Clear your calendar! Hack It Together kicks off on May 15th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Lander College for Women (227 West 60th Street) is our meeting spot for a day of fun, excitement, and coding - just for women. Come one, come all, and bring your friends for a chance to improve your programming skills, meet other women in tech, and have fun. This is going to be epic!

Schedule

Sunday, May 15

Note: this schedule is subject to change.

9:00 AM

Doors open, check-in for individuals without a team, breakfast is served

9:15 AM

Check-in for teams

9:45 AM

Opening remarks

10:00 AM

Hacking begins!

We will have mentors coming around to help out with your hacks. You can keep on hacking from now until submission time!

11:15 AM

Workshop: Intro to Machine Learning Using Scikit-Learn - workshop by Stephanie Tzeng, Data Scientist at AppNexus

1:00 PM

Lunch is served

7:00 PM

Hacking ends, dinner is served

7:10 PM - 7:25 PM

Tech Talk

Tech Talk by Sophia Huang, Product Manager at InVisionApp: “Using Product Management Skills to Choose your Career Path”

7:30 PM

Judging starts

8:30 PM

Closing remarks

8:45 PM

Winners are announced

9:00 PM

End of events

• Impact (30%)
  Does the project have real social impact? Can it change the world, or at least help someone in your community? Does the hack solve a real problem?
• Innovation (30%)
  Is the solution novel? Did the team solve their problem in a creative or never-seen-before way?
• Technical Achievement (30%)
  Did they solve a hard technical problem? Did they get a working demo completed within the allotted time?
• Scalability (10%)
  Is the project conducive to work at scale? Could the project succeed if it were to be built up for widespread use? Does the project have potential to succeed in the outside world?