Are you a young developer, designer, or data scientist? Join the UNESCO CodeTheCurve global virtual hackathon to come up with digital solutions to the global pandemic.
Organised in partnership with IBM and SAP, the CodeTheCurve Hackathon calls young developers and innovators to use their digital skills, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to join forces to inspire and develop digital solutions to current and future pandemia-challenges.
CodeTheCurve is organized around three main themes:
- Ensure continued learning
- Data management and information
- The present and the future: societal and health issues
About CodeTheCurve
The UNESCO CodeTheCurve global virtual hackathon is designed to enable students, educators, teachers, and the research community to build tech skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and professional competencies with a lens on digital creativity and cooperation to mobilize the world.
CodeTheCurve aims to inspire youth with new skills in a virtual, immersive environment in collaboration with other students, experts, and mentors, while creating deployable solutions and digital prototypes prepared by citizen developers, data scientists, and innovators with youth at the center. The CodeTheCurve learning and hackathon journey will be practical, hands-on, and a ton of virtual fun.
Eligibility
Create a team and submit a two minute video below meeting the following criteria:
- 2-6 people per team
- Members MUST be 16+ years of age
- 1 person MUST be under 25 years of age
- At least 1 male and 1 female
- Developers, data scientists & friends from other fields
Eligible Skills
- Participating teams should have at least one developer and/or one person with basic data science skills.
- Programming skills can include Python, Java, HTML, and/or the ability to use App Inventor or Power Apps — along with the other technical skills that you individually bring to the team.
- And at least one member of the team must have basic Linux and Jupyter Notebook experience.
Thanks to the partners, participants will receive free access to IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud, which will provide participants with open access to an enterprise-grade Linux environment for your development needs — innovation powered by open source technology.
Prizes
- All teams that complete the final submission process will receive certificates of participation from the collaborators.
- 1st place winners from each theme will have 1 year of free access to LinuxONE Community Cloud and quarterly virtual meetups with thought leaders from IBM and/or its collaborators for a one-year period to advance projects further.
- 1st place winners in each theme will also receive unrestricted access to learning resources on the OpenSAP platform, SAP DKOM or SAPPHIRE attendance to pitch their solutions, and 3-months of business mentoring/coaching by SAP experts and execs.
- For data scientists participating in the information and data management using Machine Learning on IBM Z track, the top team will also receive an extra jolt of enterprise-grade machine learning toolset access powered by IBM Z for six months to continue their amazing project, and be empowered to take it to the next level with monthly virtual mentorship meetups with global entrepreneurship and tech thought leaders.
- Selected CodeTheCurve teams can expect to land new technical and professional skills, including entrepreneurship and design thinking, media misinformation and disinformation, data analytics, Jupyter Notebook, LinuxONE Community Cloud platform, SAP Analytics, machine learning code patterns, artificial intelligence, ethics in AI, AI for social good, chatbot creation, data protection and privacy, and much more.
Application Timeline
Call for Applications opens on April 6th and closes on April 15th, and the 40 selected teams for the hackathon will be announced on April 20th. Online learning will occur on April 22nd and 23rd, and virtual hackathon activities will on April 24th, 25th, and 26th, and winning teams will be announced on or about April 30th.
How to Apply:
Click here to get started.