TNGL Presents: HackHarassment

Did you know, that over 70% of our generation experiences online harassment?

That's why TNGL, an official Carnegie Mellon student organization, is working with #HackHarassment, a joint initiative with Intel, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, and Vox Media in hosting our own #HackHarassment event.

This event is an interscholastic, interdisciplinary, diverse and inclusive event with the goal of putting a stop to online harassment

This event will is a weekend long event happening March 31st-April 2nd at Hunt Library Studio A/B on Carnegie Mellon's Campus in Pittsburgh, PA!

It is open to all students from of all skill levels, majors, universities and walks of life

Join us in our initiative to stop an issue that affects most of our generation!

There's a diversity of possibilities of what you can create at this event with lots of cool swag and prizes,

Plus: this event is FREE with Free Food the whole weekend! :)

FAQs:

What is HackHarassment?:

From the official Hack Harassment site:

"Hack Harassment is a coalition of organizations and individuals who share in the common goal of building a more inclusive and supportive online community. Hack Harassment does not guarantee the world will be free from online harassment, but together, we hope to bring us all closer to that goal.

Hack Harassment is founded by Intel, Vox Media and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. If you are interested in joining the movement, join us to #HackHarassment."

What is This Event?:

TNGL is working with #HackHarassment to host a weekend long hackathon event unlike no other

With this event, we want to see what amazing ideas and creations people from a plethora of backgrounds can make together to solve the visible epidemic of online harassment.

Some things to look out for for this weekend:

• Learn how to develop on Intel platforms like the Edison and Realsense to create cool apps involving IOT, Computer Vision and more!
  
  
• Join our breakout session about online harassment and how to end it
  
  
• Work with Comic Book Superhero and International Hip-Hop Artist Da Great Deity Dah on creating music, art, and video to put a stop to online harassment. Also collaborate on our official PSA and Anthem "Stop The Bullying" made at Carnegie Mellon!
  
  
• Learn to play and develop with VR Games with Oculus and HTC Vive Systems Set Up
  

and more!

Who Can Participate?

Unlike many hackathons this event puts a strong focus on being interdisciplinary, diverse and inclusive. That's why it's open to all universities, backgrounds, and areas of study.

We want to hear from everyone and as such NO PRIOR SKILLS ARE REQUIRED. Whether you are an experienced coder or novice, or have skills in other fields like in the arts, or medical, we welcome you. With a diversity of categories, and with such a large issue we are trying to solve, we want everyone to be able to contribute their ideas and inventions in this open event!

There also is an option to be an observer to show support!

What are the Categories?

The categories are as follows:

• Social Media
  
  
• Gaming
  
  
• App Development/IOT/Wearables
  
  
• and Music/Visual Arts

with cool prizes as well!

This event has the goal of being inclusive to all ideas people have to solve online harassment, so if one has a cool idea that may not fit in one of our existing categories we also have the 5th Category, Other for people to submit in!

DO I NEED A TEAM BEFOREHAND?

No! If you do not have a team before arrival, we will pair you with a team onsite!

WHAT RESOURCES MAY I USE/ARE AVAILABLE?

You are open to use any tool you feel comfortable with. We will have multiple platforms and software available for people to use including the Intel Realsense, Software such as Ableton Live, the entire Da Great Deity Dah catalog, comic book and action figure and several IOT systems and wearable platforms such as the Toyz Watch. You may of course bring any software or hardware you feel comfortable with! Just have fun!

SCHEDULE:

As stated, this event is March 31st-April 2nd at Hunt Library Studio A/B on Carnegie Mellon's Campus in Pittsburgh, PA

Doors will open Friday, March 31st at 6pm

We will stop Friday at Midnight, start back up Saturday morning and go overnight to Sunday, April 2nd and close 3pm

The official schedule is coming out soon!

COST:

This event will be FREE with Food Provided!

SHARE YOUR STORY! We want to hear your story (anonymously or in person) about why putting a stop to online harassment is important as we build awareness and work together to put an end to it!

Link to sign up to share your story at: https://goo.gl/forms/Y2gXHvuMD8Kmk0Tj1

ABOUT:

TNGL (Toyz Nation Gaming League) is a Carnegie Mellon student organization dedicated to fostering diversity in the tech and creative fields using gaming as a medium

Check out our event last November: http://toyznationgl.blogspot.com/2016/11/tngl-weekend-followup.html

And check out photos here!

Special thanks to Intel, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, Vox Media, Carnegie Mellon University’s Ideate Program, Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University Music Department, Da Great Deity Dah, Mood and Vibrations and Toyz Electronics.

Students, join our facebook group here and like TNGL on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/ToyzNationGL/