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Have we made any mistake with the team descriptions? Let us know at contact@hackextend.comFor participants
Beit Hatfutsot
Tel Aviv University
Preparation Event
26/08/2016
10:00 AM
Hack Extend
15-16/09/2016
09:00 AM
No. Coding will end on Friday morning and the final exhibition and ceremony will close the event no later than 13:00 Friday.
You can stay up and continue developing your product, use our mattresses area to sleep (you can bring a sleeping bag for your comfort), or go back home and come back the next morning.
No, it’s free, but your application needs to be accepted.
Not at the beginning. You can apply without a group and we’ll help you find one. You can find team members during our prep event, in our dedicated Facebook and Google groups, or even at the beginning of the hackathon.
Yes, three meals on Thursday and two on Friday. Snacks, coffee, water, and other goodies will be available at all times.
Yes. We’ll supply electricity and WiFi, but you will have to use your own computer. If this is preventing you from applying, please contact us and we’ll do our best to assist you.
Definitely. Our super nice and experienced mentors will be available during and prior to the event.
It will be an opportunity to meet great, like-minded people who also love making things. You’ll be able to improve your professional skills, social skills, and potentially your career. You are most likely to have fun and, in many cases, have a lifechanging experience.
The 8 Kinds of Projects You Meet at a Hackathon by Tess Rinearson
Survival Guide to Your First Hackathon by Michelle Sun
How to start your game development by Extra Credit
A Beginner's Guide To Making Your First Video Game from Kotaku by Zoe Quinn
Hackathon Toolbox Essential Tools and Practices by the Code Ship
Angular 2 Quickstart - Framework for developing complex web applications
Meteor Getting Started - Full-stack Javascript platform for web and mobile applications
Unity's tutorials page - popular framework for game development
Phaser - Create a shoot-em-up tutorial - open source HTML5 game framework
Awesome Projects Done in Two Days
Seed projects are skeleton projects in a certain framework that can be used for a quick start, for example:
Beit Hatfutshot Database front end (Angular 1.4, Open source)
Google's Firebase - Firebase gives frontend developers backend services, such as storage, authentication, DB, messaging, etc.
Google App Engine - Google's PaaS (platform as a service) is available for free for two months
Edison and Arduino boards, courtesy of Intel and XLN. Please let us know in advance if you'll be using them:
Intel Edison Compute Module - Miniature computer for makers, IoT and more.
Arduino & Genuino - Low-power, sensor filled development board
Application period has ended.
Videos from the preparation events will be available soon.
Shoot our sponsor team an email and we will get back to you with a detailed sponsorship plan.
contact@hackextend.com
Our mentors are group of engineers, product managers and designers from wide backgrounds. They will be available before and during the event for questions.
Our mentors are group of engineers, product managers and designers from wide backgrounds. They will be available before and during the event for questions.
Hackathons are awesome for so many reasons. They stimulate creativity and problem-solving, give participants a sense of accomplishment and worthiness, facilitate the aquisition of new technical skills, and beef up resumes. Unfortunately, many engineers don’t attend hackathons due to lack of self-confidence, exposure to these events, or because they may not have a team they can build with. This problem is even more common amongst groups that are under-represented in the high tech industry.
That's why we decided to create HackExtend - a hackathon for people who usually don’t hack. We want to create a different type of event; one that’s focused on creativity and community, not competition. It’s about learning, meeting new people, and building cool things together. We are working very hard to make it extremely diverse, and will prioritize diverse groups in acceptance.