fabiochiu/medium-articles huggingface dataset:
Hack the Apocalypse — Nordstrom Hackathon gone virtual!
By: Dicky Leonardo
Tags: Technology, Remote, Hackathons, Nordstrom, Virtual

Nordstrom held its first virtual hackathon. How did they do and what did they learn?

At Nordstrom, we have been hosting hackathons since 2013. However, in the apocalyptic year of 2020, we had the opportunity to experiment with our hackathon format. We, the hackathon organizing team, would like to share how we did it and what we learned.

Organizing an internal hackathon can bring many benefits to your organization, some of the following that we’ve experienced at Nordstrom include:
Event Spotlight: Vaquita Hacks
By: Earth Hacks
Tags: Hackathons, Vaquitahacks2020, Vaquita, Earthhacks, Wildlife Conservation

The Vaquita, a small porpoise native to the Gulf of California, is one of the most critically endangered species in the world — there are currently estimated to be roughly 10 or less individuals remaining. One of the key drivers of Vaquita extinction is the fishing of the Totoaba, a fish prized for its swim bladder, often called “the cocaine of the sea”.

Andrea Crosta, executive director Earth League International — an organization focusing on stopping environmental and wildlife crime “by merging the worlds of conservation, intelligence, analysis, whistleblowing and media production”) — embarked on a mission to save the Vaquita, and were featured in the National Geographic documentary Sea of Shadows in the process.

Earth Hacks teamed up with The Conservation Project International (TCPI) and The Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute (CWTI) to host Vaquita Hacks, the first hackathon in the world dedicated to Vaquita conservation. The organizers worked closely with Earth League International to identify gaps in the solution space and create challenges to solve them, spanning three tracks:

Wildlife Crime Law Review

Science and Geographic Analytics

Public Engagement and Civic Action

Over 100 participants from 13 different countries attended Vaquita Hacks, which featured a keynote speech (and a lot of friendly slack messages) from Andrea, along with talks by

Dr. Meredith Gore, University of Maryland

Dr. Dan Morris, Microsoft

David Alvarez, Esri

Al James and Dr. Alastair Jamieson, Ometria

Matthew Andersen, USGS

Shamini Jayanathan, Foundry Chambers

Alexander Rhodes, Mischcon

Leading up to the hackathon, TCPI and Earth Hacks also hosted a screening of Sea of Shadows, featuring a Q&A session with former Sea Shepherd scientist Volcy Boilevin, who was also a mentor at the hackathon.

While the Science and Analytics projects are still under review, and the legal solutions are currently being drafted into a whitepaper to be shared with policymakers (!), you can check out the work from the Public Engagement and Civic Action teams on TCPI’s website soon.

You can also check out all the recordings from the hackathon here.

Take a look at some of the other press coverage the hackathon has gotten:

https://ali.fish/blog/worlds-first-hackathon-to-save-the-vaquita

https://edtechnology.co.uk/international/hackathon-bids-to-save-worlds-rarest-marine-mammal/

https://www.thestudentpocketguide.com/2020/10/trending/save-vaquita-hacks/
DO Hackathon Submission: Portfolio
Tags: Digital Ocean, Hackathons, Reactjs, Devto, Tailwindcss

Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash

What I built

I rebuilt my new portfolio in the past 2 or 3 weeks. When I read about the announcement of the #dohackathon, I told myself, f*ck it. I’ll submit this website, just for experience.

Category Submission:

Portfolio

App Link

https://studio.icvn.tech

Screenshots

Description

This website was built to showcase my past works as a freelance developer and to justify the rate to clients.

Link to Source Code

https://github.com/icvntechstudio/rebrand

Permissive License

MIT License

Background

My old portfolio came from a JAMSTACK template and was built on Gatsby and only had more or less 50 form inquiries hence the decision to rebuilt my portfolio.

How I built it

The website is hosted on DigitalOcean’s App Platform.

I built the website using ReactJS, TailwindCSS, DatoCMS, GraphQL, Airtable, Mailchimp, Hubspot, Zapier, Discord, Cloudflare and AWS Cloudfront. Wew.

Airtable is used as a database for the form submissions. I get notified on my discord when a user submits an inquiry on the contact form, which will then populate the tables on airtable. Then, an email will be sent from mailchimp that will get more information about what they need. Hubspot is used as a calendar and a more detailed form from the CTA at the header.

Aside from rebranding my old site, I built my new site to learn all the tech that I mentioned above, except for the Zapier, Mailchimp, Hubspot and Discord integrations.

