List of hackathons in Arlington, United States in 2015

                                                                                                                                                                                          HACKING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW   Random Hacks of Kindness returns to the Capitol of the Freeworld (DC), and you're all invited to build solutions your community is facing or help others solve it for their group. All developers, businesses, community leaders, designers and everyone in-between can create something amazing from nothing. We empower the community with the tools, knowledge and connections it needs to improve their community's lifestyle via hacking for kindness.   Join the convo with #RHoKDC on any platform Join us on Facebook RHoKDC.org    BREAKDOWN   Friday Happy Hour from 5pm to 7:30pm Saturday Starting the hackathon at 9am including challenge introductions and special guest. Wrapping up around 6pm Sunday 9am-ish to wrap up the work, and judging all hacks at 5pm   CHALLENGES   Have an idea on how to change the world? Submit a challenge here http://goo.gl/forms/Rx78eAqpkh.    Submitted Challenges: Altavozcoin.com Hacking the public blockchain for Entertainment Operation Winter Warmth.org (Possible)    Example of a good challenge statement: A [background] about what your group and its goals via [Challenge Statement] is much like a {Use case for programmers} giving us [Scenarios] context to let the participants get a better understanding of the [Components] thereby letting the RHoKers know the {Classes} of users for the challenge and finally any [Resources] what you have to add to the stone soup.     (note Those wishing to submit a challenge RHoKDC1215are simply asked to make a simple donation. It can be a canned food item or clothing item for Operation Winter Warmth and the fee that is asked is because of Eventbrite and should only be 2 dollars. if this is an issue please contact us about it helpearthfoundation@gmail.com )   WHAT TO BRING   Computers, powerstips your own extension cord and if possible a HOT Spot. We'd love it if people also brought your own coffee cup.   EPILOGUE   Random Hacks of Kindness is a joint effort founded by Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, NASA and The World Bank, dedicated to bringing software developers together to respond to challenges facing humanity in the area of natural disaster risk.  We start with problem definitions created through consultations with NGOs, governments and experts in the field from around the world, then we invite hackers to a come together to organize and go to work putting their skills to use to solve those problems with software solutions that make a difference on the ground.  At a RHoK hackathon, new technologies are born, existing platforms are built upon, and innovative new ideas attract attention and support.  At the close of the hackathon, teams present the technologies they have developed and prizes are awarded.     RIDESPLIT to RHOKDC Ride to the event & back with DC shared ride startup Split - download the app at split.us and sign-up with promo code RHOKDC for free ride credit! #ridelocal @ridesplit   JUDGES  Dr. Joseph Santoro @Joseph_Santoro Neuro PhD, #Changemaker#Technologist, Creative Strategist, Fmr White House/OFA Honcho | #Politics#Startups #Data #Awesomeness | HIR:@HiredHero @SW_DC @Forbes   Partners & Sponsors  GOLD SPONSORS     SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS             Note! Social Media Citizens please use #RHoKDC and share the short link here RHoKDC.com 

Come Celebrate the Launch of Ideal Impact We're announcing the launch of Ideal Impact's mobile app: the first news-based, social impact app (now available on Android and iPhone/iPad). Ideal Impact is a civic-tech company that turns news into action for social impact. Our apps empower you to immediately act on the news stories that most inspire you. We hope to unite people motivated by service, civic engagement, and advocacy with leadership opportunities that address society's social challenges.  To kick things off, Ideal Impact and  Impact Hub DC are hosting a panel discussion about what it takes to join the board of a non-profit organization. Panel Discussion: How to Join a Non-Profit Board Our panel of experts will provide insight on: 1.  