Present your ideas to fight COVID-19 in the UNESCO CodeTheCurve virtual hackathon 2020

April 15th, 2020 at 11:59 EST

Online

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UNESCO’s CodeTheCurve Hackathon

Organized 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 pandemic-related challenges.

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• 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. Participants will also explore IT careers and the tech that powers the Fortune 500.
• 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 three challenge themes include:

1. Access to learning
2. Information and data management ML on IBM Z
3. Managing present and future social and health issues with a particular focus on COVID-19 responsiveness

Opportunity Focus Areas:

• IT
• Programming
• Data Science
• Artificial intelligence
• Data Analytics
• Project management
• Graphic Design
• Design Thinking
• Marketing
• Industry

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English

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ALL WORLD COUNTRIES

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One week

• Learning resources for pre-collaboration: April 20-21
• Online learning: April 22-23
• instructor-led sessions & activities: April 24-26

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• Members MUST be 16+ years of age

• One person MUST be under 25 years of age

• A gender-inclusive team with at least one male and one female

• 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.
• At least one member of the team must have basic Linux and Jupyter Notebook experience.

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• 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 one year to advance projects further.
• 1^st 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 our data scientists out there participating in the information and data management ML 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 project, and be empowered to take it to the next level with monthly virtual mentorship meetups with global entrepreneurship and tech thought leaders. The team will also have an opportunity to have a featured session at IBM Z Day to pitch, describe their hackathon journey, and the solution they created.

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First Step: 

Submit a two-minute video explaining the solution or idea your team has in one of the challenge themes or send the video to the following email address: [email protected].

Notes:

1. Submissions must be at the idea stage and not already in-market.
2. A selected panel of expert judges will select 40 winning teams and announce the selected teams on April 20.
3. Winners will be announced on April 30.
4. For more information, contact Davide Storti ([email protected])

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