Congrats to our winners!
A Saturday Brunch, Hack the Gap Demo Event
At Hack the Gap, we want to continue to serve where we can. As we are social distancing, we want to create a space and opportunity to connect and build solutions. In place of our usual in-person hackathon, we hosted our first virtual hackathon! We welcomed participants to co-create technology solutions to address the challenges and opportunities they see in their communities.
We invite you to join us on April 18th at 10 am CST to see the amazing projects. Feel free to bring yourself, your pancakes or your morning coffee and celebrate this week of co-creating, collaboration and coding in this one of a kind virtual event.
Demo day
Saturday, April 18th at 10am CST
10am - Virtual doors open via Crowdcast
10:05 am - Kick-off event
10:15 am - Hack the Gap team demos start
Community demos and Community voting
11:15 am - Winners will be announced
About the hackathon
At Hack the Gap, we want to continue to serve where we can. As we are social distancing, we wanted to create a space and opportunity to connect and build solutions. In place of our usual in-person hackathon, we hosted our first virtual hackathon this past weekend. We welcomed participants to co-create technology solutions to address the challenges and opportunities they see in their communities. We’re excited to share those projects with the community on April 18th.
PRIZE CATEGORIES
🏆 We are working on getting prizes so stay tuned! 🏆
Thanks to our sponsors and community partners
Want to be a sponsor or share a prize?
Email hello@hackthegap.com if you’d like to donate a raffle prize or be a sponsor.
Want to support?
Email hello@hackthegap.com if you’d like to support this event in other ways.
COMPETITION RULES
You’ll need to show your technology live, even if parts of the applications aren’t working. Please share a link to the tech.
Please provide a one pager or video overview of the project. This will help us understand how you approached the need.
Be sure to state how each team member contributed to the project.
JUDGING CRITERIA
The projects will be judged by problem solution; the technical impressiveness; and the impact of the idea of community, the market or the end users. No one of these categories will have more weight than another.
There will be a panel of judges. Each judge will rate the team presentation of the project with a 1 through 5 for each of the categories: innovation, technical impressiveness, and impact. The total score of each team will be tallied up and the judges will decide which team takes first, second and third prize.
Below are the judges for the virtual demo day:
Mentors
Our mentors shared their time, energy and expertise to the teams - thank you all!
Tamara Temple
Tamara Temple is a self-described "Webologist", tech maven, and deeply interested in software as a craft. As a life-long learner, Tamara has long had an interest in teaching, coaching, and mentoring people in the arts of programming and helping people to learn how to use computers to solve problems, communicate with others, and have a lot of fun. Tamara works on both back-end development in Ruby on Rails, front-end development in ReactJS and GraphQL, and loves using static site generators such as Jekyll and Gatsby. She loves coaching and mentoring new developers, and loves answering questions of almost any sort. "I am deeply committed to increasing the diversity of my chosen field by increasing the opportunities for people of colour and people with disabilities, especially. It's important for marginalized and underrepresented people to have wonderful, rewarding, and respectful learning opportunities and experiences." When not working around computers, Tamara is a mom to two grown daughters, a watercolourist, sketcher, and photographer, and sometime musician.
Ana
I participated in Hack the Gap twice, and decided to mentor this time! I am a Full-Stack Software Engineer at SPS Commerce. In my free time I love playing video games, running, dancing (lindy hop), and playing with my puppy Maya.
Aayush Tuladhar
I'm Software Development Consultant & Web Developer. I love building great products and solve problems. I am here to enable Technology to help your business provide competitive advantage. I have more than 10 years experience building high quality software and providing expert complete life-cycle services. I am passionate about designing and developing efficient solutions to solve problems and various challenges building scalable, robust and efficient systems.
Sonja Leaf
Sonja Leaf is a quality-focused software and sound engineer with a background in databases, music, video game testing and publishing. Since joining Clockwork in 2011, Sonja has created tools to speed up browser testing and streamline test plan creation. She has tested and contributed to releases ranging from commerce solutions, rewards systems, web applications, to native mobile applications and handheld console software. She has worked with brands like Nintendo, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, and Alliance for a Healthier Generation.In July 2019, Sonja formed SQL.media LLC, focused on collaborating with trans, non-binary, and queer creators in need of mixing, mastering, editing, and post-production services for audio and video.
Jessica Zehavi
Jessica has over 20 years experience as a Software Engineer working with interdisciplinary teams to build technology applications. She is versed in a variety of web and accessibility standards, has a strong background in the LAMP stack and is fluent in PHP, python, JavaScript (jQuery/prototype libraries), C, Java, HTML/CSS and in the .NET/IIS/SQL Server environment. Jessica has worked with a variety of CMS solutions including Craft, Drupal, Sitecore, and Wordpress as well as custom CMS solutions. When she isn’t at her computer, she can also be seen making art, cooking, and working with her two standard poodles, Jasper and Gideon.
Brian Mitchell
Senior Frontend Software Engineer and co-organizer of JavaScriptMN.
Ben Demaree
Ben is a software engineer working on anything from UX to Unix, often in Python and React. He’s known to get excited about distributed systems, software quality, and API design. In his spare time, he sings in a choir and tries to avoid major injuries while making terrible woodworking projects.
To all of our prior hack the gap participants and community members, thank you for being a part of our community. We hope that you are able to engage and participate in the virtual hackathon. Together, we're breaking down barriers and amplifying the voices and talents of people as well as showcasing the work of individuals.
