Time: 9:00 - 18:00 (9am-6pm) Please note that doors shut at 19:00 and you cannot stay on the premises overnight.
Requrements: Please bring your own laptop and let us know your teck stack preferences when registering.
Travel & Accommodation: please note that Fitch will not cover travel and accommodation expenses for students travelling to and whithin London.
Teams: We are happy to honor requests for team assignments wherever possible. For those joining the challenge on their own, we will be assigning teams based on skill sets and needs prior to the event, so you will have a chance to communicate a little with your team ahead of time and form a plan.
In this in-person codeathon, teams will compete to design and build a mobile app for a UK-based charity Friends of Bulgaria.
Focusing on the wellbeing of children growing up without parents or family in institutional care, this app will serve a vital social need in allowing the charity to extend their fundrasing outreach, partnerships, and promote their work.
Each team will be assigned a mentor from Fitch's full-time technology staff for the duration of the event. You will work with your mentor to develop an application that meets the needs of the organisation with features such as fundraising, event promotion, payments.
Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools, and risk services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.
Friends of Bulgaria focusses on the wellbeing of children growing up without parents or family in institutional care. Funds are allocated to NGO (non-governmental organisations) partners responding to local initiatives for improving the quality of life of children in care living isolated, routine-bound existences, often lacking in stability being housed in centres undergoing fundamental change in the process of de-institutionalisation.
In such circumstances, Friends of Bulgaria oversees projects that are tailored to address the specific needs of toddlers, teenagers and adolescents – some of whom may have social, mental and physical disabilities – to promote their self-esteem in preparation for their life as independent adults. Projects introduce children to music, dance, theatre and sport to encourage self-confidence in social communication and engagement as well as self-awareness in recreational pursuits. Other projects practice life-skills or adopt the mentoring principle to assist with educational needs and to foster personal relationships to equip individuals leaving care for further study or professional employment.
Applies to all codeathon days:
- Snacks and refreshments will be provided throughout each day.
- Each codeathon day finished at 18:00h UK time. Students cannot stay on the premises overnight. Teams can continue working on the challenge remotely after 18:00h. However, Fitch does not encourage or recommend it.
Day 1 (2nd November 2023)
| Time | Schedule |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast |
| 10:00-13h | Codeathon Begins |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch. Teams do not need to take the full breakfast hour if they do not wish to. |
| 14:00 onwards | Codeathon continues |
| 18:00 | Pizza |
Day 2 (3rd November 2023)
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast. Teams do not need to take the full breakfast hour if they do not wish to. |
| 10:00 - 13:00 | Codeathon. |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch. Teams do not need to take the full lunch hour if they do not wish to. |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Codeathon - Finishing Touches |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Deadline to submit Apps and Presentation Video |
| 16:00 | Pizza |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Judging Starts |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Award ceremony |
Nov. 2, 2023 - Nov. 3, 2023
Fitch
30 N Colonnade, London E14 5GN, UK
£5,350