non-profit organizations governance workings; 2. required skills and experiences for Board membership; 3. how to get in the pipeline to serve on non-profit boards in the Washington, DC area. The panelists: Maureen Dwyer  Maureen Dwyer is the executive director of Sitar Arts Center, a creative youth development program for underserved youth in Washington, DC. During her tenure, the Center grew from a small afterschool program to a year-round visual, digital and performing arts education program with 850 students. In 2015, under Maureen’s leadership, Sitar Arts Center won the Washington Post Excellence in Nonprofit Management Award and in 2014, Maureen was selected as a class member of Leadership Greater Washington. Maureen serves as the secretary of the Board of the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates and is on the membership committee of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative. Maureen holds a BA in drama from Catholic University of America. Previous careers as a performing artist and early childhood educator (as well as parenting three boys) shape her convictions that the arts are vital for positive youth development and the opportunity gap for youth from low-income homes must be closed. Sara Gibson Sara Gibson has over fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit sector.  She currently serves as the Chief Development Officer at Miriam’s Kitchen and the Board Chair for Jubilee JumpStart.  Sara dedicates her professional life working toward a day Washington, D.C. when all homeless people are able to find housing, all children have access to high quality early childhood education and the city reaches its full potential.  She has previously served as the Director of Development at the Sitar Arts Center and at Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington.  In addition, Sara served as a development consultant for French and U.S. clients while working in Paris in 2007.  Sara is a member of Leadership Greater Washington’s class of 2015 and has been recognized by The EnVest Foundation as one of the 40 Under 40. Sara holds a BA in Political Science and Communications from Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana. Sabrina Hersi Issa Sabrina Hersi Issa is the CEO of Be Bold Media, a digital agency focused on global advocacy that produces Relief Hack, a hackathon series to build and improve technology tools used for humanitarian relief and Vanguard, a global donor engagement program. She is the co-founder of End Famine, a campaign dedicated to developing sustainable solutions to hunger, food security and humanitarian assistance. She is the 2015 Event Chair of Web of Change at Esalen. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian (US), Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Nation.Washingtonian Magazine named her a Woman to Watch as part of it’s annual Most Powerful Women issue. Sabrina sits on the board of directors of Exhale Pro-Voice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Web of Change and the Project on Middle East Democracy. She was formerly the President of the Board of Directors for Women, Action & the Media. Olivier Kamanda (Moderator) Olivier Kamanda is the founder and CEO of Ideal Impact. He is a fellow at the Halcyon Incubator and the Truman National Security Project. After founding and leading Foreign Policy Digest, an online magazine aimed at engaging young Americans in international affairs, Olivier served as a speechwriter and senior advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Adams Morgan in Washington. D.C. He is a long-standing volunteer and sous-chef at Miriam’s Kitchen, a homeless services organization based in DC, and a campaign partner to The Way Home Campaign to end chronic homelessness. In 2014, Olivier was named one of D.C.’s “Most Influential Leaders Under 40” by Washington Life Magazine. Olivier earned his bachelors degree in science and engineering from Princeton University and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  About Impact Hub DC (Event Host) Impact Hub DC is a coworking & events space for a community of entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, and professionals taking action to drive positive social and environmental change.

