Education at the IoT Hackday

Every year we ask ourself How can we increase the quality of our education at this years IoT Hackday?

In the past we have done the following:

• Provided experience mentors on as many teams as we could
• Provide sample IoT kits to get started
• Invited teachers from local schools to participate in the hackathon

Focus for 2022

• This year we are putting a special focus on getting more women and minorities involved in our educational programs. We are specifically working with organizations such as Code Savvy to increase participation of women and students from disadvantaged communities. Please contact Val Lockart or send email to val@codesavvy.org if you have questions or can help us find other ways to engage with our underrepresented communities.

Games and Costumes

We try to make coding and IoT technology fun and appeal to students that focus on creativity and the arts. We find that adding low-cost LEDs to games costumes is a great way to make the experience more fun.

In 2019 the "Blue Ringed Octopus" costume was one of our favorites.