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WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN?

Hustlers/Entrepreneurs:

• Hackathons are great places to test ideas, build a startup, build leadership and practice your pitching skills.

Designers/Creatives:

• Design for real company scenarios and expand your portfolio. This is a chance to apply design thinking methodologies from ideation to research to prototyping.

Hackers:

• Create a technology toolkit that can have real impact. Challenge your coding skills and use it as an opportunity to learn new languages and tools.

Students:

• Hackathons provide lots of opportunities to get startup-like work experience. It’s a great way to build your resume and demonstrate your drive, your ability to be creative, work in teams, and innovate.

Corporate Employees:

• If you’re looking to break out of your current role, or are reentering the workforce, Hackathons are great for sharpening and developing new skills, experimenting with new job roles.

Inventors and Early Adopters:

• This gives you the opportunity to stretch your creativity in a fun challenging environment. You’ll be with like minded people and you can lead the way for first other first timers.

REGISTRATION:

Individuals must obtain a ticket from eventrbite to partipate in the event.

Note: participants must be 16 years of age, and minors must have parental approval before attending.

(Note Times are in PST)

Friday, November 10th, 2023 (VIRTUAL)

6:00 - 6:30PM: Networking Kick off

6:30 - 7:00PM: Find a Team/Know your Team

7:00 - 7:30PM: Hacker mindset workshop by Hackathon international

7:30 - 8:00PM: Last chance to Find a Team and network!

Saturday, November 11th, 2023 (MindsDB AI Collective, San Francisco)

8:30 AM: Check-In

9:00 AM - 9:30AM : Opening Ceremony & Program Overview

9:30 AM - 11:05AM: Design and Innovation 101: Brand New to Design Thinking

11:05-12:00PM: Non Profits Problem Statements / Q&A

- Hacking Begins-

12:00 - 1:00PM: Group Brainstorming and Project Planning (Apply Design Thinking Workshop)

1:00 - Mentor 1:1 sign up

2:00-3:00 PM - HTML & CSS Intro Course by Adiel Harris

1 0:00 PM Time to work from home

Sunday, November 12th, 2023 (MindsDB AI Collective, San Francisco)

9 :00 AM MindsDB is open for hacking

10:15 - 11:30 AM Morning Check-in with Mentor

12:00 PM - Team submission deadline

12:30 - 12:45 PM - Introduction to our Judges

1:00 – 3:00 PM - Team Presentations

3:00 – 4:00 PM - Closing Speaker: Navigating Your Career Authentically with Meg Rice and Virginia Martinez

4:30 - 5:00 PM - Winner Announcement + Wrap Up

*schedule is subject to change

Note: this will be a packed event. We recommend bringing power bars to make it easier to share plugs!

• Quality of the Idea (5pts)
  Is the idea a strong minimal viable product for the customer to use today? How impactful is the solution for the issue you are hoping to help solve? Does the solution fulfill one of the participating NGO’s requirements?
• Design (5pts)
  How well the idea was designed by the Team? How well thought out and complete is the design? Is it easy to use? Is it visually appealing? Is the design intuitive? Does it flow naturally?
• Pitch/Presentation (5pts)
  A clear problem statement and why the solution addresses the issue. Participants’ proposal should be able to drive and improve business processes based on the challenge provided by the Poster. A sense of teamwork should be present.
• Technicality (5pts)
  Includes the practicability and ease of implementation in a customer environment Does it work? Lo-Fi vs. Hi-Fi Prototype, Technical effort