In "Give Me Five", a remarkable presentation by Maria Esquela,  you will follow her journey of effort to apply emerging technology at various scales to help people with upper limb differences.  Hear stories that illustrate the way key women - youth and adult -  are leaders in STEM; matching recipients' requests to digital humanitarians which has grown to include managing a global distributed inventory. From young girls participating in hackathons and R&D, through educating with project based learning, these women have helped heal the world through Enable service learning projects. With innovation and sharing IP within the Open Source movement, the Enable Community has inspired many.See the results - what children around the world have done using their new hands. It's crowdsourcing, communication and STEM with heart. Your attendance includes a one-year membership in Women in Technology of Central Maryland! Registration includes breakfast catered by Einstein Bros., featuring breakfast sandwiches, salmon and bagels, and greek yogurt parfaits. Maria and her youth groups began volunteering in the e-NABLE community last fall after researching e-NABLE and attending their first conference, "Printers Meet Prosthetists." With the help of Direct Dimensions, an Owings Mills, MD company, and their medical advisor, Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon and bionics expert Albert Chi, MD, her team took on a request for an inventory of devices for a hospital in the Middle East. In 48 days, they learned to 3D print and held 7 workshops, printed 3 arms, coordinated with 3D printers from around the world, and led assembly of over 100 hands. Maria now oversees the research and development, testing and educational programs of the Enable Community Foundation (ECF). Registration will close at 5 PM on Tuesday, Nov. 17.  keywords: tech, mce, eda, htc, 3D

Join us for the DC Equity Lab's College Readiness Hackathon on November 7, 2015 at E.L. Haynes High School located at 4501 Kansas Avenue, NW in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Help us reach our ambitious goal of 1000 Ideas for Equity with innovative ways of preparing all of our students for the college of their choice! Come and learn new skills to solve old problems! Connect with entrepreneurial teachers! Refresh your professional practice! #1K4equity

Mission: Launch, in collaboration with our sponsors, partners and members of the Rebuilding Re-entry Coalition, invites you to attend the 2nd Rebuilding Re-entry Hackathon - Washington, DC! This free and open-to-the-public event is designed to be accessible, energetic and innovative. We provide the space and the hospitality (music, food, awesome people, swag gifts) so that we, collectively, can "roll-up our sleeves" and get to work. The entire event is about problem solving and building solutions (on a small scale) together. The tone and spirit of this event is collaborative. We operate in a safe space that believes in "default open" - meaning all solutions and thoughts are for the greater good. Our singular goal is to make prison/jail re-entry more efficient and effective, for us all. Are you a resident, community leader, government official or service provider? Have you served time in prison or jail? Do you have first-hand experience as a family member or friend of someone who has been incarcerated? Do you know how to code - or are you interested in learning and practicing your skills? This is an event for you and everyone like you. Our hackathons are for anyone interested in positively contributing. Re-entry is critically urgent and we are on a mission to create viable tech and non-tech solutions to improve outcomes for those with criminal justice system connections. There will be some best practice and statistics sharing but this gathering is about real action - and getting stuff built.   Last year, we hosted the 1st ever social justice hackathon focused exclusively on re-entry - and over 250 people showed up over the course of 3 days. This year we would love to see the ideas sparked by that event and new ones take flight. Register now and join us!  * We take a local focus - by working with the practices, programs and policies relevant to the DC region - but if you are traveling to join us, we are sure it can be relevant to your community as well!  Event Day 1: Saturday, October 31st @ Impact Hub DC (3rd Floor)  We will have a Halloween/harvest themed event. Accommodations will be made for those who need to leave early to trick-or-treat/party it up.  9:30 am - Registration + Light breakfast  10:00 am  to 10:30 am - Kick-off  + Context setting 10:30 am to 11:00 am - Pitches 11:00 to  to 6:30 pm - Hack! Hack! Hack! + Lunch & dinner 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Report back  Event Day 2: Sunday, November 1st @ Impact Hub DC (3rd Floor)   This is daylight savings day. Translation: you get an extra hour to sleep make up for last night :)  9:30 am - Registration + Light breakfast  10:00 am - Report back  10:30 am to 2:00 pm - Hack! Hack! Hack! + Lunch  2:00 pm to 3:00 pm - Wrap-up + Prototype team formation (in prep for Demo Day April 2016!)  Still have more questions? See you below.  What is a hackathon?  