Additional Resources/Info

Old site can be seen at https://icvntechstudio.co
Μεγάλη συμμετοχή και πρωτότυπες εφαρμογές στον 1ο Μαραθώνιο καινοτομίας για μία Ελλάδα Χωρίς Πλαστικά Μίας Χρήσης, 11–13 Δεκεμβρίου 2020.
By: Depy Douros
Tags: Hackathons, Innovation, Sup Free, Open Innovation, Crowdpolicy

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
ETHDenver 2021 Attendee, Judge, Speaker & Volunteer Applications Are Now Open
Tags: Hackathons, Ethdenver, Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Ethereum

ETHDenver 2021 Attendee, Judge, Speaker & Volunteer Applications Are Now Open

We’re looking forward to connecting with you virtually February 5–12 for ETHDenver & ColoradoJam Innovation Festival & BUIDLathon 2021! It’s the Year of the Spork Marmot, the Year We Fortify, and both attendee and speaker applications open today!

Like always, ETHDenver is free to attend and we offer merit-based speaking opportunities, but you must apply to attend, and/or to speak. Apply today so that you can join us for:

100k+ in Bounties, Prizes & Investments

Explore the Virtual Castle: Sponsor Shill Zone with Gamified Incentives, Art Gallery & Auction, Maker Space, Zen Zone, Live Concert Experience, Blockchain Arcade, DJ Livestream Sets, Special Game Swag & More

Nightly Melees in the Virtual ETHDenver World & Minecraft Castle

Play Games on Livestream with Colorado Officials, Vitalik Buterin & Others

Panels & Talks by Industry Luminaries, Top Projects & Community Contributors

Real Opportunities to Connect with Other BUIDLers & VIPs

Opportunities to Connect with Other BUIDLers & VIPs A Live Pitch Competition, Shark Tank-Style

Group Mentorship Opportunities

And So Much More!

Get ready to #WieldYourSporks and apply to attend, judge, speak, or volunteer today!
Is swagbucks hack tool really working?
Tags: Swagbucks Review, Swagbucks, Hackathons, Code, Hacking

That’s answer is YES.

welcome to our page. Here we will post the orginal data and information about something.

Download the link of the swagbucks hack tool available. Just scroll down.

By this tool, users can generate generate unlimited points within 2 hours. Here, I showed my experience with this tool.

Pros of this tool:- East to use, free to use, no virus, simple and secure.

The cons of this tool:- User need to complete the survey to download this tool.

If you also got the points once you tried this tool. Just share your experience here.

Download link of the Swagbucks hack tool:- https://freehack.tools/product/swagbucks-free-gift-card/

Youtube Preview:- https://youtu.be/yzSwttpH10Q

Enjoy your day. Happy hack.
TiDB Hackathon 2020 is Now On
Tags: Tidb, Hackathons, Database, Programming

TiDB Hackathon 2020 was officially launched! This is the most innovative technical challenge and one of the most popular events in the TiDB community!

At TiDB Hackathon 2020, developers across the world will engage, collaborate, and innovate together to work on solutions to improve the productivity and efficiency of TiDB and its ecosystem projects, including TiKV and Chaos Mesh®️.

The theme of Hackathon this year is [∞], by which we expect participants to innovate, to challenge, and to unlock the infinite power of TiDB.

In addition to bountiful prizes (The first place winning team will get $15,000), excellent projects have opportunities to join the TiDB Incubator program, where the projects will be properly guided and supported to become actual community projects!

The sign-up is open till Jan 10! Bring your intelligence and innovation to create unlimited possibilities for TiDB!
Prospa Hackathon 2020
Tags: Hackathons, Engineering, Customer Obsession, Hackaday, Ideas

We actually started to plan for a Hackathon much earlier in the year 2020, but due to COVID :( , we had to pause for a while till things seemed close to normal once again. This is why we were wearing winter Hackathon t-shirts in summer ha ha!

Following are the Hackathon t-shirts, and some awesome Engineers flaunting it:

The Hackathon committee did a great job deciding the theme, dates, food, program run sheet, emails and printing the merchandise like digital posters, t-shirts, stickers etc.

The event was scheduled for 2 days, 15th & 16th of October 2020 and the theme was, “Customer Obsessed”, based on one of the core Prospa values. To be clear here, it was consciously decided that a “Customer” could be anyone, not just a small business customer of the company. So even if you wanted to create a solution for another team, you could, because in this case they become your customers :)

A couple of weeks before the event, people were asked to submit their ideas and the Hackathon Confluence page was flooded. Developers were excited to decide which team they wanted to be in. To be honest, I couldn’t decide on just one, I wanted to work on all! In the end 14 ideas or teams were finalised.
Microsoft Hybrid Productivity Digital Hackathon
Tags: Remote Working, Hackathons, Microsoft, Productivity Apps, Microsoft Teams

As remote work continues to grow in both popularity and necessity in the modern workplace, businesses of all sizes are searching for new and innovative ways to engage their hybrid teams.

With this growing need, Microsoft Middle East took charge by sponsoring another BeMyApp hackathon that would challenge participants to develop app concepts that would transform productivity in hybrid work environments using Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Teams App Template, PowerApps and Graph API.

