Hackers for Literacy with English for a Song

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Where:
Pearlfisher offices
455 Broadway, 5th floor
New York, NY 10013

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I started the "Hackers 4 Good" group to meet other people that want to use their professional skills to give back to their communities – and the world at large – by hacking real world problems, and creating and building solutions that can make a difference.

The hackathon format will be approximately:
• A chosen non-profit organization, in this case English for a Song™ http://www.englishforasong.org/ ( http://www.englishforasong.org/ ), has been invited to provide a problem that they'd like help with – where they think that design and technology can help.

During the 3 hour hackathon the teams will put together a prototype based on the brief ( https://FreeAndWilling.com/fbmore?go=Hackers4Good-EFAS-2017-files ) and the Sketch designs provided.

You can use InVision if you'd like but we encourage you to add audio to your prototype using Principle, Protopie or Framer.

The winning team, and others interested might continue working on the project, if they'd like to.

Awards (tentative list):
• Best Overall Prototype
• Best Individual Game/exercise
• Best Micro-interactions

• DOWNLOAD brief and assets here ( https://FreeAndWilling.com/fbmore?go=Hackers4Good-EFAS-2017-files )

Prizes will be available (software and possibly gift cards)

More about English for a Song (EFAS):

• More than 80 million American adults Read or Speak at or below 8th grade level. 36 million of them lack basic literacy skills

• A 1% RISE IN LITERACY SKILL SCORES CAN BOOST U.S. LABOR PRODUCTIVITY BY AN ESTIMATED $225 BILLION AND DECREASE U.S. ANNUAL HEALTHCARE COSTS BY AN ESTIMATED $230 BILLION PER YEAR!

• EFAS is a free, easy to use, accessible, English literacy app for American adults, ESL students, and immigrants. EFAS marries hit songs with fun, customized learning activities that help users improve their reading, writing, and listening skills in English.

• The EFAS Team, with multi decades experience in curriculum development and adult literacy, developed a series of exercises that really teaches the language while playing and progressing through games and songs

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All skill levels are welcome. Bring your favorite prototyping tools and your laptop. Looking forward to meeting everyone! :)

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Early bird tickets (before Monday at noon here):
👉 Get your ticket for $20 ( https://freeandwilling.com/1/?go=Hackers4Good-EFAS-2017-EarlyBird-Tkt-Special )

Student tkt:
https://FreeAndWilling.com/fbmore?go=Hackers4Good-EFAS-2017-Student-Tkt

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Please note: tickets will go up to $30 (no at-the-door tickets), please buy tickets asap to help us plan the event and food.

If you'd like to participate but cannot afford the tickets please please please email me ( https://FreeAndWilling.com/fbmore?go=email-me ) and I'd be more than willing to sponsor you.

Thank you,
Francesco, Simone and the Team at EFAS

p.s. Complimentary food, water and sodas will be provided.