At the basic level a hackathon is an event (lasting more than 1 day), in which a group of people engage in collective computer programming. Our event is a little different. We invite speakers to share their re-entry experiences; and we talk about the importance of tech and non-tech solutions. The aim of our hackathon is to build prototyped solutions that provide the formerly incarcerated fair chances at safely navigating to the core of society. We do this because it is important to engage the public-at-large in this social justice topic. Using tech for social good, driving impact through coalition, and sharing real-life stories that ignite empathy are what our event is all about.  Why is this 100% focused on re-entry?  Mass incarceration, criminal justice reform, and what could happen if campaigns to "decarcerate America" are successful have become hot topics. We are grateful for this surge in interest, conversation, and true momentum.   If you are new to the topic, consider this: 1-in-4 Americans has an arrest or conviction record; Adult Americans unable to vote (due to various felony voting law restrictions) total 5.85 million people; 70% of women and men released are unable to find employment upon release due in large part to social stigmatization and/or competitive hiring markets. Over 700,000 women and men come home annually, with this number expected to increase. It is beneficial for all of us that returning citizens be given a fair chance at becoming self-sufficient, contributing members of society.  Ok, but how does this really work? We provide the physical space, the swag (shirts, stickers, buttons type of stuff), internet, meals and music. The program opens with short speeches designed to provide context so that everyone has a baseline knowledge of what the barriers to prison re-entry are in this region. We then move into the pitch portion. Anyone can stand and share a problem they see as well as an opportunity going unnoticed. The pitches are 60 seconds or less and you can pitch as much as you like. This year the Coalition is focused on building solutions in 3 key areas: The right to work; Sequencing service providers; and, Visualizing data. That said, anyone can stand and pitch ideas outside of this. Once pitches are finished, we vote (as a group) by moving our feet. This means teams form based upon the gathering of active participants who are eager to build a particular idea into a prototype. Sometimes there are teams of 1 and at other times there are teams of 15 people working to solve a problem or rising to meet an opportunity. The rest of the day is spent working together on the prototype. Throughout the program, we report back, and ask for help from those present.  At the wrap-up, each team reports back to the entire room (sometimes it is a PowerPoint but most times it is a live website). We clap, cheer, and celebrate as we head home for the weekend. The next phase begins. Teams that are committed stick together, and we support them in incubating their ideas for the next 6 months. They come back to present the prototypes after having months to work together, at Demo Day. The projects with viability will be supported in growing to scale.  Should I know how to code (or even be good with computers) to attend? Nope. Contributions (such as your lived experience and your outside opinion) are important to teams. That said, we LOVE coders. We find that both expert and newbies are helpful - all programming languages welcome. A familiarity with GitHub may prove useful but there will be folks on hand to help.  Do I need to know about the topic to attend?  This year our event will take place over the course of 2 days. We encourage everyone to attend the morning session on Saturday because the short speeches will provide context. Hearing first-hand accounts to the barriers will help to inform the work of teams.  Can you give me an idea of what teams might work on?  Last year, attendees raised nearly 20 well-known barriers to re-entry in the DC region. This wasn't shocking because the reality is re-entering society is multi-faceted. The feedback was that it was helpful to unpack all of the roadblocks a person may face in re-entry but it felt overwhelming because teams didn't know where to start or end in their prototype. To address this, the organizers have decided to focus the event around 3 areas. We welcome new ideas for sure but will endeavor to build real solutions around the right to work (barriers to employment/entrepreneurship), sequencing services (barriers to knowing where to go for help, and when), and data visualization (barriers to understanding the complexities of re-entry.  Can I volunteer?  Yep! We are always grateful for volunteers to assist in registration, setting out meals/snacks and helping with t-shirt distribution. To volunteer please email: Laurin@Mission-Launch.org.  Is it really free? It isn't always easy to rally funding and support, but we keep the event free to ensure all members of the community can attend. If you are able to make a donation, we would love to receive your support. Should your schedule shift and you are unable to attend, please let us know so that we can share your ticket with someone else.  Where is Impact Hub? Impact Hub is located in the Penn Quarter section of Washington, DC. The exact address is 419 7th St., NW Washington, DC 20004. The event will take place on the 3rd Floor both days. If you are traveling via Metro, the nearest train station is Archives (on the green line). There are parking lots as well as street parking (sometimes limited) available.  Can I wear a costume on Saturday? Of course! If you are comfortable with it, so are we. I'm sure you won't be alone.  I am coming from out of town, can you help me?  Are you traveling out of town and need suggestions on travel arrangements? Please email Laurin@Mission-Launch.org. 

