IWZV0200 - Road to Hackathon (Fall 2020)
Course information
| Course name | Road to Hackathon |
| Course code | IWZV0200 |
| ECTS | 3 |
| Teacher(s) | LauriMa and @huojo |
| Period | continuous (non-stop), e.g. FALL 2021 and SPRING 2022 |
| No. Implementations | 1 (continuous) |
| Peppi | Go to Peppi |
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Why should I select this course?
Course prepares its students to participate a hackathon event. Hackathon brings students, universities and companies under the same roof for limited period. For a student it offers possibility to network with like-minded people, solve real-life problems and meet their future employee.
Course is co-curated by Lauri Mäkinen, who has won multiple categories in the biggest hackathons in Europe with his team. See e.g. https://www.jamk.fi/fi/Uutiset/2017/jamkin-it-opiskelijat-nappasivat-voiton-junction-2017-hackathonissa/ and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/48-hours-hacking-2018-live-blog-junction-hackathon-lauri-m%C3%A4kinen/. Lauri won also the Junction competition 2018!
Following topics are discussed during the course
- Why participate a hackathon
- Team and roles
- Design thinking
- Technologies and environments
- Storytelling/pitching
- Choosing the challenge
- Practical arrangement before and during the event
- Priorities and scheduling during the event
There are related YouTube-videos for all of these. The assignments will be returned to our learning environment (Optima).