Nearly 400 uniquely registered participants took part, collaborating with Microsoft mentors, attending live webinars and tackling one of the following proposed challenges;

Opening Ceremony

Effective Internal Communications

Crisis Management including Hybrid Work Facilities Management

Customized Add-Ons for Microsoft Teams Meetings & Live Events

Exceptionally creative projects were submitted on the BeMyApp platform, specially customised for the Hackathon submissions. A special congratulations to the following teams who took home the top prizes:

24 projects submitted on the Hackathon Platform

1st Place: Laterbot represented by Pavel Kaminsky, Julie Kaminsky

“I’ll help you and your team to be productive by handling all the distractions for you, so you can focus on what’s really important.”

2nd Place: TakeNotes.ai created by Saugaat Allabadi, Jacob Blankenship

“Make sure your conversations are translated, turned into actions quickly, efficiently and on the fly.”

3rd Place: Event Management Solutions imagined by Rahber Ashraf, Humza Mahmood

“A comprehensive solution to manage internal and external events using Microsoft Teams offering registration portal, templates and reporting.”

Thanks to our determined and resourceful participants, prototypes using Microsoft technologies will make remote work, where in-office and remote teams collaborate seamlessly with one another, smoother than ever!

Are you a participant looking to strengthen your professional skills? Check out our upcoming events and join us: https://www.bemyapp.com/events/

Contact us here if you would like to host your next event with us: https://www.bemyapp.com/
JunctionX Seoul Hackathon 2020
By: Ho Duc Hieu
Tags: Hackathon, 2020, Junctionxseoul, Responsible Ai

In this competition, there are 4 tracks from Microsoft, NaverZ, Rakuten Rapid

API, SI Analytics. Our team decided to participate in the Microsoft track. Our team also has 6 members consists of 4 developers and 2 designers. I worked mainly as a backend developer to develop the backend system of our project and implement Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.

What is the Microsoft track?

Develop for Collaboration and Remote Productivity

Build a website or mobile app for collaboration and remote productivity that can be applied to society and business that will make the world more connected together, and more inclusive place to work in. In this challenge, the requirement to show at least 1 usage of the technologies used here in Microsoft Azure and to elaborate your idea with responsible AI.

What is our idea?

Background and Problem Definition:

Since the outbreak COVID-19 pandemic, our work environment shifted closer and closer to online. With technology, we have still maintained a level of productivity and settled into video conferencing platforms for remote work. While video conferencing ensures safety and productivity, we are still facing problems in creating an inclusive society.

Someone you may know cannot freely express themselves in a video conference just because they are incapable of hearing, seeing, or speaking in another language.

What do we need?

We need a bridge that allows those with disabilities to voice like everyone else and a bridge that connects thoughts regardless of language barriers and where they come from.

Proposal: We would like to share with the world a service that allows everyone to equally participate in video conferencing sessions, thus creating an inclusive society.

The Solution

With WECO, our video conferencing software, everyone’s voice can be bridged, heard, and echoed.

Everything we talk about in video conference is updated in real-time with a translatable and exportable transcript, and anyone can send their message in “voice to text” or “text to voice” form and easily interact with other users.

We are delivering inclusiveness to those who are incapable of speaking, reading, or understanding in a video conferencing session.

Technologies

WECO handles the features mentioned above with Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service. In order to transcribe speech accurately from users into text, WECO implemented Speech to Text API and deployed this service on the Azure portal. On the other hand, in order to convert text to natural sounding voices in the transcript, we used Text to Speech API. Lastly, Speech Translation API is used to implement the chat and transcript translation, providing a fair and equal opportunity for everyone in the world to communicate.

Key benefits
PossAbility Acceleration สู่นวัตกรรมที่เป็นไปได้ด้วยศักยภาพชาว K
By: Kris B
Tags: Hackathons, Innovation, Backstage, Prototype, Design Thinking

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
EU: Africa - The Post Crisis Journey Hackathon
By: Ibrahim Bashir
Tags: Hackathon, Africa, Innovation, Startup

PHOTO CREDIT: GARAGE48

I had an amazing 72 hours last weekend, where I participated as a mentor at the EUAfrica Hackathon organised by Garage48. I engaged with 6 startups through one-on-one sessions all through the weekend.

I am excited to share that one of the teams I mentored made it to the top 10 selected finalists from the 315 teams that participated. Abiodun Ogunyemi, Ph.D and his team did a great job and what is more impressive is they are in for the long-haul with their project TalkamNaija — a citizen to government platform aimed at bridging the gap among stakeholders while driving for better accountability and participation in governance in Nigeria.

Unfortunately, not all teams made it to the top 10. In fact there was a team I mentored that could not make a demo due to internal issues. This is very normal in projects and I salute the team lead for staying the course and still participating till the end despite the setbacks. He is a real winner.

The hackathon has again revealed to the world the growing talent in Africa and why the continent is the now and the future. The level of growth in tech skills is very impressive and with the right guidance the next decade, Africans will be a the top of tech globally.

