On December 8, 2018 I participated in my teacher's Hackathon to celebrate the end of the Hour of Code week. It was at my school I.T.H.S. from 9:30 am to about 3:00 pm. There were refreshments and beverages during the event. So first off, the contenders and I waited for people to show up to the event. Once the event got started, the teacher had us in groups and assigned us our first task of the hackathon. It was a task in which teams had pieces of paper and they had to pass them around to get to the finish line while trying to balance on the pieces of paper. If someone makes a mistake, then the whole team gets sent back to the starting line. Now unfortunately, my team lost even when we tried to use an exploit of shimmying with the pieces of paper (the teacher didn't say anything about it at the start) but even so, we got caught and had to be sent back to the starting line to do it like it was intended to. For the next task we had to do, the teacher assigned us to make 3-4 instruments from the available materials we had like paper or tape. My group had to get creative with the ideas for the instruments since we had limited and unconventional resources. My group and I made a drum from duct tape, a cylinder shaped maraca using paper and paper clips, drumsticks from paper, and a flute made out of paper. My team and I unfortunately lost again and did not score first place. For the final task, each group had to make a program, game, or website that talks or revolves around connected cities and/or city/worldly issues. My team and I assigned roles to each other. I was project manager, one was marketer/publisher, other was programmer, and the last one was designer. We discussed about the work we were going to make and came up with an idea to make a website that talks about poverty, education, and how technology helps people. Once the project was initiated, my team and I got to work. One teammate and I researched about the topics of poverty, education, and how technology helps people and wrote about it. The other two teammates went to work coding and designing the website. Once the research and writing was complete, it was sent to the programmer and designer where they implemented the writing into the website where viewers can see it. Once the project was complete, we presented it to the audience as well as other competing teams. I was not the best at speaking to the audience even when I spoke to the audience, I fumbled my words and so the marketer talked the most for the presentation. The programmer and designer decided to not present with us. At the end, surprisingly my team and I got 3rd place for the competition and won nifty little prizes. It was a lot of fun to learn about a hackathon and take part of it. I learned that you need time management to finish projects in time rather than having no plan at all.
The teacher's twitter:
https://twitter.com/MrsRamirezQ502
Pictures from the teacher's twitter that has me in it:
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| A picture from the teacher's twitter account. I am at the left sitting with a laptop above the male who has the shirt that has green letters in. |
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| A picture from the teacher's twitter account. I am at the front left looking back and away from the camera. |
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| A picture from the teacher's twitter account. I am in the front right looking at the camera. Not smiling though trying to. |
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