🥅 Initiative: Hackathon with UTMSAM

[ArsalaBangash]

Motivation 🏁

UTMSAM is hosting a hackathon, and participating as a guest org would increase our visibility and possibly generate partnerships.

Initiative Overview 👁️‍🗨️

UTMSAM is hosting a week-long hackathon at the beginning of January. In this hackathon, students will have to develop a business + technology solution to a problem presented to them.
As an invited partner, we get to host a workshop and have a virtual booth.

Implementation Details 🛠️

We could propose running an info session + AMA, followed by hosting a virtual booth. Since students have to develop a business + technology solution to a problem presented to them, we could provide dedicated technical mentorship to students, and aid them in winning the technical prizes (if UTMSAM affords them).

Info Session (30-45 mins)

Raise awareness of Grey Software and what we do to help students bring their software ideas to life.
We could post an AMA before the info session so we know what students would like addressed.

Virtual Booth
An interactive space where people can come to us with their ideas and we can guide them on how to bring them to life and point them in the right direction.

We can offer a streamlined offering of
How to create a personal/documentation website
How to create a web extension
How to use python’s streamlit library for data science
Since this is a week-long hackathon, we could have dedicated office hours to guide students

Impact 💥

Grey Software will get more visibility in UTMSAM’s community, and it would likely be our first visiting event at UTM.

Additional details ℹ️

We could recommend https://hopin.to/ as an online event hosting solution to UTMSAM.
We can direct students to the Grey Software discord community and create a channel for the hackathon as we had created a channel for Hacktoberfest.