NIU’s Office of Innovation will be hosting a nontraditional hackathon competition for students 18 and over on November 5-6th, 2022. We would truly appreciate you helping the Huskie Hack family by getting the word out to your students, helping them build multidisciplinary teams and offering them pre-event mentoring.
We believe in the difference you make in the lives of our students, and nothing means more to them than the future sustainability of their planet and helping them achieve that goal.
The overarching theme of this hack is sustainability with an emphasis on the future of food systems and its challenges. We are inviting students from NIU and around the Midwest region to form multidisciplinary teams of 4 to 6 members to take a crack at solving problem sets focused on challenges surrounding food systems. They will choose a problem statement from one of the following areas: Food waste, Regionalization of food systems, Human diversity in agriculture.
This isn’t a traditional hackathon that just focuses on coding but one that focuses on solution-based ideas - Students from all disciplines will be asked to explore the topic, understand the problem sets, and use the knowledge and expertise from industry and university mentors and specialists before pitching their solutions to the judges. Large prizes are available.
For more information, please follow the link below or if you want to be involved, Bryan Flower, at bflower@niu.edu.
https://www.niu.edu/divresearch/innovation/huskie-hack.shtml
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