About the challenge

The hackathon will be a Zoom online event where students from each chapter's school can form teams of 1-4 (team members should belong to the same school), on Feb 16-19. The theme will be: Game Development to Educate Children on Environment, and the project can be coded using any programming language/tool of their choice, and will be released which entices each team to create an innovative and inclusive approach to a certain issue. Teams will then program the idea they came up with, and create a 1-10 minute video that describes:

  1. Their approach to the issue

  2. Why they choose their approach

  3. The planning process

  4. The process/struggles they faced when programming

  5. A showcase of the program

  6. Uses of the program

  7. Improvements that could be made to the program

Teams will not only be facing off with teams within their school for a chance to win the best project within the school, but they will also be competing against teams from other chapters to win prizes granted to certain teams. Additionally, if each chapter is up for it, prior to the announcement of the topic, each chapter could hold 1 workshop that introduces either presentation, planning, or programming skills to prep teams to create their project.

Get started

Feel free to use any tools of programming languages you are comfortable with. You can also attend the workshops for more inspirations.

Requirements

What to Build

A minimum viable project (that is, a game that is COMPLETE to a reasonable extent) with educational purpose on the environment, ideally targeted towards children.

What to Submit

A github link to the project basee and a link leading towards your pitch video on a video streaming platform (e.g. YouTube).

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Prizes

$CAD 500 in prizes
First Prize
1 winner

The best/winning project of this hackathon. The whole team will receive $500 CAD as monetary prizes.

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Judges

Angela Zhu
Regional Lead, STEM Fellowship

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    - How much of your project is unique enough that people haven't seen or experienced.

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