Have you always wanted to build the next SnapChat? Let's take your idea for an app and make it real. Build a mobile or web app in a weekend @ HBCUHacks Morgan State!   HBCUHacks returns to Morgan State University! Join us for this special hackathon designed for college students. Learn what it takes to build an app and build a prototype in a weekend in this fast paced hack competition. Meet other students interested in tech and build something that you can put in your portfolio or keep working on after the hackathon. Meet tech company recruiters and network with companies looking to hire for internships and full-time positions. Who should attend this event? Any college student interested in learning about startups or thinking about starting a career in technology.   Do I have to know how to code? Being able to code does help. However, there are many other roles for students who want to be involved in this hackathon, such as designers, marketing, and creatives. If you don't know how to code, but are interested in learning, check out online tutorials like Codecademy.   Where: Morgan State University School of Business Baltimore, MD Prizes and food will be provided throughout the event.               Partners:             About HBCUHacks: HBCUHacks is a series of weekend hackathons that provide students at HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) the opportunity to flex their coding, design, and business skills and work together to build software and mobile apps. Presented by Black Founders (a 501c3), these hackathons identify talented students and develop the pipeline of minority tech talent.  

El Hackathon 2015 - Washington D.C. #LATISM15 Igniting the Latino Community to Drive the Innovation Economy. El Hackathon - The National LATISM Hacking Marathon (Hack-athon); a 40hr event for developers, entrepreneurs, innovators and designers to join forces and engage in collaborative computer programming. The goal is to build a "Hack" over the duration of the hackathon and introduce new technologies or concepts that solve problems for the Latino community or tap into the Latino market. El Hackathons is a launch pad for ideas, a place where developers, designers, entrepreneurs and curious folk can meet and build creative projects. We encourage you to develop fun projects that take into consideration issues revolving education, health, business in the Lationo community. You don’t have to be an expert developer to participate; you just need to have the drive to learn and play with code!   Attendence is FREE for people who wish to participate in the Hackathon. El Hackathon is part of the #Latism15 conference. Hackathon participants do not need a conference ticket. You just need a laptop a great idea and the energy to work for 40 hours on your project! To find out more about the #Latism15 conference, go here: http://conference.latism.org/register/ We will host the event at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C.   LOCATION: The Comference Conference Room (The LATISM Hackathon Room) JW Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C. 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Whashington, DC 20004   Prizes: 1st Place: $2,000 2nd Place: $1,000 3rd Place: $500   More prizes are on the works, stay tuned!   Prizes by MongoDB : Two MongoDB World 16 tickets   Prizes by Consumer Reports : Electronics and Subscriptions!     Also Participating:    FEMA | Homeland Security.       Schedule (Subject to change): Wednesday: 6:00 PM: Registration  6:30PM: Hacker Welcome 7:00pm: Hackathon starts. Networking and team building 8:00 PM: Snacks Rest of the night:  Hacking Thursday: 9:00 AM:   Breakfast 10:00 AM:  Hacking continues 11:00 PM:   Collaboration Session 1:00 PM: Lunch 3:00 PM:   Workshop 4:00 PM:   Workshop 4:30 PM:   Cafecito Break 5:00 PM:   Snacks 6:00 PM:   Hacking 7:30 PM:   Dinner - LATISM Gala Awards (optional) Rest of the night:  Hacking Friday: 9:00 AM:   Breakfast is served 10:00 AM: Status update  10:30 AM   Submit Hack Presentation Open 11:00 AM:  Hack Submissions Closed 11:30 AM:  Presentations begin 12:30 PM: Presentations