COVID-19 SchoolHack
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Hi Everyone
As a school founder, education is never far from my heart. Some friends have created a free hackathon to create ideas to educate children while they stay at home to avoid COVID.
If you are interested the Eventbrite registration & details are below:
COVID-19 SchoolHack
School districts, CMOs, and charter schools across the United States are struggling with how to deliver high quality education to students amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Many schools have closed, impacting the learning and social emotional health of millions of students nationwide. Education leaders are in dire need of solutions NOW to help stem the crisis. Therefore, we decided to launch a school hack to match education organizations with experts to solve critical problems NOW.
What is the COVID-19 SchoolHack?
A 2-day virtual hackathon that brings together educators, technologists, engineers, designers, students, and industry professionals to address the most critical issues in K-12 caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
What problem areas will this event be focused on?
Supporting Vulnerable Students: How do we provide services to students with special needs, foster youth, and students with little/no technology access?
Supporting Education Organizations: How do we support districts and charter schools with instruction and operations during this time of crisis?
Dates: April 4 and April 5
Location: Virtual
Teams of 4-5 will be formed at the beginning of the event. We will use collaboration tools such as Zoom, Slack and Google Drive.
Who can participate?
Education Partners: Partner representatives can be CEOs, Executive Directors, Principals, CAOs, COOs, IT Directors, Curriculum Directors, and/or Special Education Directors of a school district or CMO. Education Partners submit a critical problem they need solved NOW. Partner time commitment (all times in PST):
Saturday 4/4 - 10-11am or 4-5pm: Offer office hours to teams via Zoom so that they may ask you questions about the problem
Sunday 4/5 - 1-2:30pm: Attend the pitch presentations via Zoom and vote
Experts: Experts can be school leaders, district leaders, teachers, engineers, social workers, special education specialists, designers, technologists, industry leaders, graduate students, parents or high school students. They participate in both days of the Hackathon. Experts can submit an idea/solution or join another team, work on the idea/solution, and create a pitch deck that the team will present to judges on Sunday, April 5. You can bring your own team or connect with other experts at the Hackathon. Expert time commitment (all times in PST):
Saturday 4/4 9am - Sunday 4/5 3pm: Participate in the Hackathon
COVID-19 SchoolHack