🅰️ℹ️ Design an innovative platform that enhances collaboration and inclusivity at hackathons, aiming to boost participant diversity and maximize impact. Your solution should focus on creating a supportive environment where diverse ideas flourish and all voices are heard. Utilize data collection methods to understand participants' experiences, and prototype features that facilitate team formation, role distribution, and idea sharing, ensuring fairness and equal opportunities for all. Let's empower the next generation of innovators!

Outline

Hackfinder

• Show hackfinder
• Test hackfinder
• Discuss potential changes to hackfinder

Team formation

• Typical problems with Hackathon team formation
• Deferred acceptance algorithms as a possible solution
• Potential events to test

Post-event question bank

• Handout with potential post event questions: 1. Basis questions for all events, 2. Optional questions.
• Discussion: Attractive to have general tool? Content?
• Potential uses for aggregate results? (e.g., research, improving events)