Philly Codefest is a two-day coding competition to transform data into real world solutions. This exciting coding marathon brings together innovative thinkers and programmers of all types.
Participants organize into teams; either before arriving or during the event, and over two days build exciting new prototypes and tools.
PhillyHealth Codefest
February 20-22, 2015
Drexel University
Behrakis Grand Hall – Creese Student Center
3210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Agenda |
Location |
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February 20 |
Friday |
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6:00pm– 9:00pm |
Philly Codefest Opening Night (sponsored by Chestnut Street Caterers)
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Behrakis Grand Hall |
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February 21 |
Saturday |
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7:30am – 10:15am |
Breakfast, Coding Begins |
Behrakis Grand Hall |
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10:15am-11:00am |
Codefest Kick-Off and API Demos |
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12:00pm |
Lunch donated by Caviar.com |
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1:00pm |
Deadline for teams to notify judges of problem statement and official team members |
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5:30pm – 7:00pm |
Dinner |
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February 22 |
Sunday |
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12:00am-12:00pm |
Coding Continues |
Behrakis Grand Hall |
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7:30am |
Breakfast |
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12:00pm |
Coding Ends! |
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12:00pm-1:00pm |
Lunch and Judging setup |
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1:00pm-2:30pm |
Philly Codefest Demo Fair and Judging |
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2:30pm-3:00pm |
Judging – Final Presentation Setup |
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3:00pm-5:00pm |
Final Presentations and Awards Ceremony |
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Eligibility
- Participants 18 years of age and over
- Teams should be between 3-5 members
- All coding must be done on site (please) unless you have extraordinary circumstances. There is a LOT of guidance on data and the challenge that will be provided by more than a dozen subject matter experts who are making themselves available to help coach and consult with you. If you work offsite, you will be at a distinct disadvantage.
Requirements
- You need to sign up for your presentation and judging via a signup link provided (to be emailed out to all registrants) by 1 PM on Saturday, February 21, 2015.
- Submit a brief/one-to-two sentence description of your project when you sign up your team for presentation.
- Leave adequate time to prepare your slide-deck and refine your presentation.
- Know that Live Demos Rule! AND YOU MUST ALSO EXPLAIN how your solution meets user needs, is truly innovative and able to be implemented!!!
- The initial round of judging will be done “Science Fair” style. Following completion of coding, teams will be given time to time to set up their exhibition tables before judging begins.
- Teams will then be visited by judges and given up to 3 minutes to demo your hack.
- You are responsible for setup (though there will be help) and providing your presentations to the organizers.
- Final judging for teams moving forward from the “Science Fair”: 4 minute presentation, plus 3 minutes of Q&A—not to exceed total 8 minutes including setup.
- Brevity rocks! The judges retain the right to cut you short.
Prizes
CodeAcross Prize
Beyond Innovation prize
Other major prizes to be announced!
More To Be Announced
More Prizes will be announced closer to the event
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To register please visit, http://www.eventbrite.com/e/philly-codefest-tickets-15137120535
Judges
Larry Alexander
Senior Associate Dean (Special Projects), The College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University
Chris Alfano
Chief Developer, Jarvus/Devnuts/Code for Philly, Developer Evangelist
James Denyer
Director Information Governance, Business Technology Services, Independence Blue Cross
Fred Hosaisy
Director Information Governance, Business Technology Services, Independence Blue Cross
Spiros Mancoridis
Senior Associate Dean (Computer Science), The College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
Angel Rivera
Developer Evangelist / Senior Architect, Point.io
Chuck Sacco
Entrepreneur in Residence and Director of External Relations, Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship / Director, Laurence A Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship at Drexel
Dave Voyles
Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Judging Criteria
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How well does your solution meet well-defined user needs? 25 points
a) How well have you integrated subject matter knowledge and available data sets in creating your solution? -
How innovative is your idea? 35 points
a) We encourage you to use legacy codebases, libraries, APIs, and databases—using an honor system tell us what you produced during the event. -
How readily might your solution be implemented? 25 points
a) How much of your solution is demonstrated during your presentation? b) Litmus test: will someone pay you to use it, or use it even if you gave it away for free! Why? -
How good was your presentation? 15 points
a) Prepare slides. b) You need to convince the judges not only how cool your technology is, but how well it addresses the problem, how likely it is to be used, how viable it is as a product in the market place? c) Live demo, if applicable
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