AT&T Mobile App Hackathon (Parks and Recreation) - Seattle

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?

Parks and Recreation Hack! Join us for a Mobile App Hackathon focused on finding innovative solutions to help people and organizations promote an active lifestyle. Use your passion for coding to develop an App to make it easier to enjoy the great outdoors or other recreational activities. Hackathons are coding competitions, where individuals and teams build mobile apps from scratch over a 24 hour period. The apps are then pitched to judges and prizes award for the best apps. Hackathons are a great opportunity to learn new technologies, network with fellow developers, enjoy some food, most importantly have some fun!

The Hackathon will be held in Seattle Washington at Surf Incubator, starting Friday March 18 at 6pm and ending Saturday March 19 approximately 8:30pm. See the full schedule below.

You Bring...

Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!

We Supply...

Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. We will also have loaner hardware on-site (limited supply) for you to use in your solutions.

• Arduino Boards: Sunfounder Super Kit with Uno R3 for Arduino (Documentation)
• RobotLinking 37 Sensor Kit
• Intel Edison (Documentation) + Grove - Starter Kit Plus Intel IoT Edition
• CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (Monitor and keyboard not included)
• Raspberry Pi 2, Model B 1GB, Documentation (Monitor and keyboard not included)
• Photon Board Maker Kit (Documentation)

Event Schedule

The following is a list of the weekend's agenda:

Day 1

• 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking and developer dating

• 7PM - Speakers present (see below for list)

• 8PM - Pitch idea and form teams

• 12AM - The venue will close for the evening. You may continue hacking overnight offsite or get some sleep.

Day 2

• 10:00AM - The fun continues with coffee served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec'd. Mentors will be available throughout the entire day to help you code your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 4PM.

• 12:00PM - Lunch is served

• 4PM - Submit your app!

• 5PM - Dinner is served

• 6PM - Pencils down. Pitches start promptly at 6PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. PowerPoint presentations are NOT recommended!

Prizes

• Best Hackathon Overall App or IoT Solution: $1000 in Amazon gift cards for the team
  
• Best Parks and Recreation themed App or IoT Solution: $500 in Amazon gift cards for the team
  
• Community Choice Award: $250 in Amazon gift cards for the team
• Most Effecient Mobile App (as measured by AT&T ARO)
  Please read this PDF, http://tinyurl.com/SeattleAROHack, for all instructions, eligibility requirements and entry forms.
  
  • Pre-hack contest: $500 in Amazon gift cards
  • Hackathon Prize: $500 in Amazon gift cards for the team
  • Sphero Raffle: Submit your ARO Trace to enter each of your team members for a chance to win One (1) Sphero Ollie

Judging Criteria

Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.

• 33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does

• 33% Weight - Originality of idea

• 33% Weight - Technically creative and/or challenging implementation

Hackathon Legal

Hackathon terms: http://db.tt/kyPS9ojR

Social Media

• Follow us, @attdeveloper, for live updates and photos from the event

• "Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ATTDeveloper

Parking Information (including Free Parking)

Parking rates for 4th and Maddison Garage (map):

• Friday after 5pm- 1am: $7 (Vehicles that exit after 1am on Saturday =$14)
• Saturday all day $7

In addition, we have partnered with the 4th and Maddison Garage to be able to offer the first 50 attendees, who present their 4th and Maddison parking ticket at the registration table each day, free parking validation!

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Speakers

Jesús Aguirre is Superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation. He was confirmed by the Seattle City Council on May 11, 2015.

Aguirre began his career as a middle school science teacher in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Most recently, he served as the State Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, overseeing an agency responsible for childcare licensing and subsidy programs for over 500 childcare providers, statewide K-12 education policy-making, support and accountability for over 200 public schools, and post-secondary and adult education.

Prior to his role as State Superintendent of Education, Aguirre served as the director of the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation.

Aguirre is a proud father of three children attending public schools. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the WP Carey School of Business at the Arizona State University.

Ayele Dagne,Seattle Parks and Recreation IT Director, is very experienced in local government technology, and is aware of many of the information opportunities and technology challenges related to Parks systems and transportation systems. Ayele encourages his team members to “Find a way to make it happen”. His hope is that he and his team can assist you this weekend to do the same. Chris Metcalf is a technologist, software developer, and awkward nerd based in Seattle, Washington. He is currently the Director of Developer Experience at Socrata, a fast-growing startup in Seattle that helps governments serve their constituents better through the creative use of open data. John Sunda Hsia is a Senior Product Manager at the AT&T Developer Program and is responsible for the AT&T Application Resource Optimizer along with other developer tools. Previously, he had worked on several other developer programs, product APIs and has launched and managed several family safety and security apps and services. During his career, he has had the pleasure of driving many leading edge technologies, tools and processes and now, is especially excited to bring free diagnostic tools to the mobile developer community. Jami Walker, Sr. Marketing Manager at AT&T, is based out of Seattle! She has been in the marketing world for 12 years, the last 7 in customer retention at AT&T . She is excited to get her feet wet in the developer world and bring talented people together who are passionate about creating innovative mobile applications. Ed Donahue, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at AT&T, is based out of sunny Seattle! She is passionate about enabling developers and hackers to create awesome stuff! She's a huge supporter of women in tech and encourages everyone to try programming.

Sponsors

Media Sponsors

Judges

Jesús Aguirre is Superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation. He was confirmed by the Seattle City Council on May 11, 2015.

Aguirre began his career as a middle school science teacher in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Most recently, he served as the State Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, overseeing an agency responsible for childcare licensing and subsidy programs for over 500 childcare providers, statewide K-12 education policy-making, support and accountability for over 200 public schools, and post-secondary and adult education.

Prior to his role as State Superintendent of Education, Aguirre served as the director of the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation.

Aguirre is a proud father of three children attending public schools. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the WP Carey School of Business at the Arizona State University.

Ayele Dagne,Seattle Parks and Recreation IT Director, is very experienced in local government technology, and is aware of many of the information opportunities and technology challenges related to Parks systems and transportation systems. Ayele encourages his team members to “Find a way to make it happen”. His hope is that he and his team can assist you this weekend to do the same. Yuriy Zaremba is a user experience design lead, currently working on eReader products at Amazon Kindle. Prior to his role at Amazon, Yuriy designed for Microsoft, Toyota, GM, Samsung, Blackberry, Disney, Kellogg's and other household names. In his off-time he promotes Seattle design community as an officer with UXPA Seattle, and volunteers on the City of Kent's Parks and Recreation Commission.