Join us Friday, April 29, 2016 at Austin Community College's new Highland Campus ACCelerator for our first ever UX Hackathon! Tickets are free!

We're going to be hacking to advance and enhance the online college experience.

What are we hacking?
We are focused on developing innovative interactive/digital solutions that:

• Strengthen, support and enhance the total college experience for students, employees, and alumni.

• Create unique opportunities for cross-channel community building for the college.

Who can participate?

• Any student actively involved in a degree or certificate program in the Visual Communications Department

• Students enrolled in the senior level Spring User Experience 2 class will be core UX team leads for the Hackathon teams.

• Subject matter experts in user experience and interactive design will serve as UX team mentors at the event.

• ACC students and employees that want to serve as user research interviewees and prototype testers at the event.

What to expect…
Friday, April 29, from 1pm-10pm:
Kickoff, participant pitches, form teams, develop ideas, sprint to complete prototypes and presentations.

Saturday, April 30 from 1pm-3pm:
Teams will deliver presentations to the judging panel, winners selected, prizes awarded.

This event is brought to you by the Visual Communication department's UX degree faculty and students in collaboration with our friends from Austin's User Experience and Interactive Design community.

VisCom UX Hackathon - Code of Conduct
By registering and participating in the VisCom UX Hackathon 2016 you are agreeing to:

• Keep a safe and respectful environment for all other participants.

• Act to ensure other participants are free to fully express their identities.

• Recognize that participants have different backgrounds and levels of experience.

• Everybody should be welcome, questions encouraged, and mentoring opportunities sought.

• Bring positive efforts and skills to bear, and prefer language such as “yes/and” to “no/but.”

• Strive to listen as much as they speak.

• Actively involve community groups and those with subject matter expertise in the decision-making process.

• Ensure that the relationships and conversations between all participants remain respectful, participatory, and productive.

• Provide an environment where people are free from discrimination or harassment.

Event organizers reserve the right to take action, up to and including expulsion, in response to violations of these policies.

Anti-Harassment Policy
The VisCom Department is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, age, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of staff, presenters, and participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any VisCom event or network activity, including talks. Anyone in violation of these policies may expelled from VisCom events or network activities, at the discretion of the event organizers.

Harassment includes but is not limited to: offensive verbal or written comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion; sexual images in public spaces; deliberate intimidation; stalking; following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; unwelcome sexual attention; unwarranted exclusion; and patronizing language or action.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from VisCom events and network activities.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the event staff immediately. Event staff will help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event.

If you cannot reach an event organizer and/or it is an emergency, please call 911 and/or remove yourself from the situation.

We value your attendance and hope that by communicating these expectations widely we can all enjoy a harassment-free environment

Credits
This code of conduct and anti-harassment policy are based on ones published by Code for America at https://github.com/open-austin/codeofconduct

The Code for America anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers. It also incorporates aspects from several other policies, including the Ohio LinuxFest anti-harassment policy, written by Esther Filderman and Beth Lynn Eicher, and the Con Anti-Harassment Project. Mary Gardiner, Valerie Aurora, Sarah Smith, and Donna Benjamin generalized the policies and added supporting material. Many members of LinuxChix, Geek Feminism and other groups contributed to this work.

Thank you,
The VisCom Department