Theme: Getting Connected

Status: Hackathon Finished

Start: May 18, 2022, 8 a.m.

End: May 23, 2022, 5 p.m.

Organisation: Code Institute

May 2022 #19


Code Institute and Trust in SODA collaboratively present the May 2022 Hackathon:

"GETTING CONNECTED"

Details of what you'll be building will be announced during the Introduction webinar on Wednesday 18th May



Schedule: (All times below are GMT+1)

Tues, 17th May


Wed, 18th May

  • Register for the Intro Webinar, which kicks off the event at 17:00.
  • Teams will be assigned immediately after the Intro Webinar and announced in the dedicated Slack channel
  • Create your Slack IM group chat, & connect with your Team Facilitator.

Thur/Fri, 19th & 20th May

  • Set up your team page in the Hackathon app, project board, workspaces etc.
  • Plan your project, project management and dividing up of tasks.
  • Recommended first deployment on Friday

Sat/Sun, 21st & 22nd May

  • Each team member dedicates a minimum of 8-10 hours to working in sprints on solo tasks, chatting with, connecting and working together as a team.
  • Continuous deployment

Mon, 23rd May

  • Final touches to project
  • Update Hackathon App team page (team name, project name, banner, logo, description etc.
  • Final deployment
  • Submit project & add details to team page
  • 3pm sharp - Project Submission Deadline - no further commits or changes to projects
  • Register for the Project Presentations Webinar @ 17:00
    • At least one member per team to join.
    • Walk presenter through a 2-3 minute (max) project presentation.
    • 1-2 minutes for questions from Judges.

Tue, 24th May




Judging Criteria

  1. The project provides a clear and substantial value to the user.
  2. The project uses an original or innovative idea, design or implementation.
  3. The project was well-planned and executed, using GitHub Projects
  4. Has a well structured and completed documentation (README & Wireframes)
  5. The project focus is realistic, and has an overall sense of completeness.