End 1:00 PM:   Winners Announced 1:15 PM:   Lunch 2:30 PM:   Top 3, Demos to #LATISM15 Conference audience (10 min each)  3:00 PM:   Hackathon closing remarks  5:00 PM: LATISM Closing Reception Judges: TBA Judging Criteria: Creativity Design Technical Ability Impact on the Latino community (Value Proposition) Call for Volunteers: Want to help organize the Hackathon? Get in touch with Oscar on twitter to volunteer! contact @oscargt El Hackathon Rules: 1. Code All projects must be programmed at El Hackathon. Code must be fresh and not pasted from previous projects. Frameworks (like wordpress, bootstrap, angular js, processing/arduino etc.) or APIs (google,facebook, instagram,foursquare, twitter, etc.) to speed up development are highly encouraged. Make sure you list which frameworks were used. Prior to El Hackathon you may work on your logo, wireframes, design, idea validation, mockups, you name it. But no coding beforehand. 2. Code Review Hacker teams will be subject to a code-review to ensure everything was built at the hackathon. 3. Remember this is a hack! Feel free to use any frameworks, hosting service, languages, tools, workarounds, tricks or shortcuts you’ve discovered over the years to help you build quicker. 4. Teams you must have at least one other person in your team to participate, no robots allowed as your only teammate. Ideal team size is 3-4 people. Robots, androids and other “chatarras” can tag along if they really want. 5. What to Build Execute a unique idea around our theme; community, health, education and business. 6. Intellectual Property Ownership of I.P. and code belongs to the team that created it. Your team has full ownership of your product and are free to do as they wish with it. 7. Submissions We will be using a TBA system to organize and list project for review. A group of judges will take a look at all the projects and make a decision based on your project demo. 8. Last and Most Important Rule HAVE FUN! It’s El Hackathon! A chance to experiment, collaborate and socialize for the sake of creativity and innovation. Location: JW Marriott, Washington, DC  

**Money SHOULD not be an obstacle to join this amazing opportunity.  If you cannot afford any of the above tickets, please complete this form and a member of our community will get back to you: Volunteer Form Moving Latinos To Drive The Innovation Economy: Latino(a)s over index in social media, mobile and technology consumption. We need to move from the passenger seat to the driver seat. LATISM’15 brings together the top leaders and influencers in the space. Our goal is to take a 360 approach. To touch tech innovation from every angle. From the grassroots movements that mobilize the community, the spectrum of professionals who are ready to drive if/when included in the conversation to the policies that need to pass for sustainable development. LATISM’15 aims to empower our Latino community by: ❖ Showcasing and galvanizing existing Latina/o entrepreneurs, developers, health practitioners, bloggers, digital leaders and educators who excel in the use of tech innovation and social media to impact the community. ❖ Educating and Empowering the global Latino community of parents, educators, health professionals and digital influencers about the use of technology to improve education, health and finances. ❖ Facilitating a platform where founders can find the resources they need to move from an idea to the launch ❖ Fostering a community conversation of best digital practice and policy that supports common causes and represent the voice of the voiceless.  ❖ Host the traditional hackathon where Latinos in Tech Startups can participate and earn seed funding to get to prototype stage.

Developers have a unique opportunity to improve our country's legislative institutions; as the public increasingly turns to social media in all areas of their lives, it is essential that Congress fully incorporate these platforms into its daily operations. This event will bring together developers, transparency activists, and Members of the Capitol Hill community to explore how that incorporation should take place.

