February
20-22
2024 HACKATHON
PRODUCED BY
ROCKY HILL
COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
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2024 Topic: Hack the Horizon
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 aspires to make the world’s cities and communities safe, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. 70 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in cities by 2050. This year, students in grades PreK through 12 will collaborate to develop innovative solutions to the biggest problems facing our cities and towns – the lack of safe and affordable housing, economic inequalities, pollution, outdated systems of transportation, inadequate green space, and more.
Who?
In 2024, Hack for Global Good welcomes students from around Rhode Island to work together to develop innovative solutions related to UN Global Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. No prior Hackathon experience required.
Where?
Students will hack at Rocky Hill Country Day School in East Greenwich on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon, and Thursday morning. On Thursday afternoon, students will travel to District Hall in Providence to pitch their innovations to a panel of esteemed judges.
Why?
Participation in the Hack for Global Good offers students the opportunity to collaborate, ideate, problem solve, and network all while contributing innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. As one of the Hack For Global Co-Chairs said, “Changing the world is hard, but a hard thing will become an impossible thing without a start. The Hack for Global Good can be your starting point.” Participating in the H4GG allows YOU to be a change agent. Join us!
The Pitch
Teams have just 5 minutes to present and share on stage using PowerPoint, video, posters, art, music, a physical prototype, a working model, 3D rendering, or any other method to explain their idea/solution.
Teams must be ready to clearly articulate the following before a panel of industry Judges:
1. The Problem
2. The Solution
3. The Impact
3 Winning Categories
Moonshot Idea
The “Moonshot Idea” award is given to the team with the most audacious and groundbreaking idea, impacting RI and the world (does not have to be possible in the immediate present). This teams shoots for the moon!
Global Impact
The “Global Impact” award is given to the team that presents a bold and broad solution, capable of impacting the most amount of people on planet earth.
Best Pitch
The “Best Pitch” award goes to the team that best articulates the problem, identifies a clear solution, and delivers a powerful presentation or “pitch” to the Judges.
The Agenda
Tuesday, February 20
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Kickoff Event with Keynote Speaker, Cutler Whitely
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Groups Hack (Focus Areas: Define and Ideate)
Wednesday, February 21
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Introduce Mentors
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Teams Hack / Mentors Support (Focus Areas: Prototype)
Thursday, February 22
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
"Telling the Story of Your Innovation" with Annette Tonti
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Pitching Scrub Session with RI Hub
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Work on Pitches
11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Lunch & Travel to Providence
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Pitch Competition (District Hall/CIC Building, Providence)
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Venture Café Sustainability Gathering
Winning Teams Present
The world’s population is constantly increasing. To accommodate everyone,
we need to build modern, sustainable cities. For all of us to survive and prosper,
we need new, intelligent urban planning that creates safe, affordable
and resilient cities with green and culturally inspiring living conditions.
– Project Everyone
Hack Student Leaders
Cole Brown
Event Director
Cole Brown
Event Director
Carter Holubesko
US Co-Chair
Koray Kokturk
US Co-Chair
Alex Lehouiller
MS Co-Chair
Lilly Liebermensch
MS Co-Chair
Jeremi Morrison
MS Co-Chair
Hadley Wheeler
MS Co-Chair
Imanol Acevedo
LS Co-Chair
Leslie Monterosso
LS Co-Chair
Elliot Osbrey
LS Co-Chair
Delilah Tully
LS Co-Chair
Biagio DiCenso
Marketing Co-Chair
Ariana Hernandez
Marketing Co-Chair
Luke Lehouiller
Marketing Co-Chair
Elina Sun
Marketing Co-Chair
Aber He
UX Co-Chair
Sea Liu
UX Co-Chair
Katie O’Neil
Outreach Chair
Katie O’Neil
Outreach Chair
Speakers
Cutler Whitely
Keynote Speaker
on 2/20/24
Founder & CEO of Looie
Cutler is a recent Brown University Biotechnology (ScM) graduate and published scientist who previously earned a BS in CMGB (cell/molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry) along with a minor in psychology from Drexel University in 2018. In addition to furthering the scientific community as a published bench and clinical researcher for Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Jefferson Health, Drexel University College of Medicine, and the Drexel University Department of Chemistry, Cutler has partnered with several institutions and organizations within the greater Philadelphia area – including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The Salvation Army, and MANNA to support the health and well-being of his local community.
