CU Boulder Sustainability Hackathon
What is the Hackathon?
The 2024 Sustainability Hackathon provides the opportunity to 鈥渉ack鈥 some of the sustainability issues our society is facing. Your solution to a problem could include technology or have no technology at all. The key is coming together with others who are passionate about solving problems, teaming up on a solution idea, and having fun in the process of building something to have an impact on the world. Students, baby直播app, and staff will have 168 hours to hack sustainability problems and have a shot at winning a share of $10,000!
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Event Details
Judging Criteria
Teams will be judged on multiple criteria reflecting creativity, execution, design thinking, feasibility and scalability. Judging will be conducted by a panel of industry and academic leaders.
Registration
- Any actively enrolled CU Boulder student, staff or baby直播app member can register. In the spirit of collaboration, students from other baby直播app universities are also invited to join. When teams are formed, there needs to be at least one CU Boulder student member on each competition team.
- Information about registering teams for the competition will be shared at the kickoff event.
- Industry partners and leaders from the technology industry and startup ecosystem will be involved throughout the event.
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Hackathon Schedule Oct. 17-24
2024听Thursday, Oct. 17,听CASE Auditorium听
- Kickoff:听6-7 p.m.
- Introduce the hackathon rules, agenda, mentors, etc.
- Have last year鈥檚 winners present
- Introduce sponsors
- Introduce industry partners and their projects
- Idea Builder:听7-8 p.m.
- Teams form based on ideas expressed
- Mentors present to help build ideas
- Hackathon officially starts at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 18
- Lunch Hack: 11a.m.-1 p.m.
- Networking鈥擳eams looking to connect with other people to flesh out their team
- Kickoff Workshop (presented by Meep): 5-7 p.m.
- Vision/Mission, Assumptions, Metrics, Visionary Mindset听and Defining Success
Saturday, Oct. 19
- Breakfast Hack: 9-11 a.m.
- Teams come together and meet mentors to start building their ideas
- Hack Space: 1-5 p.m.
- Provide a space with a few mentors where teams and work and build
Sunday, Oct. 20
- Meep Workshop (w/dinner): 2-7 p.m.
- 2-3:30 p.m. 鈥撎鼵ustomer Journey Mapping, Refining MVP Scope, UX Strategy, and Wireframing
- 4-5 p.m. 鈥撎齀ntro to No-Code, Choosing Your Tools, Prototype Development Best Practices
- 5:30-7 p.m. 鈥撎鼴uilding Your Financial Model
- 7 p.m. on... Work Time with mentors from Meep (Finance, Business & Product Strategy, UX, No-Code, etc.)
Monday, Oct. 21
- Workspace鈥擯resentation Prep: 5-8 p.m.
- Mentors available
Tuesday, Oct. 22
- Pitch Practice and Pitch Recording: 4-8听p.m.
- Mentorship
- Provide slide deck template
- 6 p.m. on... Group MVP Testing Session, Work Time & Pitch Practice with Meep mentors
Thursday, Oct. 24, CASE Auditorium
- Hack Submissions Due: 7 a.m.
- Video Pitch
- Executive summary
- Final Presentations: 6-8 p.m.
- Finalists' pitches
- Judging
- Awards听
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