St. Charles High School’s 24-hour hackathon is a technology innovation marathon where students across Maryland, DC and Virginia come together to collaborate on new ideas by building mobile, web and hardware projects. HackSCHS invites diverse groups of students to enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and other fun activities. At the end of 24 hours, participants’ projects are presented and judged for different prize categories from sponsors and other organizations.

Eligibility

HackSCJS is an event organized by high school students for high school students. Only those attending the event may submit a presentation for a prize. 

Provide Challenge Category, Group name, Member Names, School and contact information ( Phone number and email)

Requirements

St. Charles Creative Challenge

Build, design or create a solution to a real world problem that can be solved with technology. Throughout the process of creating a solution, you will be able to learn and explore different ideas and skills through workshops, sessions and mentorship by organizers, mentors and sponsors. This challenge is not restricted to any programming language, platform or resources. You may use any materials you have or materials we can provide (Ex. Raspberry pi, Arduino or Circuit Playgrounds).

 

Code

  1. Design an app to address problem in the school or broader school community using assistive technology and circuit playgrounds.
  2. Beginners: Use design mode to mock up a user interface and then add basic functionality in Code Mode (switching screens or changing text based on button clicks)
  3. Advanced: App must incorporate data tools including read / write / update / delete records blocks to enable some functionality directly tied to the purpose of the app. 

 

NICERC

Antipode
An antipode is the opposite side of the globe (sorry, flat earthers!). When given a street address, find the antipode for that location and provide a link to the location on Google Maps. Bonus points: provide a weather report and time of day for that location.

Trendy Pictures
Create a program that tracks Twitter Trending topics and provides the first image from a Google Image search for each topic. Bonus if the results are embedded in a static HTML page that can be refreshed every 5 minutes.

METAR Decoding
Each airport reports weather conditions for pilots. These reports are known as Meteorological Aerodrome Reports, or just METARs (“mee-tarz”). The information is encoded in a particular format. The format was created in an age before modern computers could decode and display data. Make a program that can make sense of the information and provide the report in “plain English” for users that don’t know how to decode a METAR.

 

AWS Educate

Best Hack using AWS Cloud

Prize: Amazon Gift Cards

 

Unity

Best Hack using Unity

Prize:

Best Design

Best Photo composition

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$450 in prizes
Google Home Mini
4 winners

Best Design Adobe CC 1 year Membership
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Charmaine Thompson

Charmaine Thompson
Charles County Public Schools

Melissa Miesowitz

Melissa Miesowitz
Vice Principal/ Charles County Public Schools

Matthew Howard

Matthew Howard
Teacher/ St. Charles High School

Judging Criteria

  • St. Charles Creative Challenge
    Build, design or create a solution to a real world problem that can be solved with technology.
  • Code Challenge
    Design an app to address problem in the school or broader school community using assistive technology and circuit playgrounds.
  • NICERC
    Solve one of the following: Antipode, Trendy Pictures or METAR Decoding
  • AWS Educate
    Best Hack using AWS Cloud
  • Unity
    Best Hack using Unity
  • HackSCHS Bonus
    Best Photo Composition
  • HackSCHS Bonus 2
    Best Design

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