Welcome to The Academy for Innovative Education's first Techathon, a challenge for our students of all skill levels. This event offers workshops to learn new skills or refine existing ones, events to have fun and network in, challenges to take on, and a program showcase from the middle school students. Whether you are a beginner with no experience, or one of our more advanced students, we hope you enjoy this exciting oppurtunity to create and innovate!
Students and their parents are welcome to attend workshops if interested. Submitting a project for the challenges is only available to students.
A hackathon is a social coding event that brings computer programmers and other interested people together to improve upon or build a new software program. The word hackathon is a portmanteau of the words hacker, which means clever programmer, and marathon, an event marked by endurance. You will spend the duration of this event programming or using technical software to create something new based on the challenges you are presented with. If you don't know how to do any of that, that's okay. Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of if you are a beginner or an advanced student. There will be workshops to learn from, activites to partcipate in, challenges to conquer, and prizes to earn! While there will be workshops to learn and mentors to help out, this event promotes self initiative and learning. If you have a great idea but don't know how to do it, open a new tab in your browser and get to searching! The resources tab on this site has a few great links to get started!
Be sure to attend the opening ceremony on Friday, May 17th, 2024 (3:00 PM Eastern Time). Take a moment to ensure you are familiar with the rules of the event.
May 17, 2024 - May 19, 2024
Academy for Innovative Education
Online
$950
