May 2025 #60

Theme: Branching Out: A Family Hackathon

Join us in celebrating the International Day of Families.

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

Wednesday, 14th May

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


• If you are not registered on the events platform please send an email to events@codeinstitute.net and we will help get you setup. You can also click the Contact Us button on the events platform.


• 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 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.

Saturday/Sunday, 17th & 18th May

• 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 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.


• 5pm sharp - Project Submission Deadline - no further commits or changes to projects.


• 6pm sharp - Project Presentation Video - Follow This guide on how to make the presentation video.

Wednesday, 21st May

• RSVP for the Awards Ceremony Here @ 17:00: At least one member per team to join.