On Wednesday, August 21 through Friday, August 23, fellows will collaborate in teams of 3 to 4 people to create projects related to our theme: CUNY "Essential Needs" for Student Success.
Hackathon Theme: CUNY "Essential Needs" for Student Success
CUNY provides resources to address students’ mental health, food insecurity, housing instability, and other basic needs in order for learning to thrive. These needs are promoted as “essential needs“ because if they are unmet, they become major deterrents to student success. The vulnerabilities associated with being hungry while trying to learn or not knowing whether you will have a safe place to sleep at the end of the day abound and challenge CUNY students far beyond reason.
Given that CUNY has developed ways to address these issues, the University wants to ensure students are aware of the availability and means to access these crucial resources and services. Although numerous resources exist, such as food pantries, counseling centers, and referral sources, many eligible students do not utilize them to their full potential.
The primary objective of all hackers is to answer the following question: How can CUNY increase awareness through digital and mobile outlets and ultimately increase usage of essential resources to meet students’ “essential needs”?
Requirements
Build the first iteration of your project that creates solutions to making CUNY Essential Needs more accessible to CUNY students.
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This is an exercise in learning.
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Code integrity is rewarded, as opposed to merely delivering a clean product.
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Students must form teams of 3 to 4 people.
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Use Discord to communicate with your teammates throughout the Hackathon. In-person collaboration is also available for those who signed up in advance.
PROJECTS:
- CUNY "Essential Needs" for Student Success themes can include all components of Awareness and Outreach Platforms, Access and Engagement Enhancements, and Data-Driven Solutions.
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Hackers can also compete for categories listed on our Devpost.
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Hackers are not allowed to use projects they have already worked on previously to the event.
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Projects can be geared toward web development, mobile development, and data science.
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Hackers should also be able to answer the question: “How does my project relate to the theme?”
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Projects do not have to be deployed. If the project is not deployed, please provide instructions on how to run it locally.
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Time:
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Hackers have from August 21 - August 23, 2024, at 10:00 pm EST to work on and submit their projects.
Prizes
Essential Needs Imagineering Award
Awarded for the innovative solution for making Essential Needs more accessible to CUNY students.
All team members will receive:
- 6 months of LinkedIn Premium
- Swag
SWE Best Practices Award
Awarded for clean code, good use of frameworks, naming conventions, documentation, and other best practices in software engineering.
All team members will receive:
- 6 months of LinkedIn Premium
Data Science Award
Data Science Award
Awarded for Excellent implementation of a data set or data visualizations as part of their project.
All team members will receive:
- 6 months of LinkedIn Premium
Team Collaboration Award
Awarded for exceptional teamwork, collaboration, and communication throughout the hackathon
People's Choice Award
People's Choice Award is determined by the number of votes received during public voting.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
David Adedayo Akokodaripon
Senior Data Engineering leader / Kyndryl
Maureen Hartigan
Associate Director / CUNY Central Office Student Affairs
Nicole Jones
Asst. Dir. Student Support Services / Brooklyn College (Food Pantry)
Ezra Zike
LinkedIn
Amit Sonar
Sr Software Engineer / LinkedIn
Robert Vance
Senior Program Manager/ Hack.Diversity
Xing Liang (Adam) Zhao
Forward Deployed Engineer / Palantir Technologies
Spencer Wohlers
Principal Product Engineer / CEO / Invisible Carrot
Manan Upadhyay
Sr. Product Manager/ Amazon
Mandy Meindersma
Senior Software Engineer/ Dotdash Meredith
Rich Palestri
Data Analyst / iQSpatial
Fahad Faruqi
Software Engineer Intern, NYC DOT
Hess Hassan
Implementation Manager / NYC Tech Talent Pipeline
Anand Popat
Senior Software Engineer / Mathworks
Ronnie Rochester
HR Professional / CUNY
Juliette Larocque
CUNY
Aniruddha Pai
Software Engineer / Handshake
Judging Criteria
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Relevance to Theme
Project addressed the prompt directly and/or addressed the prompt in a notable way. -
Essential Needs Imagineering Award
Innovative solution for making Essential Needs more accessible to CUNY students -
Team Collaboration
Judges will evaluate the level of collaboration and support among teammates, scoring from 0 to 5 points. Scores range from no evidence of collaboration (0 points) to exceptional teamwork and support (5 points). -
Quality of Implementation
Project is fully or nearly fully completed, filling out its specified requirements. -
Quality of Presentation
Project presentation is well done. The project idea and features are communicated in a way that evokes interest and understanding from the viewer. -
Team Collaboration Award
Judges will evaluate the level of collaboration and support among teammates, scoring from 0 to 5 points. Scores range from no evidence of collaboration (0 points) to exceptional teamwork and support (5 points). -
Learning-Minded
Teams indicated that they challenged themselves to take up and learn new concepts or technology. -
SWE Best Practices Award
Code is clean, good use of frameworks, naming conventions, documentation, etc. -
Data Science Award
Excellent implementation of a data set or data visualizations as part of their project.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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