Golden Hack: Impact Weekend

Looking to boost your skills for your resume? Want to gain some experience and insight by working on real world problems alongside industry mentors?  How about the chance to win cash for your input and ideas? 

UNC Charlotte students from all majors, backgrounds and levels of experience come together for a common focus over the weekend of Oct. 20-22 to share ideas and creations. Students will collaborate in a low-stakes environment to design, develop and pitch ideas that solve real world problems. 

Each participant will receive an Entrepreneurial Thinking Micro-Credential!

Challenges:

1. Digital Transformation: AI, Advancing Personalized Learning, Enhancing Virtual Reality and Health Informatics


2. Sustainability: How can we make solar energy more economical? How can we provide access to clean water? Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure. Food Insecurity.


3. Securing Cyberspace: Supply Chain, Security, Digital Trust and Financial Security.


4. Social Impact: Community Engagement


5. OPEN: Already have a topic you want to tackle? Submit an overview to the committee. This category will be limited, so submit your idea as soon as possible.

Resources will be available for participants to review and focus in on a problem they would like to work on during the Golden Hack: Impact Weekend.

Oct. 17, 2023 - Oct. 22, 2023

Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

PORTAL, 9319 Robert D. Snyder Rd, Charlotte, NC 28262, USA

$6,000