2020 TOPIC
WHY FOOD? WHY NOW?
Tackling one of the most important global grand challenges of our time: FOOD. High school students unite during a 2-week design sprint with access to expert mentors, industry leaders, university researchers, and policy leaders. Hear why it’s about finding solutions through collaboration and bringing BIG, BOLD ideas to ensure #ZeroHunger, #ZeroFoodWaste, and #FoodEquity in Rhode Island and around the world!
2020 TOPIC: FOOD
Virtual this November!
Hack For Global Good returns for its 3rd consecutive year, connecting high school students to address the urgent challenge:
How does FOOD affect People, Production, and Policy?
Food Pathways
People
Production
Policy
We are excited to announce that H4GG 2020 is going virtual this November! Join us this November 2020 as Hack For Global Good, RI’s statewide social impact high school hackathon returns for its third consecutive year.
How does FOOD affect People, Production, and Policy?
Food Pathways
People
Production
Policy
2 Week
Virtual Event!
UN
Global
Challenge
Rhode Island
Statewide
Hackathon
WHAT
A social good hackathon is a gathering event for all doers committed to solving important problems in the world. The event is limited in time and scope, with the ultimate purpose to discover new and effective ways to overcome an existing hurdle.
WHO
Rhode Island high school students in grade 9-12. All expertise needed: creatives, writers, techies and athletes—all working together to identify a solution to the proposed topic. No coding or prior Hackathon experience required!
What is a Hackathon?
A hackathon is a time-bound competitive event where diverse individuals collaborate to create a new product or solve a critical problem.
Hackathon is a blend of two words: “hack” and “marathon” – taking apart a difficult problem and prototyping a solution in a specific period of time.
The goal of a community hackathon is to expand on the group’s collective imagination, network, access, and expertise in order to find new solutions to a real world challenge.
Goals
To launch a statewide initiative that exposes high school students to 21st Century skills during a real world scenario.
To develop learning modules that incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship exposing RI students to new ideas, opportunities, and an innovator’s mindset.
The goal is to come up with
the most creative and
imaginative idea to solve
a real-world problem.
Goals
The goal is to come up with the most creative and imaginative idea to solve a real-world problem.
To launch a statewide initiative that exposes high school students to 21st Century skills during a real world scenario.
To develop learning modules that incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship exposing RI students to new ideas, opportunities, and an innovator’s mindset.
LATEST NEWS & MEDIA
R.I. high school ‘hackathon’ generates bundle of energy
Providence Journal
EAST GREENWICH — Another piece of Silicon Valley culture has found its way to local high schools: the hackathon.
With their fingers tapping away on laptops and markers squeaking on windows or whiteboards, students from seven high schools worked away in Rocky Hill School classrooms for nine hours to try to solve some of humanity’s most vexing energy challenges.
First-ever ‘Hackathon’ held at Rocky Hill
WPRI
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WPRI) — It was a weekend full of energy for some local high school students.
On Friday and Saturday, students from seven local high schools gathered for the first-ever “Hackathon” at Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich.
More than 40 students put their minds together to try to solve some of the world’s energy problems.
Rocky Hill students take part in ‘hackathon’ challenge
THE INDEPENDENT
The Rocky Hill School recently made history, hosting the first-ever statewide “social good hackathon” for students across the Rhode Island to create their own unique ideas on energy policy.
Director of Innovation Meg Stowe said Monday that the hackathon was conceived by two juniors, Kingston’s Cortlandt Meyerson and East Greenwich’s Ben Pogacar.
Rocky Hill Country Day School is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and the producer of Hack for Global Good 2019. Your donation allows students from across Rhode Island to engage and experience learning opportunities not otherwise available to them.