From 2012-2014, Cutler competed as a sponsored, professional athlete on the World Snowboard Tour. Following his international snowboarding career, Cutler attended Delaware County Community College and eventually Drexel University. As an undergraduate, Cutler assisted with the development of Phi Delta Epsilon (PhiDE) – Drexel University’s undergraduate medical fraternity – and established the Peer Mentoring Program to support his peers academically. Cutler has ample experience leading philanthropy and fundraising campaigns for PhiDE’s Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Additionally, Cutler was a program assistant for the CARE Reimagined Project alongside Penn Medicine’s Innovation Team and has spent years as a published clinical researcher for the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.
More recently, Cutler was a Scientist II at Novartis in cancer drug discovery where he and his team plan to create novel therapies and technologies. He is now working full-time as the founder of Looie (https://www.looie.app/blog) and cofounder of Astellar Labs, which has landed him an opportunities to partake in the Mass Challenge Accelerator and as a finalist in the Get Started Rhode Island Pitch Competition. Cutler’s broad healthcare, computer science, and scientific experience has prepared him for both technical and entrepreneurial career paths.
Annette Tonti
“Telling the Story of Your Innovation”
Speaker on 2/22/24
Managing Director, RIHub
Annette Tonti is an executive with over 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience and an early pioneer in the online advertising and mobile markets. She’s been a founder of 3 high tech startups and has raised over $30M from Venture and Angel investors. What is it that she truly loves? The application of new ideas to solve a customer problem.
Early in her career, she worked digital strategies for Fortune 1000 businesses, ran a global program for the MIT Media Labs, and headed up operations for a global telecommunications consultancy. She’s been a recognized leader at the intersection of technology and business model possibilities. Her strengths include: using technology innovation to develop new business models, creating highly motivated teams, and Software as a Service (SaaS) innovations.
She is proud to be running Rhode Island’s Innovation Hub, RIHub, where she helps high-potential growth companies land and expand here in Rhode Island.
Judges
Peter Asen
Policy Systems and Environmental Change Expert
Eva Davet
Department of Energy Resources Intern
Tory Dumas
Waterfront/ Marine Structures Project Engineer, Tighe & Bond
Alex Millard
Director of Business Development, Ameresco
Nishita Roy-Pope
CEO & Founder,
Tribe Academy LLC
Tuni Schartner
Co-founder & Director of The Hive RI, Tuni Schartner Consulting, RI’s Economic Gardner
Annette Tonti
Managing Director, RIHub
Kristin Urbach
Executive Director, North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Wilhelm
Founder & CEO,
Infused Innovations
Tory Dumas
Waterfront/ Marine Structures Project Engineer, Tighe & Bond
Alex Millard
Director of Business Development, Ameresco
Nishita Roy-Pope
CEO & Founder,
Tribe Academy LLC
Tuni Schartner
Co-founder & Director of The Hive RI, Tuni Schartner Consulting, RI’s Economic Gardner
Annette Tonti
Managing Director, RIHub
Kristin Urbach
Executive Director, North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Wilhelm
Founder & CEO,
Infused Innovations
Mentors
Jeff Bodenstab
RIHub Mentor
Susan Daly
Consultant
Chris Englund
International Go-to-Market Consultant
Manit Kaushal
Co-founder & CTO, UPI
Elle Moore
Planning Technician
Town of North Kingstown Planning Department
Mia Nolan
VMS Program Director, RIHub
Jim Owens
Principal, Nautilus Defense
Jill Rasmussen
ABD Cybersecurity and Innovation Expert
Chandler Rudert
Senior Project Manager,
Consigli Construction
Annette Tonti
Managing Director, RIHub
Chris Englund
International Go-to-Market Consultant
Manit Kaushal
Co-founder & CTO, UPI
Mia Nolan
VMS Program Director, RIHub
Jim Owens
Principal, Nautilus Defense
Jill Rasmussen
ABD Cybersecurity and Innovation Expert
Chandler Rudert
Senior Project Manager,
Consigli Construction
Annette Tonti
Managing Director, RIHub
Our Partners
H4GG is excited to announce partnerships with RI Hub, CIC, Venture Café, and Looie.
Looie’s Founder & CEO, Cutler Whitely, will kick off the hackathon as our keynote speaker.
Hack teams will be supported by expert RI Hub mentors as they ideate and prototype solutions at this year’s hackathon. Our final pitch event is hitting the road in 2024, and thanks to CIC’s District Hall, hack teams will pitch their innovative solutions right in the Center of Providence’s Innovation and Design District.
Winners will then have the opportunity to share their solutions with the wider Providence innovation community at a specially designed Venture Cafe Thursday Gathering.