I am honoured to have participated and thank the organisers — Garage48 for inviting me. We learn everyday and I have learnt a lot from the hackathon. a truly impressive December weekend.
Hack4OpenGLAM
By: Susanna Ånäs
Tags: Finland, Openglam, Hackathons, Creative Commons

The Dashboard displays all projects, collections and participants

Avoin GLAM — The Finnish Open GLAM working group has organized the Hack4FI Open GLAM hackathons since 2015. This year, in March, meals had been ordered and the staff of the Finnish National Gallery were prepared for a long weekend when the precautionary measures to limit the Coronavirus pandemic forced to cancel the event.

Together with the Creative Commons Open GLAM platform and backed by Wikimedia Finland, Avoin GLAM decided to propose the hackathon for the Creative Commons Global Summit, which had also been postponed and transformed into a virtual event. The result was the inauguration of a new online GLAM hackathon, Hack4OpenGLAM.

The event spanned over five days 19–23 October, starting one day before the CC Summit with a workshop program, running parallel with the program as an online hacking space and culminating in a Final Gala after the Summit days.

102 participants signed up to the event, with altogether 32 workshop and kickoff session presenters who spoke 32 languages including R, SQL, Python and Java. A clear majority identified as open culture advocates, and a third as wikimedians as well as GLAM professionals.

Kickoff events

Students of the H2020 European Training Network POEM facilitated the two kickoff sessions that introduced the thematics of GLAM hackathons. What is a GLAM hackathon? lead by Franziska Mucha brought together the different views and experiences of creative hackathons by Ilias Kyriazis from Coding da Vinci, Ivonne Kristiani from Retas Budaya Indonesia and Tuomas Nolvi from Hack4FI.
I did a Design Hackathon. Here are my tips for other newbies
By: Hayley Smith
Tags: UX Design, Hackathons, Ux Bootcamp, UX, Ux Newbie

UX Result’s tweet from a challenge winner

Last weekend I did a hackathon with a few friends from my Flatiron design bootcamp. Our school emails out events and this one through UX result caught our attention. If you’re not familiar with hackathons they are basically events where you are working in teams to solve some sort of prompted problem over a given period of time. They can be coding hackathons, design hackathons, etc.

This was the first time for everyone on my team. There are a few things I wish I would’ve known going in.

1. Read all of the info

All of the challenges, Q&As, submission info, etc. Read it all and learn it all. You do not want any surprises you could have better prepared for while you are working under pressure.

2. Follow a process

Even if time is short, you should still follow some sort of framework to get the end result. In this instance, we still needed to utilize design thinking and empathize with our users to come up with solutions that can be tested and improved.

Judges also are looking for this in presentations. A team that had a clear process and executed on their goals will be in a much better position than one that threw a lot together.

3. Choose teams wisely

You will be working under pressure. Choose people that you get along with and can work with. It’s a waste of everyone’s time if you spend any of it arguing or working through cooperation issues Luckily my team was fantastic and we were able to split up the work, use our strengths, and come up with something we are proud of.

4. Schedule ahead of time as much as you can

This is kind of going back to the tip about following a process. We were not expecting to conduct usability tests the day-of (also read the Q&A) so we had to reach out last-minute to some friends. We lucked out because we knew a lot of people that fit our persona and didn’t have weekend plans. In the future, I would have planned this much more in advance.

5. Take breaks

Our only breaks from 10:00 AM-8:15 PM were 15 minutes at lunch and five minutes prior to recording our presentation. We made the decision to power through, but in hindsight, more breaks would have been nice. I’m a fan of the two-minute dance break to get active and refresh blood flow roughly every hour. Take more frequent breaks if you can, it’ll only help your product and keep the ideas flowing.
EAST AFRICA ANTI-CORRUPTION BLOCKCHAIN HACKATHON
By: Kotani Labs
Tags: Blockchain, Hackathons, Corruption

The East Africa Anti-Corruption Blockchain Hackathon hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) came to an end on the 9th of December 2020 following an 8-week period of hacking. The completion was set appropriately, ending during the Global Anti-Corruption week. Kotani Labs was a proud partner of this one-of-a-kind event which attracted 13 solutions by talented teams, and a total of 143 participants.

The team that emerged top at the virtual event was Team Planet Shakers whose solution is a platform on the Celo Blockchain that allows for the safe filing of complaints by whistleblowers while protecting their identity. The runners-up were Team Uptech, who also focused on whistleblower protection, building their solution on the Hyperledger platform. The second runners-up were Team Sentinel, whose solution is a financial platform on the Celo Blockchain for secure remittances and transfer of assets involving whistleblowers to ensure financial security.

The award ceremony took place on the 9th of December, 2020 at Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club. It was graced by his Excellency the governor of Kiambu County, Dr. James Nyoro, among other dignitaries.

