RHCD Hackathon 2025
February
18-21
2025 HACKATHON
PRODUCED BY
ROCKY HILL
COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
2025 HACKATHON
PRODUCED BY
ROCKY HILL
COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
February
18-21
2025 Topic: Peace, Justice, and
Strong Institutions
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
This year, students in grades PreK through 12 will work to RECOGNIZE barriers to Peace & Justice and REIMAGINE approaches for REBUILDING communities and institutions that prioritize Peace & Justice for all.
Who?
Hack for Global Good welcomes students from around Rhode Island to work together to develop innovative solutions related to UN Global Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. No prior Hackathon experience is required! New hackers welcome!
Where?
Students will hack at Rocky Hill Country Day School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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 18
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Kickoff Event with Keynote Speaker, Paris Dior
12:20 PM – 3:15 PM
Groups Hack / Mentors Support (Focus Areas: Define and Ideate)
Wednesday, February 19
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
How to Prototype
12:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Teams Hack / Mentors Support (Focus Area: Prototype)
Thursday, February 20
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
Pitch Tips
12:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Finish Prototyping/Work on Pitches/Mentors Support (Focus Area: Test)
Friday, February 21
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Plan for the Day
8:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Pitch Practice & Feedback
10:45
Depart for Providence
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lunch on Thayer Street
12:30 PM
Bus to CIC Providence
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Pitch Competition (CIC Building, Providence)
2:30 PM
Bus Returns to RHCD
Stand Up
For Human
Rights
In 2018, the number of
people fleeing war,
persecution and conflict
exceeded 70 million.
Hack Student Leaders
Koray Kokturk
Co-Director
Elina Sun
Co-Director
Ariana Hernandez
Marketing Chair
Hunter Freitas
Marketing Committee
Luke Lehouiller
Marketing Committee
Alara Kokturk
Marketing Committee
Ali Sasa
Marketing Committee
Katie O’Neil
Outreach Chair
Ben Shapiro
Outreach Committee
Noah Ruggiero
Outreach Committee
Ariana Hernandez
Marketing Chair
Hunter Freitas
Marketing Committee
Alara Kokturk
Marketing Committee
Luke Lehouiller
Marketing Committee
Ali Sasa
Marketing Committee
Katie O’Neil
Outreach Chair
Noah Ruggiero
Outreach Committee
Ben Shapiro
Outreach Committee
Carter Holubesko
UX Chair
Wilbur Conterio
LS UX Committee
Kaileigh Kelleher
LS UX Committee
Eva Richards
LS UX Committee
Zach Darrow
MS UX Committee
Liam Reynolds
MS UX Committee
Delilah Tully
MS UX Committee
Ava Cappuccilli
US UX Committee
Keynote Speaker
Paris Dior
Founder, Visionaries
Empowered Through Art
Judges
Christine Davis Jones ‘80
Retired, Mortgage Banker/Housing Advocate
Paris Dior
Founder, Visionaries
Empowered Through Art
Renee Hobbs
Founder, Media Education Lab
Heather Angel
Mars-Martins
Narragansett Tribal Councilor
Cortlandt Meyerson ‘20
Founder, Why Regenerative
Tuni Schartner
Co-founder & Director
of The Hive RI,
Tuni Schartner Consulting,
RI’s Economic Gardner
Meg Stowe
Founder, Girls Leadership Collaborative, Former Director of Innovation and founding Hack for Global Good Co-Creator 2017-2022, Mentor to the Student Founders
Annette Tonti
Managing Director, RIHub
Kristin Urbach ‘87
Executive Director, Connecticut Wind Collaborative
Jeffrey Wilhelm
Founder & CEO,
Infused Innovations
Our Partners
H4GG is grateful for our continued partnerships with RIHub and CIC.
Our final pitch event is hitting the road in again in 2025, and thanks to RIHub and CIC, hack teams will pitch their innovative solutions at District Hall in the Center of Providence’s Innovation and Design District.
