Miami Tech, it’s time to do some good for your community!

Refresh Miami, the largest tech meetup in the Southeast, is teaming up with Wyncode Academy, the nation’s top-rated code school, and the Code for Miami civic hacking brigade to bring you a hackathon for the ages.

Taking place in the heart of Wynwood, the Miami Tech Social Good Hackathon is all about building real tools that can help charities and nonprofits in our local community do more with what they have and make an even bigger impact on the lives of Miami residents.

Coinciding with CodeAcross and International Open Data Day, this hackathon is open to coders, marketers, designers, and Miami tech enthusiasts.

Agenda:

• Friday, March 4, 2016 (evening): Kickoff Party! Nonprofit Presentations and Formation of Teams
• Saturday, March 5, 2016 (all day): Hacking and Q&A sessions with nonprofit representatives
• Sunday, March 6, 2016 (all day): First round of judging, Pitch refinements, Final Presentations and Award Ceremony

* Please note - There will be two rounds of judging for the event. The first round of the event will be exclusive to the charity partners. Each charity partner will choose 1 team that best solves their challenge to enter the second round. The top teams from this round will proceed to the final round where judging will be based on technical skills.  

JUDGING CRITERIA

 Preliminary Round

One organization representative and one technical representation will view 3-min demo’s from each of the teams that worked on a project for their cause. One of the projects will be selected for the final round. Below is a rubric to help guide the organization in choosing the representative for their cause.

Teams will be scored on a scale of 0-5 in the following areas:

• How well the project solves issues the organization presented
• How technically challenging the project was to complete
• The level of innovation used in the project  
• User friendliness
• Completeness

Final Round

The final round will include the winning project from each of the initiatives. This round will be a more technical round. A panel of judges will review the remaining projects using the following criteria as a guide

Teams will be scored on a scale of 0-5 in the following areas:

• Technical level of project
• Technical learning curve for building project
• Social impact
• Overall appeal

• Preliminary Round: Charities
  Teams will be scored on a scale of 0-5 in these areas: How well the project solves issues the organization presented How technically challenging the project was to complete The level of innovation used in the project User friendliness Completeness
• Final Round: Technical
  Teams will be scored on a scale of 0-5 in the following areas: Technical level of project, Technical learning curve for building project, Social impact,Overall appeal