BRIGHT HACK PLASTIC CHALLENGE Friday 19th January 2024
Hackathon Announcement:
Calling all primary, secondary, college and university students across Antigua and Barbuda - come join us, get ready to form teams, represent your schools and compete in the BRIGHT Hack - Plastic Challenge for a chance to win prizes and become a Tide Turner!!!
The Challenge - How Can We Improve Waste Infrastructure?
Admission: FREE
Host: Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN)
Location: Antigua and Barbuda
Modality: Hybrid (Online Weekly Challenges and Face to Face Finals)
Participants: Students (minimum of 3 - maximum 5 on a hacker team) representing their schools
Categories: Elementary (8 - 11 years old) / Junior (12 - 15 years old) / Senior (16 - 19 years old)
Prizes: Cash, Gift Cards, Electronics and a chance to compete in the FIRST Global 2024 Robotics Challenge
About the Hackathon:
Hackathons are unique competition events that bring individuals or teams together in rapid innovation and collaborative engineering to brainstorm business solutions to problems being faced by communities. They are also a great way to network, learn new skills or even just make new friends with similar interests.
BRIGHT: (B)oosting (R)enewables and (I)nfrastructure (G)lobally by (H)arnessing (T)echnology
The BRIGHT Hack - Plastic Challenge is being hosted by CYEN - cyen.org with support from The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean (“the BCRC-Caribbean”) - bcrc-caribbean.org which is executing the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded project, entitled “Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in Small Island Developing States (ISLANDS)” which seeks to address the sound management of chemicals and waste in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The purpose of this Hackathon is to inform the public, inspire entrepreneurship and engage youth in Antigua and Barbuda through STEM education using robotics; on the sound management of chemicals, harmful waste and focuses on raising awareness on plastic pollution through Tide Turners - tide-turners.org
Hackathon Agenda:
- Students Download the Tide Turners App (Mobile Stores)
Learn how the problem of plastic pollution is negatively affecting our environment
Download Android here
Download iOS here
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