LI HackHers hosted its first annual Hackathon on January 15 and 16, 2022! The workshop “Learnathon” had a total of 21 attendees, and 14 girls in four teams built projects for our competition.
Congratulations to Casey, the winner of our Kahoot trivia game!
Please check out our Hackathon Resources 2022 page for our official guide and project information.
Thank you again to our amazing community partners: Juni Learning, Microsoft EDU, Jonathan Greene from Zebra Technologies, and Carla Franklin-Richards. LI HackHers was hosted in collaboration with Girls Inc. of Long Island. For more about our community partners, visit our schedule!
Winning Team
Team Swift was chosen as our winning team! Congratulations to Samantha, Vivian, and Stella for your awesome chore reward app!
Schedule
This is the schedule for our first annual Hackathon, hosted by Girls Inc. of Long Island and LI HackHers, for Middle School Girls and Non-Binary Students.
Saturday (January 15)
10:00-10:30 A.M. Opening Ceremony with Keynote Address by Carla Franklin-Richards
10:30-12:30 P.M. Microsoft Code Your Own Game Workshop
12:30-1:15 P.M. Lunch
1:15-1:30 P.M. Kahoot/Game
1:30-2:30 P.M. Juni HTML and JavaScript Workshop
2:30-3:30 P.M. Zebra Technologies App Building Workshop with Jonathan Greene
3:30-4:00 P.M. Project Descriptions/Assigning Groups
Sunday (January 16)
10:00 – 3:00 P.M Work on Projects in Teams (when available)
3:00 – 4:00 P.M Project Presentations
4:00 – 4:30 P.M Closing Ceremony (& Prizes!)
Workshop Descriptions
Code Your Own Game with Microsoft: This virtual workshop introduces students of all ages to the basics of game design and block-based coding with MakeCode Arcade. Students will get an introduction to MakeCode Arcade and code Quick-Start Games for a fun and varied introduction to the platform.
HTML and JavaScript with Juni:
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a website? Juni Learning will be hosting a session focused on the basics of HTML, CSS, and drawing with Javascript. These coding languages are essential for website design and development. At the end of this session, you will be able to code, style, and format a basic website.
To prepare for this session, please create a free account on Codepen.io.
Juni is an online learning experience where kids 7-18 years old can learn real-world skills and solve real-world problems. Juni offers online STEAM courses in topics we all wish we could have learned in school like coding, storytelling, investing, and more.
App-Building with Jonathan Greene from Zebra Technologies
Thunkable is a web based application for creating one’s own phone apps. By using a visual programming language of drag and drop puzzle pieces, you can program your very own apps without knowing any code. This workshop will teach the basic functions of Thunkable through guided examples and hands-on exercises. By the end of this class, you will be well on your way to building a cool app!
Keynote Speaker
Carla Franklin-Richards is a technology and business strategy expert with 19+ years of experience honed at top management consulting firms and her own advisory company, Carlin Solutions. She provides project management and strategic advisory services in the areas of marketing, operations, digital innovation, data science/AI and mobile application development for leading corporations and public sector agencies.
Carla is also a technology influencer who blogs and speaks frequently on gender and cultural trends in social media and technology. Her topics of focus include women in technology, online safety, and bridging the diversity divide in technology. In the past, she served as a guest technology commentator on the Arise TV network and was selected to speak in 2014 at the SXSW Interactive conference on the topics of Technology and Women’s Empowerment.. In 2012, she was featured as one of Newsweek / The Daily Beast’s Women in the World. Also, Carla was one of 50 women featured on More Magazine’s 2011 “Fierce List” for her fight against cybercrimes in New York State. Her work against online, gender based harassment has been covered by The Daily Beast, Forbes.com, Time.com, NPR, Hot97 FM (New York City), AOL’s “You’ve Got” series, HuffPost Live and the CBS Morning show.
In her spare time, Carla is an active volunteer and public speaker. She currently sits on the board of the Daycare Council of New York and the Rutgers University Center for Innovation Education, Big Data Advisory Board. Carla received her B.S. from Duke University, and an MBA from Columbia University School of Business. She and her husband reside in North Carolina with their three sons.