Event graced by his Excellency the Governor of Kiambu County and other dignitaries

Dr. James Nyoro, Governor of Kiambu County

Dr. Amado Phillip The UNODC ROEA Representative

Roy Sasaka CEO, National Youth Council

Dr. Felix Macharia, CEO of Kotani Pay, one of the organizers of the hackathon.

At Kotani Labs, we believe in exploring how Blockchain technology can be used as a force of good with positive social impact in Africa. Beyond the hackathon, alongside our partners such as the UNODC, we continue to seek out and support solutions that are aligned with this mission.

With the increasing number of Blockchain startups on the continent, we believe that is our shared responsibility having seen the power and potential of the Blockchain to change lives, to change the negative narrative that Blockchain is all about crypto. This narrative has been spun especially on our continent following the prevalent crypto scams.

It is especially encouraging to see developments in both the traditional finance and public sectors with PayPal and Africa’s Chipper Cash supporting the purchase of BTC on their platform, and the Central Bank Digital currencies being launched by China and in Europe.

Having been a part of such an elevating experience at the hackathon, we at Kotani Pay keep working towards making a difference on our continent by being a voice against corruption, and offering financial inclusion to uplift the millions on our continent who have been left out. We stand against corruption, and we have your best interest at heart.
What to expect when your Hack…athoning :)
By: Seth Starr
Tags: Bootcamp, Hackathons, Software Development, Flatiron School, Hacking

Let’s get to Hacking!!! :)

Joining a Hackathon can be a pretty daunting undertaking especially when it’s your first time doing one. Here’s a few tips to help walk you through getting started:

Don’t overthink it — I spent hours figuring out which Hackathon to bite the proverbial bullet on on. Experience working with other developers is very valuable especially when you recently graduated from a bootcamp. Team or no team? — I’d definitely suggest either putting a team together or try and join a team not to do a repeat of number 1 but working with others is very important and it’s good practice for white boarding challenges as well as technical interviews. You know what you know —Everybody brings their own bit of knowledge to a team during a hackathon. Me as a fresh out of bootcamp grad didn’t feel like I had much to contribute to the team(that was not the case lol). This is a great opportunity to practice skills you’ve developed as well as new ones. Have fun!!! — Coding should always be done with a smile on your face so have a good time when your hacking away lol.

Here are a few sites to visit when your looking into joining a hackathon:

There are many more not mentioned above but hope this at least gets anybody started on their first go around!!!
Grammarly — Spell Checker using JavaScript
By: Bhavesh Sharma
Tags: Grammarly, Hackathons, JavaScript

The AddSkill community hosted a Hackathon based on Javascript. The objective was to create a Grammarly.

The Problem statement is as Follows:-

On upload of a file, read the file content and display it in the text area.

2. Process the text content and carry out a spell check for every word in the file content.

3. For every word where there’s a spell error, highlight(or underline ) the word .

4. On right click of this highlighted word, provide a custom menu which has suggestions of correct word in it. On click of any suggestion, the error word should be replaced by a correct one.

5. Host your project on Heroku

Key Learnings from Hackathon:-

Since the Hackathon was completely based on JavaScript. I was able to meet most of the requirements in given amount of time. I had faced quite a few challenges in midway but was able to make it clear with the help of mentors and instructors. It was a great learning process as I learned many new things in very less amount of time. Looking forward for many more Hackathons in near future.
AddSkill Hackathon Experience
Tags: Experience, Hackathons

Last week I attended a hackathon organized by AddSkill which was focused on frontend development. The objective was to create a Grammarly clone and host it on Heroku.

Approach

Since most of the requirements for this project was heavily relied on JavaScript, I tried to complete the html and CSS part quickly.

As for JavaScript, I tried to use some of the advanced concept that was taught at AddSkill. I used built-in events and created custom events for handling user interaction and used async/await and built-in Promise function to make API calls and improve applications performance.

The trickiest part of the requirements was to create a highlighted dropdown menu for every error in the file. Using custom html elements for every errors seemed to be the best choice. Defining a custom element and using it made the code cleaner.

Conclusion

I was able to build the web application meeting all the requirements within seven hours. I probably learnt more in seven hours of the hackathon than I would have in days of self study.

