Code for a cause.
Code with your friends.
Bring your ideas to life!

Welcome to the International Women's Hackathon presented by The Women of HPU Computing and Information Sciences! This event is proudly sponsored by: Microsoft, Hawaii Pacific University College of Business, HPU Project Managment / IT Club, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, HPU Computer Club, and HICTA.

Come join us on Nov 23rd at the ProtoHUB Honolulu located in Kakaako to create technological innovations to help solve world problems and make a difference! 

You’ll work in teams with other women to build something amazing (or at least get it started), pitch your solution, and share it with the world via Challenge Post. Not only will you learn a lot, but you’ll also earn Skype minutes and other great prizes, gain the admiration of family and friends, and you could see your project adopted by Direct Relief or The Nature Conservancy. You can also choose to compete in the Imagine Cup or get help in open-sourcing your code and contributing it to the Humanitarian Toolbox.

Participation in the hackathon is FREE. Just bring your creativity and a laptop.

This event is open to participants of all skill levels: those who haven’t programmed at all, those who are programming geniuses, those who have an eye in design and even product management. It will be a great weekend to learn, invent, and create the future. But not only that, you can use your innovative idea and enter into Microsoft's Imagine Cup! 

All International Women’s Hackathon participants will have the opportunity continue their solutions as part of the Humanitarian Toolbox and/or onto the Imagine Cup as well as continue hacking with all international participants.

Check out our Facebook event for regular updates: 
2014 International Women's Hackathon

Program

The event will be from 8am to 8pm.

• 8:00am - 8:30am: Registration and light breakfast
• 8:30am - 10:00am: Hackathon Kickoff
• Introduction
• Iris Kawada, Castle High School Senior, and Sofie Castacio, HPU mentor: Developing an iPad app for Assisted Learning
• Evelyn Wight from the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii: Conservation and Invasive Species of Hawaii
• Stuart Scott, Deputy Director General, IESCO & GPCEA: Climate Change via Skype
• Natalie Waters, Oceanit Civil Engineer: Design Thinking Process and Recycling in Hawaii
• 10:00am - 12:00pm: Break into groups
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm: Lunch - Explain submission process
• 12:30pm - 2:30pm: Continue building apps
• 2:30pm - 3:00pm: Break
• 3:00pm - 5:00pm: Continue building app, prepare presentation
• 5:00pm - 7:00pm: Dinner - Group presentations
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Judges deliberate
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Awards Ceremony

When you’re ready to enter your submission, go to the http://hpuiwh2014.challengepost.com homepage and click CREATE A SUBMISSION. You can also start this process and save a draft of your submission as you’re working on it.

• Make sure to include good screenshots.
• Write a clear, detailed description of your application.
• Include the link to the prototype demo
• Include instructions on how to use your app(demo).
• We recommend not creating presentation slides, but instead focusing all your time on creating a functioning demo.
• On the submission form, list all your team members by their ChallengePost user name.

• Appropriateness to Theme (40 points)
  Full points if the solution addresses the challenge & takes other factors or information into account
• User Experience & Functionality (20 possible points)
  Full points if the solution intuitive & high depth of functionality
• Originality & Impact (20 possible points)
  Full points if it is an innovative solution and has large scale impact.
• Technical difficulty (20 possible points)
  Up to 20 points for a high technical challenge