Update: Join us for the 2nd Annual Ithaca College code{a}thon

Innovate, Create, and Solve 

Register as a team or as an individual to get to work building innovative applications for good. This year’s event has three main thrusts:   

  1. Tools that innovate on problems facing society. 
  2. Tools that create new ways to interact with the community 
  3. Tools that solve systemic issues 

Bring ideas, large and small, meet people, professionally and causally, and come join us for a 24 hour non-stop event. There will be free food, coffee and Monster to keep you and your team on track to build something great! 

The final product submissions will be judged in a fair format with judges moving from table to table (you can show the judges on your computer or phone) on Sunday, December 2, 2018.  Each team should prepare an informal (about two-minute) pitch describing their concept and demonstrating the product.  Expect to give the pitch multiple times as teams of judges come through to see your work.  

Presented by the Ithaca College Computer Science Department, Women in Computing, IT@IC, and Ed Tech Day 

Eligibility

Open to college and high school students as well as their mentors and chaperones. To be considered for prizes, all code must be written during the event. 

Requirements

After the event, winning teams must make their products available for viewing online as either a video presentation or live example. We would like to congratulate you on Ithaca College’s Intercom newsletter.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$400 in prizes
First place
1 winner

First place team will win four (4) $50 gift cards.

Second place
1 winner

Second place team will win four (4) $50 gift cards.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

Register for the event here as an individual or team (up to 4). The first hour will be devoted to participants discussing ideas and forming teams. Bring an idea to inspire others or come ready to support! Come and go as you’d like but be sure you and your team are there for the opening and closing ceremonies (Egbert hall is locked from 11:00pm-10:00am).

Judges

Todd Blakemore

Todd Blakemore
Associate Director Solutions Architecture

Becky Lane

Becky Lane
Vision-Lab 360

Jenna Linskens

Jenna Linskens
Associate Director Learning Technologies

Sharon Stansfield

Sharon Stansfield
Associate Professor and Chair, Computer Science

John White

John White
Associate Director Enterprise Architecture

Mark Yowan

Mark Yowan
Associate Director Systems Architecture

Judging Criteria

  • Difficulty/Challenge
    Coding ain't always easy. Be sure to share the amount of effort your team put into the project with the judges.
  • Creativity
    Are you building something new and different? What about reinventing an old idea with a new perspective?
  • Usefullness
    Is this project going to be helpful? Does it have purpose? Will it have a positive impact on anything?
  • Scalability / Global Impact
    Does this idea have the potential to reach many people? Could it be used by diverse groups of people in different regions of the world?
  • Polish / Wow Factor
    Aesthetics, presentation and user interaction.

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