HarrisburgHacks is a mini-hackathon for middle school and high school students

Harrisburg Hacks is a fun mini-hack for middle school and high school students. Create a project, either hardware or sortware, and submit it for judging. A free T-shirt for all participants. You do not need to have any experience in coding. Lunch will be provided.

Please bring a laptop and charger, and any other hardware you need for your hack. If possible, bring a water bottle.

Tentative schedule:

• 8:30 - Registration opens 
• 9:00 - Welcome and team forming
• 9:30  - Seminar: Make your first game in Scratch
• 9:30 - 11:00 Hands-on: soldering table
• 11:00  - Seminar: Thunkable - Build your first phone app
• 12:00 - Lunch
• 1:00  -  Seminar: Website coding 101
• 2:00 - 4:00 Hands-on: robot table
• 2:00 - 4:00 Get help with submitting hacks to Devpost
• 3:00  - Seminar: Building apps for fun and profit
• 4:00 - 5:00 Presentations and awards

View full rules

$200 in prizes

Every participant must register at https://harrisburghacks.devpost.com/

Students should register with their own name, email and password. If they do not know their devpost account info, they will not be able to submit a project. 

All teams will submit their project on Devpost and do a live presentation of their project between 4:00 and 5:00 at the hackathon.

Parents must fill out a release form for each child.

http://www.centralpagwc.com/Harrisburg%20Hacks%202019%20Release%20Form.pdf

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