadership and not only creativity but also creativity invested in the public good.
🎗SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS 🎗
Microsoft
GitHub
Verisign
Balsamiq
SuperHi
Amazon Web Services Educate