In a race to end in COVID-19 in its track the world is coming together to tackle the disease from all facets. We decided especially, in tough economic times, to inspire people to use STEM to join the fight, but putting $1000 prize on a 3-weeklong challenge.
You until Friday April 24, 11:59PM EST for your team (1-5 people) to develop a coding solution to reduce harm and improve quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Develop a software solution (as a shippable product) that addresses one or more of the following problems that have arisen as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Submit information on this form https://forms.gle/jMA21pfvScLMZke87
- You will be sent invitation to join Minority Programmers Association Github organization where you will be placed on team
- Join our Discord server to stay updated with competition updates, ask questions, and learn from other competitors! https://discord.gg/KYutrY8
https://forms.gle/8RmhafuF9G8jkmmX6
The more people consider for a team, the more the prize split. Your team can be up to 1-5 people. All members must register for the competition, and also specify their team name with fellow team members’ github usernames. If you do not have team mates, you can find other members on our Discord server.
All files must be submitted as a link in the Github submission form by Friday April 17, 11:59 PM EST
- Your own repo must have README.md file describing your solution
- There must be instructions on how to run your file and graphical user interfaces (GUIs are appreciated)
Specify Hardware/OS requirements if relevant Terminal Commands, Website, Software Download, etc.
- Presentation of product (optional)
Powerpoint, YouTube Video, etc.
Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is an infectious disease that came to prominence after its first outbreak in the Wuhan province of China in December of 2019. Four months later on March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization, declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Since then there have been over 1,000,000+ reported cases, and 50,000+ confirmed deaths globally. With reported cases in over 204 countries, this pandemic is forcing schools and businesses to close, economic insecurity, abrupt transition to remote work, isolation, stress on health care systems, and much more problems that cannot be enumerated. We at MPA have begun to list a wide array of problems with links so we can begin to get an idea of how we can tackle this problem from all perspectives.
- Health Education
- Self-Quarantining
- Forced Isolation
- Sanitization/Sterilization
- Germ Detection
- Affording Medical Care
- Paying Bills
- Provisioning of aid
- Unemployment
- Health care worker transportation
- Transport of masks, medical equipment
- Activities/Hobbies
- Keeping Active/General Health Guides
- Mental Health Support
- Migration Crisis
- World Trade
- Travel Restrictions
- Political Change
- Testing/Accuracy & Access
- Symptom Tracking
- Preventative and Early Treatment
- Prior background history of patients
- Tracking new death tolls and new cases
- Tracking unreported cases
- Predicting spread of disease
- Care of elderly populations
- Safety of health professionals
- Accomodating for influx of cases
- Racial Bias
- Mass Surveillance
- Incarcerated Populations
- Enforcing Lockdown Laws
- Studying COVID gene
- Protein folding
- Artificial Intelligence
Application that
- promotes activity while in quarantine
- allows you to quantify the number of people you interact with
- detects when people congregate more than 10 at a time
Use camera and heatmap technology
- predicts the spread of coronavirus
- provides recommendations for sick patients
- has a checklist for symptoms of COVID-19
- tracks availability of testing
- prioritizes testing based on severity of symptoms
- allows doctors to diagnose patients over the phone
- allows you to easily see changing store hours during the COVID-19 Epidemic
- allows you to see which areas in the world are currently on lockdown
Maybe feature that says TO and FROM and when or if you can travel
- allows you to see deals/promotions related to COVID-19
- allows you to track the CDC process for developing a cure
- has a data visualization set that shows that demographics of those who died as a result of COVID-19 notifies of quarantine updates via text message
- Coronavirus Death Toll and Trends - Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/
- COVID-19 Overview | COVID-19 Dashboards https://covid19dashboards.com/covid-overview/
- The COVID Tracking Project https://covidtracking.com/
- Google COVID-19 Map https://google.com/covid19-map/?hl=en
- Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov.
- Github Highilights Open-Source COVID-19 Projects https://github.blog/2020-03-23-open-collaboration-on-covid-19/?utm_campaign=1584995040&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_content=1584995040
On our discord server https://discord.gg/KYutrY8 we will be continuously contributing new ideas, feedback, and help to anyone that wants to learn and create
The prize will be announced on our YouTube stream, 3 days after the submission deadline (Monday, April 20th, 7 PM EST). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyW7g2wCxHrKhlgdkBkFFVw
- If you have multiple people in your team, the total grand prize will be divided evenly amongst all winning team members.
- If you are not in the United States please indicate so we can give prize according to standards of your country.
Check the YouTube video live stream to see the results. You will then be contacted by MPA executive members with ways to claim your certificate and prize money. Also awards and other accolades will be given to noteworthy participants.
- Choosing front and back end developers. Researchers, Dreamers
- Learn Agile SCRUM Methodologies https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kcQlbpw6Bd7oN6VS7fTraYq-ROIpNDF/view?usp=sharing
- How to Work Remotely Effectively https://www.businessinsider.com/traits-remote-worker-work-from-home-2019-9#5-being-able-to-develop-a-sense-of-structure-outside-of-a-traditional-office-environment-is-a-key-part-of-being-a-remote-worker-5
- Version control https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control
Github
- MPA Github Basics https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVt0n_t320Mb2WInwlf2xJGy9hCEApFN/view?usp=sharing
- Project Boards https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/about-project-boards Agile Scrum Development
- MPA Agile SCRUM Crash Course https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mqVf3nUhhpsL5YXGH8JGuOUBoqYsNsQutyLZ_r-uw-Q/edit#slide=id.g700f82a971_1_160 Social Media
- Discord https://discord.gg/KYutrY8
- GroupMe
- Zoom
- YouTube
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/minority-programmers/
- Twitter https://twitter.com/minorityprogram
The bigger the prize, the bigger the teams, and the more complex the solution. We at MPA would love to partner with organizations aiming to reduce harm by channeling the talents of coder’s across the world through situational learning.
- Appear as ally for minorities and patron of innovation during time of crisis
- The more money the more professional hackathees will come to forefront and make more effective solutions
- Opportunity to invest in startup technology from competition
- Ability to recruit talented workers into your organization
- Continued partnership with MPA
We at the Minority Programmers Association prioritize STEM education, believing that it is the key to upward mobility in the 21st century. We believe in the efficacy of project-based learning, group-learning, interdisciplinary teamwork, where the students use their passion as their primary motivation. If you are a data scientist, professor, or a student interested in collecting data regarding how the principles impact the software development process, contact Jack V, Education Specialist, [email protected]. We believe this particular Hackathon is interesting as it faces the challenge of both remote work and individual social distancing of the team.
We need live TAs that can host sessions on Zoom/Discord/Twitch to facilitate questions that participants may have. We believe that competition should also create an ability to teach others different technologies and we hope to build a rich live community of online resources from across the world.
If you are not competing you can also help the race to stop COVID-19 in its track in a through many means including.
- Sharing this hackathon flyer on social media
- Providing feedback in our chats/forums throughout
- Helping the Minority Programmers to organize this event
Want to join the network of STEM professionals that is the Minority Programmers Association? No chapter near you? You can still be a mentor to youth, work on software projects, develop STEM curriculum, and contribute to all overall missions through our international network.
If you are interested in starting a MinorityProgrammers chapter at your college/school contact [email protected] with subject line entitled: Starting A Chapter At YOUR_SCHOOL
Want to participate as a judge? Email [email protected] a brief summary about yourself and why you want to be a judge with the Subject Line: Judge Application