August 2024 #49

Theme: Pixel Pioneers: A Retro Gaming Hackathon

More details will be announced during the introductory webinar.

Schedule: All times are in BST (Irish/UK time)

Wednesday, 14th August

• Register for the Intro Webinar Here, which kicks off the event at 17:00.


• Teams will be assigned immediately after the Intro Webinar and announced in the Slack channel.


• Create your team Slack channel and connect with your Team Facilitator.

Thursday/Friday, 15th & 16th July

• 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.

Saturday/Sunday, 17th & 18th August

• Each team member dedicates a minimum of 3-5 hours per day to working in sprints on solo tasks, chatting
  with, connecting and working together as a team.


• Continuous deployment.

Monday, 19th August

• 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 Here @ 17:00: At least one member per team to join and present.

Tuesday, 20th August

Winners will be announced at 4pm on Slack.

Judging Criteria

To be revealed at the Intro webinar