EduTech Hackathon: Technology For Early Years Learning

An event for developers, parents and early years teachers with ideas for edtech products for children aged 4 to 8.

This is kindly being sponsored by Zzish and Founders and Coders.

The main theme for this hackathon will be communication in education. Below are a series of sub themes surrounding this area:

Communication and literacy assessment: 

Early language skills underpin subsequent reading and writing skills; therefore, children's early language development has a significant impact on future school performance. Without language and communication skills, children are unlikely to reach their full potential. 

Challenge:Develop a literacy app or platform to help children to articulate and express their ideas and experiences verbally. This should be done with the aim of both preventing language delays from happening and helping children with existing language delays.  

Instant messaging and the school readiness gap:

Following on from the first challenge that targets language only, other challenges involved in school readiness include: 

(1) physical well-being and motor development

(2) social and emotional development 

(3) approaches to learning 

(4) cognition and general knowledge 

Challenge: Creating a non-invasive platform that leverages existing content on parenting and enables parents to get connected to other parents through sharing personal development activities that have been successful for them and their children. 

Some early bird tickets have just been released and will be available until Thursday 24th March! Now is the time to grab one :) 

If you are interested in sponsoring this event or have an API to share, feel free to get in touch with Elizabeth at ela@ed-fuse.com