mLab @ Workshop 17
The Watershed, 17 Dock Road, V&A Waterfront, 8001 Cape Town South Africa
- Space Apps
- Data Bootcamp
April 23, 2016 @ 8:30am – April 24, 2016 @ 5:00pm
Registration for Space Apps is Closed
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Hello Cape Town! mLab Southern Africa is proud to bring to you The International Space Apps Challenge! Join us together with fellow techies, designers, engineers, scientists and space fans @ Workshop 17.
Event Information
Directions: Workshop 17 is located at The Watershed which is right across Portswood Parking at The Waterfront.
Equipment: Please bring your own workstation, i.e laptop and we will provide some whiteboards, pens and paper to get your creative ideas flowing.
Food: We will provide plenty of snacks, meals and drinks to keep your team fuelled throughout the Challenge.
Sleeping arrangements: Please watch this space for further information regarding sleeping arrangements for the Hackathon.
Schedule
23 April 2016
- 08H30 - Registration
- 09H00 - Welcome
- 09H15 - Teams setup
- 09H30 - Ideation and Challenge selection
- 10H00 - 12H00 Parallel Tracks
- Getting started with Nodebots (Robots powered by JavaScript) using Arduino or Raspberry Pi hands on workshop [Laptop required]
- Single Page website development using jQuery or React hands on workshop [Laptop required]
- Teams that will not be attending the workshops can start working on their solutions and tweet your team name to @mLabSA #SpaceAppsCT
- 12H05 - Teams present themselves to everyone, Team Name, Where you're from & Challenge selected.
- 12H30 - Time to fuel up, Lunch Lunch Lunch
- 13H30 - 20H25 Hackathon continues
- 20H30 - Participants who will not be hacking overnight are free to go home.
- 21H00 - 22H00 Time to refuel, Supper time.
- 22H05 - 23H59 Hackathon continues
24 April 2016
- 00H00 - 06H30 Hackathon continues
- Skype Call to Space Apps Cairo
- Skype Call to Space Apps Pretoria
- 07H00 - 08H00 Time to fuel up, Breakfast time
- 08H15 - Roll Call
- 08H30 - 12H30 Teams to do final touches on their projects
- 12H35 - 13H25 Teams to work on their presentations, get projects ready for judging
- 13H00 - 14H00 Time to refuel, Lunch time, final destination is near.
- 14H15 - 15H15 Teams to present their projects to judges and other participants
- 15H30 - 15H55 Judges to finalize results
- 16H00 - 16H20 Announcement of winners & Prize giving ceremony Photos of winners to be taken.
- 16H25 - 16H30 Word of thanks
- 17H00 - Estimated time of Hackathon to end
Solutions Made Here
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