Welcome to CMU's first annual hackathon! This year we have three main focuses for you to choose from: Transporation & Sustainability, The Student Experience, Mental Health & Wellness on Campus.  Once you pick your focus and problem, you have 18.5 hours to develop a solution.

 

The Problems:

Mental Health & Wellness at CMU:

  1. College campuses across the country are seeing demands for mental health services beyond the schools capacity.    How can requests for mental health support be met without providing a personal counselor for everyone?
  1. Students are coming to CMU with less resilience and ability to handle challenges and disappointments. How can we help build student resilience and independence?
  2. Other

Transporation & Sustainability at CMU:

  1. What are some programs or initiatives that could be implemented to encourage people to: save water, save energy, recycle, reduce single-use plastic on campus?
  2. How can we make campus more bike friendly?
  3. Students without a car struggle to move around campus and Mount Pleasant, what type of public transportation could be offered to areas like CMU-RC, grocery stores, airports?
  4. Other

Student Experience at CMU:

  1. How to better inform students (and their parents) about food options - what is offered and where, how that's communicated, etc.  This might be touchy but could provide a good feedback loop for Chartwell's and FAS.
  2. Ride share - how to help students find rides to and from home for weekends, holidays, and other breaks.
  3. Other

Good luck and happy problem solving!

Requirements

Submit a working solution or as close to a working solution as pssible.  If you are unable to submit a fully working solution, please submit a prototype or design plan of your solution.

Submit all work completed during the competition that accurately represents your solution.  This can include anything you believe has a positive contribution to your solution.

At a minimum, you should include all that is in the judging criteria:

  • an exhibit table
  • a visual component
  • main goals & objectives
  • intended audience
  • challenges & obstacles
  • team overview

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Prizes

$3,000 in prizes
Judge's Choice
1 winner

Overall Winner
1 winner

Best in Category
3 winners

There will be one winner selected for each of the problem areas. These are transportation & sustainability, mental health & wellness at CMU, and the Student Experience at CMU.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Michael Kubit

Michael Kubit
T-Mobile: Higher Education Industry Segment Advisor

Marcie Otteman

Marcie Otteman
CMU: Executive Director of Alumni Relations

Loren Gracer

Loren Gracer
Greater Bay Health Systems: Director of IT

Kevin Campbell

Kevin Campbell
CMU: School of Broadcast & Cinematic Arts, Lecturer III

Matt Liesch

Matt Liesch
CMU: Department of Geography & Environmental Studies: Chairperson

Jesse Eickholt

Jesse Eickholt
CMU: Department of Computer Science Professor

Trey Stohlman

Trey Stohlman
CMU: School of Broadcast & Cinematic Arts

Shilpa Alamuri

Shilpa Alamuri
CMU: Department of Management

Judging Criteria

  • Exhibit Table
    Please have a table to display your work and your solution for judges to look at.
  • Visual Component
    Please have some sort of visual to represent your work. This could be a poster, a prototype, or anything you think best represents your solution.
  • Main Goals & Objectives
    What were your goals as a team? What is your solution trying to achieve?
  • Intended Audience
    Who will be impacted by your solution? What will the impact on these groups be?
  • Challenges & Obstacles
    What challenges or obstacles did your team face while coming up with your solution?
  • Team Overview
    Brief biography information, specific skills, involvement in developing the solution.

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