Special thanks to the whole team of AddSkill for organizing this hackathon and helping every single participant throughout this process.
PackaDrone
Tags: Hackathons

PackaDrone

As of January 2020, over 1.7 million people lose their packages every day in the US. Imagine waiting for something you wanted for over 2 weeks, and it gets damaged or stolen. We’re here to change that. PackaDrone is a revolutionizing company that lets you get your packages delivered using a drone. Now what are the benefits of getting your packages delivered by a drone? Well, there’s a few that you might have not thought of. First of all the security is horrible right now! I mean your packages just get stolen and people just give up on finding it. Using our advanced security systems, you can count on getting your package back. Our drones have AI facial recognition systems so the drones get delivered to the right person. You can put multiple faces so the drone can allow your family, friends or more to open it. Our blockchain network allows us to keep your receipts and information safe without it being stolen. Second, most drone deliveries right now are super unreliable. The drones crash, the packages fall, and the drones lose battery quickly. Our drones fix all of those issues, so you can rely on us. Third, we are using AI to also ensure your packages get delivered to the right place. PackaDrone also utilizes biometrics to scan your face when you pick your object up to ensure that it’s you. It is also very easy to track packages with the app and the website using a Google Maps API. This is PackaDrone.
AddSkill Hackathon Experiences
By: Lavi Kushwaha
Tags: Hackathon, HTML, Practice, JavaScript

This hackathon was organised by AddSkill team it was on web development using javascript, HTML, CSS.

Task 1 :- Design a front-end page where we can upload a text file and when we clicked on upload button it show all content in a given text area.

Approach :- Think when you never worked on a tech and suddenly you have to. Then always be think positive and open your ide and start doing what ever is coming on your mind this way automatically you will get the idea and your mind also think about the approach at end of you will be able to solve that problem. Hackathon is the best way to learn more because you don’t know the what’s going to happen it’s unpredictable. You will learn a lot and that will make you exciting.

Task 2 :- This was the very exciting where we have mark all wrong word with a highlighter and when you right click on that word that will show you drop-down that give you all correct suggestions for the wrong word when you click on suggested word that will replace the wrong word with the same.

“Now days every one have the theoretical knowledge of the all domain but when you face a real life issue and you are able to solve that problem that mean’s you are on the right track.”

Task 3 :- Deploy it on heroku.

Approach :- I was so excited for this challenge when you are a new learner and you worked on real-life issues .

(a) :- I learned async-await from (moodle) to fetch data and i did practical use of the concept how fetch is working and the role of async-await using these concept i get the data from textgears (API).

(b) :- After that second issue was how to process data when you are able to fetch your all data from (API). I take lot of help from the moodle for this it was so help full for me.

(c) :- This is the last step where i was stuck how to make drop-down when user will right click on words and how i will replace the word with the selected suggestion but from slack the by the help of mentor i was able to crack that it was very interesting to update innerHtml according to new suggestions.

(d) :- Finally task was completed and i deploy the code on heroku i was deploying first time it is friendly.

I learn a lot from this hackathon the experience was so exciting me it was excellent learning “Thank you team AddSkill”.

https://github.com/ravi3011/addskils

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-kushwaha-07584a144/
AddSkill Hackathon Learning and Experiences
By: Swarnika Gupta
Tags: Frontend Development, Grammarly, Hackathons

This is about JS HACKATHON organized by ADDSKILL where we needed to build a model like Grammarly (frontend).

Challenges faced in the tech part :

We made the best use of class notes (moodle) for kickstarting and setting up the base of the project. For someone new to JavaScript, making sense of await-async vs promises and deciding which one to use can be a challenge. Key learning, “await” is always for a single Promise. And figured out a concept that we use await to wait for the “fetch” to return a resolved promise. Overcoming this then came another challenge of processing the response body and using it to transform the innerhtml. Template literals sounded a lot easy when we first learned it but using backtick literally gave us a headburst when actually applying it. From positioning a div on the right click of bad words to applying right css, grabbing every hint of our guides to asking answers on slack when we got stuck; the experience was just unmatchable.

Challenges faced in the non-tech part :

It’s best to carry a positive attitude. Listen and be open to other people’s ideas and remember that at the end of the day, it’s just a hackathon. The beauty of hackathons is that you can never know what’s going to happen. The unpredictability makes it exciting. You make the most of hackathons when you let it unfold. There is hardly a way you can learn more in a day than by participating in a hackathon.

It was an excellent learning opportunity for us. Thank you team AddSkill. Looking forward for more such events.
My first Hackathon
By: Abhinav Jain
Tags: Hackathons, JavaScript, Grammarly, Front End Development, Web App Development

I am elated to share that I came in second place in the JavaScript hackathon organized by Addskill.

It was an amazing experience working on our problem statement which was to create our own version of “Grammarly” — a web app that checks the grammar of an input file and suggests all the possible spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. errors.

I personally am new to web development so taking part in this hackathon helped me implement and more importantly Understand how some core concepts of JavaScript like Dom, browser events, API call’s etc. work.

I encountered multiple problems throughout the hackathon.

Setting up the base of the project was pretty straight forward. Take an input file make an API call and store the errors as an object.

Now came a challenge as to how I can highlight a particular element in red and not the entire thing.

That’s where I made use of Dom and enclosed all the words that are wrong in a span, and gave it an id and a class which helped transform those specific elements to red.