Every day, incredible things are being done by businesses all over the U.S. America's entrepreneurs and businesses are creating new technologies, new products and new innovations - leading to new jobs and new futures. FreeEnterprise.com tells those stories. We're looking for talented developers, designers and entrepreneurs who are willing to work with us on finding the best and most innovative ways to showcase these stories on our site, and to shine a spotlight on the impact of American businesses. Attendees at the Free Enterprise Hackathon will be asked to create a web application or tool for freeenterprise.com. The tool must utilize at least one of the data sets provided; however, we encourage tools that utilize multiple data sets and provide useful insights, information and data correlation that would be helpful and interesting to website visitors. * Applications should be able to run on Linux platform and be submitted to an open source repository.   To create the web application or tool, Free Enterprise Hackathon attendees must use at least ONE of the data sets below: Required Data-sets Attendees must use at least ONE of the data sets below: 1. ADP a. ADP Small Business Report b. Regional Employment Report 2. Dun and Bradstreet a. D&B Direct 2.0 3. Bureau of Labor Statistics a. Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject 4. Census Bureau a. Business Dynamics Statistics (1976-2012) b. Economic Indicators Time Series (various years – present) c. The 2015 Planning Database (2015) d. Economic Census (2012, 2007, 2002) 5. Data.gov a.  Census API - By Coordinates 6. Quandl a. USA GDP Growth Data b. USA employment c. Starup and Venture Capitalist   Success at the Free Enterprise Hackathon is recognized and rewarded! 1st Place $1,000 AmEx gift card per team member The overall winning team will get the opportunity to accelerate their winning prototypes with the FreeEnterprise.com team. The program will include desk space at D.C.-based global incubator and seed fund 1776, as well as networking opportunities with key stakeholders on the Free Enterprise team. 2nd Place $350 Apple gift card per team member   Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 6:30-8:30 pm EST Pre-Free Enterprise Hackathon Virtual Session via WebEx Saturday, October 17th 08:00 am Event set-up and Partner set-up 09:00 am Doors Open 09:00 am Breakfast 11:00 am Opening Ceremony & Presentations 11:30 am Coding Begins 12:00 pm Lunch 01:00 pm Breakout Sessions 06:00 pm Dinner 12:00 am Midnight Snack 12:00- 8:00 am Hack through the night* *Although staying overnight isn’t required, we highly recommend it. Sunday, October 18th 07:00 am Breakfast 11:00 am Submission Deadline 11:30 am Lunch 12:30 pm Round 1 Judging 01:30 pm Round 2 Judging 02:30 pm Awards 03:00 pm Closing Pre- Hackathon Workshop A pre-hackathon virtual workshop is a virtual session hosted via WebEx on October 13th, 2015 from 6:30 pm EST to 8:30 pm EST. All developers, designers and entrepreneurs as well as hackathon partners are invited to join the session. The Free Enterprise team will propose their challenge and answer any questions to help ensure an amazing experience. This would also be a great opportunity for idea vetting, networking and team building.   Winners of the Free Enterprise Hackathon will be selected by a panel of judges that includes industry leaders as well as one representative from each partnering company. All judging will be done on www.hackathon.io.  Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores: Simplicity (5 points): Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less? Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Design (5 points): Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?   Brittany Heyd  Margaret Shepard James Sneeringer  Managing Director, 1776 Executive Director, Communications and Strategy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Director, Online Communications, U.S. Chamber of Commerce     Code Review: Winning teams may be subject to a code review, usually following the event or after demos. Team Size: Teams of up to 5 humans are allowed. You can also add 1 cyborg, Furby, drone, or Sphero. Submissions: Projects must be submitted to Hackathon.io. Submission time is normally 1pm Sunday unless stated otherwise. DEMO your hack: You must demo your hack in order to present. No slide decks or powerpoints will be allowed. Don’t be scared if you didn’t finish… it’s okay long as you tried your best. You will have two minutes for demos, and one minute for judges' Q&A. Fresh Code: All code developed as part of the Free Enterprise Hackathon must be FRESH–that’s how we keep these things fair. Before the start of the Free Enterprise Hackathon, developers can create wireframes, designs and user flows. They can also come with hardware. But to keep things fair, all code must be written onsite at the Free Enterprise Hackathon. Other than that, almost anything goes and you can use any coding languages or open-source libraries you’d like. Who Owns the IP? Participants will own the rights to their work; however, we kindly ask that all code be submitted to a Open Source Repo. Partnering companies may have their own terms and conditions for proprietary technology or content. Participation Agreement: Developers, designers and entrepreneurs are required to sign this agreement in advance of or upon arrival at the Free Enterprise Hackathon.   Join the conversation using #freeenterprisehack View #freeenterprisehack posts