WomenWhocode is organizing hackathon @PayPal in San jose on 18th April 2015.

Come hack for Good !!

Lunch, dinner, and other refreshments will be provided throughout the event !!

Exciting giveaways and prizes for projects from our community supporters would be given out !!

Schedule of event

9:30am - 10:00am: registration
10:00am - 10:30am: Welcome + breakfast treats
10:30am - 6:30pm: hack hack hack! (lunch and dinner and other refreshments served during this time)
5.00 PM -Sign up for demo.
5.30PM - 6.00 PM How to pitch your Hack(optional)
6.30PM - 7.00 PM (Prep for your demo)
7.00PM - 8.30PM (Its Demo time!!)
8:30pm - 9:30pm: hackers can socialize, and judges will judge ;)
9:30pm: announce winners
10:00pm: you did it!

* if you do not have a team already, you can use the 9am-11am to form a team pronto

Optional Challenges:

MomsAgainstPoverty.org - Hack to help this awesome all-volunteer non-profit achieve even greater success and reach! Join the movement to End Childhood Poverty, get inspired and come up with ways to promote our mission. Help us organize and streamline grant discovery and application process!

JobTrainworks.org: For almost 50 years JobTrain has been helping those who are most in need to succeed. Our purpose is to improve the lives of people in our community through assessment, attitude and job skills training, and high potential career placement.  Help us keep track of past students and communicate better with current or future students!

Eligibility

12 Hours

As a contestant, your team has to develop your project during the HackForGood event which is a total of 12 hours. The competition kicks off at 10:00AM PST on April 18th, 2015 and will end at 10:00PM PST on the same day.

You can, of course, work on the concept for your application before the competition starts, including paper and/or digital mockups of the user interface and database entity diagrams. However, no production assets of any kind can be created until the start of the official competition period illustrated above. This includes "ready to slice" graphic design assets, application code, and code based user stores/test cases. Plan, don't yet start creating!  

After the Coding time is up, you'll be judged on what you've completed. No additional features or bug fixes are allowed after coding time up, or you'll be disqualified.

 

Teams of One to Five Humans

Teams must be comprised of between one and five individuals. No more than five humans are allowed on a team. To be eligible, teams must register together or form during the brief and informal assigned GoTeam period.

Requirements

Submission should include -    
  1. Name of your hack
  2. Brief 2-3 line description
  3. List of team members and contact info
  4. Link to demo (optional)
  5. Link to github repo (optional)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
Will be Announced!
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Chris Chan

Chris Chan
Leader in product innovation, Yahoo

Girirajan Murugan

Girirajan Murugan
Director, Cloud Engineering at Barnes & Noble

Nicholas James

Nicholas James
Founder, Coding House

Lisa OMalley

Lisa OMalley
Sr. Director of Global Products, PayPal

Judging Criteria

  • Innovation
    Is the solution novel? Does it solve a problem in a creative or never-seen-before way?
  • Technical Achievement
    Did the participant(s) solve a hard technical problem? Did they get a working demo completed within the allotted time?
  • Impressiveness
    How impressive the project it? Did they complete the project.
  • Impact on Social Good
    Is project related to social good?

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