Now came the biggest challenge — How do I create an event listener for all these errors? Can’t be hard coded as the number of errors is non-deterministic. To deal with this, I made an event listener for the entire window; wherein right clicking on any HTML element will give me its id. BUT how do I do that, after brainstorming for a long long time, it clicked

that i can use event.target.id to get the id of the element I right clicked on. Now that I have the id of that element it’s a piece of cake.

All I had to do now was to create a custom context menu check for the suggestions in my error object for that particular element, add them to this context menu, display this custom context menu and on selecting a specific correction; its id (again using- event.currentTargetid) can be used to replace the content of that error. After this other small additions were simply trivial.

This was a very fun and challenging day for me. Seeing unexpected results in your code is simply amazing isn’t it? But at the end of the day its all about learning more and more.

Thank you team AddSkill, looking forward to such amazing events in the future.
Hack the Holidays is Here! Join the Biggest Hackathon of the Season
By: Blockchain Center Official
Tags: Blockchain, Hackathons, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

The Blockchain Center, along with the world’s leading blockchain companies and experts, will host the first annual Hack the Holidays event this December 18–20. Highly motivated developers will team up and compete in the areas of NFT/Art, Finance (CeFi/DeFi) & Forking while building on the most cutting-edge blockchain frameworks.

Current partners include Divi, SALT, Zap Protocol, Fractal Technology & ForkedBlock. Media and community supporters currently include Brave New Coin, Bitcoin Bay, Polis, Caribbean Blockchain Alliance, Gokhshtein Media & Cryptos.

Judges include industry leaders such as Bitcoin & Blockchain Center founder Nick Spanos and Block.one co-founder Brock Pierce.

“It’s amazing what can happen when you bring the best and brightest together, present them with problems, and allow them to compete,” said Nick Spanos. “Events like Hack the Holidays are what will lead to the ‘killer Dapp’ and I can’t wait to see what the talented minds of this event have in store for us.”

Blockchain Center hackathons create highly valued opportunities for networks of investors, companies, communities, sponsors, and developers.

No matter your level of understanding, the live-streamed three-day event will feature talks, interviews, and workshops in addition to the hackathon competition. No matter your expertise or experience in this space, there will be content available for you.

The official event schedule will soon be announced.

Prizes for winning development teams are as follows:

1st- $1,000

2nd- $500

3rd- $250

Top 3 Runner-ups:

Ledger Nano S

All developers, artists, and audience members for the hackathon should register with the following link.

REGISTER HERE:https://form.typeform.com/to/KXeTIiGt
MIT Hackathon
By: Zoe Müller
Tags: Health, Covid 19, Hackathons, MIT

Why I wanted to participate

During the lockdown I was attending webinars, trying to educate myself more about current events, and at the same time keeping myself occupied to stay positive. However, this was not enough and I didn’t feel like I was able to change anything. I did some research and found the hackathon organised by MIT, which is one of the most elite schools in the USA. I saw that they had previously done a COVID-19 hackathon in April. This was the second one, which was more focused on mental health after the pandemic and very applicable to me and the people in my surroundings.

I am very passionate about this topic and I also needed motivation to overcome my own concerns about life after this crisis. I quickly realised that this was a project for me and I could actually be part of a solution, which would have a serious impact on society.
Завершение MoneyDance 2020
Tags: Blockchain, Hackathons, Moneydance, Cryptocurrency, Avalanche

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
Results of the Blockchain Hackathon by Distributed Lab and Jax.Network
Tags: Blockchain, Hackathons, Jaxnetwork, Jaxnetworkevents

On Sunday, the final of the Eighth Blockchain Hackathon with a total prize pool of $14,700, was hosted by Distributed Lab and Jax.Network. The top five teams from across the country received awards from the organizers and additional prizes from sponsors.

The hackathon lasted two days at The Space Coworking in Kyiv. Teams selected tasks from the list provided several days before the event. Each team consisted of a maximum of 6 people, with no restrictions on age and level of knowledge in the blockchain. Participants were provided with lunches, snacks, drinks, and entertainment during the breaks. Some teams stayed in the coworking space all night without interruption to work on their prototypes.

For two days, the Jax.Network team was present at the location as mentors and judges. On Sunday at 18:00, the projects’ pitching began, during which each team presented a demo of their prototype, and the jury checked the code and asked clarifying questions.

1st place and $3000 were awarded to the “Дичь’” team. The guys worked on a digital transfer system prototype, ensuring data confidentiality and privacy of the data recipient. Besides this, the team also took prizes from sponsors QPDigital and VELAS Official.

2nd place and $1500 was awarded to the “TT” team, which implemented the idea of ​​tokenizing the ERC-721 (DeFi) token. They also received additional prizes from QPDigital and MadFish.Solutions.

3rd place and $900 was awarded to the “ElephantsLab” team. They worked on a task from Jax.Network to create a blockchain explorer. Jax.Network’s CTO Taras Emelyanenko also presented the team with a trip to Dubai for the Future Blockchain Summit.

