Remember the night before a VEX competition, where you & your team would stay up late into the night building your robot, trying to perfect it right before the competition?
I had a lot of fun experiences on my VEX team a few years ago. However, I’m more of a programmer, so about a year ago, a few of my friends and I created an event called CodeDay. It’s a coding marathon (or hackathon) where high school & college students get together and build cool apps and games in 24 hours.
Students start the day by pitching ideas for building something they think is awesome, form teams, and then work on building it over the next 24 hours.
It’s really fun and intense – just like robotics, but instead of building a robot, you create an app or game, and you have 24 hours to do so.
We’ve hosted 11 events in 5 cities last year with over 750 student attendees, and our goal is to host 50 events reaching >3,000 students over the 2013-2014 school year.
Would anyone be interested in bringing it to their city? Both high school, college, and adult mentors can organize! In fact, high school students have actually successfully organized CodeDays before – all you need is to have a passionate team and be willing to learn. =]
Well I’m a student, but I would love to help organize it. He have some good coders in our school, including me, and we don’t get many classes that focus on C++ or Java or Python. Our team loves to code, but as I said we lack the programs. One thing though, we are a middle school team and don’t know a ton. We can contact our school board and ask them for more support. Could you give me all of the details though?
