E.C. Jamming - Hackathon for Students

We are #WeCodeBusiness, a team of students and fresh graduates from HKU and CityU, aiming to provide students with diverse exposures to technology, business and entrepreneurship. Now is the time for us to introduce you our very first initiative - a Student Hackathon brought to you with partners including Microsoft, .Tech, Github, Oursky, CrossWork and more.

In this Hackathon, we are planning to do something fresh and new. Traditionally, hackathons have the image that only coders are welcome and are competative where people come to dive into projects. But what we are trying to do with this Hackathon, E.C. Jamming (EC stands for Entrepreneurship and Code), is to encourage students to explore. We want our student participants to interact, to learn from each other and to find what they can contribute in a project. So hesitate no more, you have a great idea? Come and find your teammates to realize it together! It will be exciting. We are already looking forward to see you all and your projects.

Competition Details

Eligibility

We welcome ALL university students from all backgrounds and faculties!

Team Size

Each team must have at most 3 members to compete for Microsoft Category Prize. But if you are not interested in the prize, you can have up to 4 members in your team for other prizes!

Theme

In this E.C. Jamming, we have a theme "Campus Life Hack" to encourage students working on ideas that can enrich students live on campuses!

Supports

All participants of E.C. Jamming will receive:

• A free .Tech domain for one year (worth $49.99 USD)! And last but not least, unlimited food supply in the Hackathon!
• Microsoft Azure Pass
  
• Food (4 meals)!

Prize

Of course, we also believe that the original fun in Hackathons should be maintained. The competition! Yes, We welcome and encourage students to come and explore your future in entrepreneurship with us, but we definitely don't want to make the Hackathon any less "competative". We like you try and too will reward the well-performed teams with motivating prizes:

• Microsoft Category Winner for the best project/prototype hosted on Azure: Nomination to Semi-Final round of Microsoft Imagine Cup this year!
• .Tech Category Winner for the best project/prototype hosted on a .Tech domain: Cash Prize

Every members in the two teams above will also received T-shirts and souvenirs from Github (worth $25 USD) and Free Access to CrossWork HK for one month! 

Agenda

March 4th

10:00 - Registration Starts

10:30 - Opening Ceremony

11:00 - Team Formation

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Let's Hack

16:00 - Take a Break & Tea Time

19:00 - Dinner

20:00 - Overnight Coding if you want!

March 5th

10:00 - Breakfast and Final Coding

11:00 - Pitching Workshop

13:00 - Lunch and Submission

14:00 - Pitching + Q&A

16:00 - Closing Ceremony and Prize Presentation

16:30 - Photo Time!

Unfortunately, we have to charge for tickets

All of the above freebies come from the generosity of our sponsors.

However, we still have some costs from providing unlimited food supply during the two days, marketing expenses and all the expenses from website hosting, venue and more. I can make this completely open though: Every single member in #WeCodeBusiness is unpaid and will remain that for this event. We did not organize this event for money. All of us had suffered from the frustration from the lack of experiences when we started our own projects, so we just want to make this event before we all graduate to make student community more supportive and, most importantly, have some fun and connect with the students who share the entrepreneurship spirit.

So, we still have to charge for balancing the expenses and to make sure the limited seats will not be taken by students who will go no-show. If you are interested in the event, but just have any difficulties paying the fee, please do let us know if there's any alternative ways we can help you to join us!

#Sponsorship Opportunity: If you are interested in sponsoring our event and make this event completely free for all students, which takes only marginal cash, and be recognised in this student community, please kindly reach out to us for more details at kevin@wecodebusiness.com (If we secure our last cash sponsor, we will refund the fee for registered participants! Don't worry!)

That is all from us. We will keep updating you.

So yes, that's what we have so far. We are still working on making this event even more rewarding for you. If you are interested in following us, please find us on:

E.C. Jamming: http://ecjamming.tech/

Facebook: https://facebook.com/wecodebusiness

Medium: https://medium.com/wecodebusiness

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/wecodebusiness

Disclaimer: Details of the event are subject to change.

Disclaimer #2: We always do our best to not change it and only change it when it's going to be better!