4th place and $600 were divided between the teams “Nikolay” (encryption of video, photo, and audio files) and “BTCU.dev,” which worked on tokenization of electricity and CO2 emissions. They later also received an additional prize from DTEK.

Hackathon partners noted team “A” (the guys received prizes from QPDigital, MadFish.Solutions, QBEIN), two teams that worked on tasks from VELAS Official, teams “Cero,” “Dr. Pomogaev” (a system for storing and managing medical data on TokenD) and “Hackathon Killers.”

For us, the hackathon had become an excellent opportunity to meet young developers, introduce our project to the Ukrainian community, and give talented people a chance to visit one of the largest blockchain exhibitions of this year. Follow our news.
FusionFabric.cloud: October Newsletter
By: Liuqing Yang
Tags: Developer, Hackathons, API

October has been an exciting month and we have a lot to share with you: from our brand new data-focused offering and new apps in our store to an update on our global hackathon which we invite you to join so we can redefine finance for good together.

Fusion Data Cloud: data ecosystem + actionable insights + connected experiences

We have just launched Fusion Data Cloud which enables fintechs to collaborate with and promote new, innovative solutions to thousands of Finastra customers, speeds time to market and provides major scale when compared to going solo.

Two new applications are now available in our store

Floatbot : Finbot for RetailFinbot — Floatbot is a SaaS-based conversational AI platform that helps banks and Fintechs to automate customer support, increase customer experience and digital sales. Its DIY “No Code” platform makes it possible to build hybrid bots using advance workflow-builder and conversational AI tools.

AIO — Verified Financial Identity — AIO is driving trust between businesses, enabling customers to establish and own their verified financial identity, and to share it securely with financial institutions.

Finastra APIs

We invite you to check our latest API-related updates.

REGISTER to Hack To The Future: already 3,400+ participants from 70+ countries

Be a part of what we hope will be the most impactful fintech hackathon ever, with #HackToTheFuture 2020! Build your app with Finastra APIs to accelerate transformation, because we’re #hackingforgood!

We are delighted to generate so much enthusiasm and drive such a tremendous level of participation just under two weeks following our official launch.

Did you know that 40+ partners and sponsors joined us to offer collectively over $90,000 in prizes?

You have until December 20th to submit your apps and help us to redefine finance for good! Come and register here.

If you have questions or need help, contact our dedicated team on the Community Q&A page.

Many thanks!

FusionFabric.cloud Team
籌辦「M+線上黑客松」 — — 當中的挑戰、亮點和珍貴收穫
By: Mary Lo
Tags: Museums, Digital, Hackathons, Musetech, 中文

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
Belajar 16 Istilah Penting untuk Memulai Startup-mu dari Drama Korea
By: Anggo Frizman
Tags: Mvp Development, Hackathons, Burn Rate, Start Up, Fff

“When you build something for others, it’s not about you, it’s about them, you just need to make it a bit better”
The ultimate FIZZBUZZ Challenge
Tags: Hackathons, Python, AI, Data Science, Python3

I don’t remember the company name but one among the hundreds out there whose technical test I attempted had this different kind of question

the FIZZ BUZZ challenge

the question only stated,

you have to print the following series in whichever programming language you like

this was during 2015 when I was in my degree 2nd year

knowing nothing about these things except music and dance

the series was like -

1

2

FIZZ

4

BUZZ

FIZZ

7

8

FIZZ

BUZZ

11

FIZZ

13

14

FIZZBUZZ

16

17

FIZZ

19

BUZZ

any newbie would just go blank with this series

the only thing I was good at was thinking logically

which gave me a path — there’s something wrong with numbers divisible with

3 and 5

such that numbers divisible with 3 are FIZZ

numbers divisible with 5 are BUZZ

but what about FIZZBUZZ

that must be both 3*5 or 5*3

that’s what was my answer

but the real challenge was to code

which language to choose?

let’s choose C

……………..

let’s choose JAVA

……………..

let’s not waste time for choosing the languages,

we’ll directly code in python

the code began with a for loop with a range and my hands wrote flawlessly

# A for loop to take a range of number and process them one by one

for i in range(1,21):

# the first condition to check if the number is divisible by 3*5 or 5*3 i.e. 15

if(i%15 == 0):

# if yes ? print FIZZBUZZ

print(“FIZZBUZZ”)

# the second condition was to check if the number is divisible by 3

elif(i%3 == 0):

# if yes? print FIZZ

print(“FIZZ”)

# the third condition was to check if the number is divisible by 5

elif(i%5 == 0):

# if yes? print BUZZ

print(“BUZZ”)

# if none of the above conditions are passing, print the number itself

else:

print(i)

so, that code worked for me and I was successful in generating the FIZZBUZZ series within the given time

if you like this article,

don’t forget to give a like

also, in case you want me to write about something,

please suggest it in the comment box

Thank You !!!