Opportunity Hack 2016 Arizona

Connect.. Build and Empower organizations to change lives across the world

Our fourth annual Opportunity Hack will open at 8:00 a.m. on October 1st. At Opportunity Hack, you can network, share ideas and build solutions that enable impact and social innovation!
Join a team that will hack solutions for any of the problem statements listed by our partnering non-profits!

Check in will be from 8:00 until 9:00. Please note that ONLY THE FIRST 200 will be allowed to enter the door.

At 9:00 we'll have our opening keynote speaker.

Then the fun begins! Our non-profits will all have an opportunity to pitch their ideas to all the participants. We'll be moving this along quickly so that we can move into team building. You can bring a whole team, but if you don't, we're pretty good at facilitating team formation. This is the part of the program that people tend to be the most nervous about, but it all works out. We've done it successfully a number of times and we'll make sure you get hooked up.

Please note that the pitch session scheduled to take place at 9:30 am is for only non-profits pitching ideas.

11:00 a.m. It's time to get your Hack On! You have from now until 3:00 p.m. on Sunday! We're providing meals and snacks and support around the clock.

3:00 p.m. on Sunday it's time to let the keyboard rest. You'll want to have your prototype and presentation ready for a three minute presentation to the judges with some Q&A. There will be a brief intermission for scoring and then the top teams will be chosen and accolades will flow! This will mark the end of the event and the beginning of the celebration, where we will also provide appropriate supplies.

Detailed Agenda

Saturday (10/01)

• 08:00AM: Doors open for check-in
• 09:00AM: Opening ceremony
• 09:30AM: Project pitches
• 10:30AM: Team formation
• 11:00AM: The Hackathon begins!
• Noon: Lunch is served
• 02:00PM: Submit team details
• 06:00PM: Dinner is served
• HACK THROUGH THE NIGHT

Sunday (10/02)

• Midnight: Pizza served
• 08:00AM:Breakfast is served & Subject matter experts available (3 hours)
• Noon: Lunch is served / I can’t think straight but this tastes awesome!
• 02:00PM: Code checked into GitHub
• 02:45PM: Presentations submitted on DevPost
• 03:00PM: Hackathon ends
• 03:00PM: Tour(s) of TechShop facilities available
• 03:15PM: Judging
• 04:30PM: Tour(s) of TechShop facilities end
• 04:30PM: Closing Keynote
• 05:00PM: Winners are announced / Prizathon!
• 05:30PM: Drinkathon / You’ve survived… let’s celebrate!

Find out more about Opportunity Hack 2014, 2015, and some of the success stories here.

Partners

Avnet, Inc.      TechShop, Inc.

Keynote:     Jaime Casap, Education Evangelist, Google Inc.

Jaime Casap is the Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of technology and the web as enabling and supporting tools in pursuit of promoting inquiry-driven project-based learning models. Working with the Google for Education Team, Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation and iteration into our education policies and practices. He speaks on education, technology, innovation, and generation z, at events around the world.

In addition to his role at Google, Jaime serves on a number of boards, including Inquiry Schools Dot Org, Seed Spot NEXT, and Mi Familia Vota.  He is part of the Phoenix Union School District Team, who created the Phoenix Coding Academy, an inquiry-based high school designed with computer science as the core language students use in pursuit of the problems they want to solve.  Jaime is also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University, where he teaches classes on policy, innovation, and leadership.

You can read Jaime’s blog at www.jcasap.com and can follow and reach him on Twitter at @jcasap

Closing Keynote:  Trinity Donovan, CEO of Chandler Christian Community Center 

Trinity Donovan serves as the CEO of Chandler Christian Community Center. CCCC changes lives by nourishing minds and bodies to create a connected, thriving community through services including food boxes, senior meals, rent and utility assistance, and family and early childhood programming. Working in nonprofit leadership positions for the past 17 years, her areas of focus have included hunger and homelessness, early childhood, senior programs, financial stability, domestic violence, and youth development. Trinity also served two terms as a Council Member for the City of Chandler and has represented the city on a regional and national level in areas of human services, transportation, water, and sustainability.

A graduate of Chandler High School, Trinity holds a bachelor's degree in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and a master's degree in Sociology – both from Stanford University. She and her husband, Ray Bolkan, enjoy spending time with their daughters, Micah Rae and Naomi, who are both under 2 years old.