Hawk
HawkWhat is HawkHacks?
HawkHacks is an international virtual hackathon for middle
and high school students on
Saturday, May 25th, and
Sunday, May 26th. Make teams
of up to four people (individuals welcome!) and get ready
for a weekend full of brainstorming, coding, and pitching.
Hawkhacks will consist of two segments:
Ideathon: You will have the
weekend (both days) to build a coding-related solution
related to a given problem, meet with expert mentors, and
develop a pitch.
Capture the flag: On Sunday
you will be given a set of competitive-coding style problems
themed towards our chosen social issues.
The top performers accross both segments will be declared
the winners! Registration is open! Email [email protected] with any questions.
Prizes
1st Place: $100 in cash, Vercel merch (water bottles, hats, stickers), and Wolfram Alpha Pro subscriptions
$7000 of additional prizes that will be awarded to other winners.
Mentors
Karina Chung
Student at Harvard (HCHS '22)
Karina co-organized and led HawkHacks 2021 and 2022. Her interests include climate and environment and responsible technology, and she co-founded a nonprofit from an AI hackathon in high school. Karina now studies Applied Math and Data Science at Harvard, and has worked within and beyond the climate space across private equity, academic research, and startups.
Charles Brecque
Founder and CEO of TextMine
Charles started TextMine in Oxford in 2020 with Amber Akhtar after experiencing data loss and friction when working with legal and financial business-critical documents. TextMine leverages patented knowledge graph technology and large language models in order to structure the unstructured data in documents. Prior to TextMine, Charles was the first commercial hire at Mind Foundry, a machine learning spin-out from the University of Oxford. Charles is a graduate of the École Centrale de Lyon.
Dr. Stefan Robila
Professor of Computer Science / Director of the Computational Sensing Laboratory at Montclair State University
Between Jan 2018 and Jan 2021 Dr. Robila served as Program Director in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Robila's teaching experience spans the Computer Science and IT undergraduate and graduate curriculum and includes all introductory computing courses (taught in Pascal, C, C++, Java and Python), discrete mathematics, operating systems, computer organization, computer security, robotics, pattern recognition, high performance computing, and theory of programming languages. Dr. Robila completed his M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) in Computer Science at Syracuse University and his B.S. (1997) at the University of Iasi (Romania). He is an ACM and IEEE senior member and IEEE Region I award recipient.
Sponsors
