Purpose

We want to bring awareness and change to our community through coding and hacking.

We aim to participate in multiple hackathons throughout the year. We will learn basic low-code hackathon skills and discuss potential social hacking projects during our weekly meet.

When and where do we meet

Meetings will be held weekly on an agreed upon time, mostly virtual. However, we will have in-person meetings on the third Tuesday of every month. We will either discuss a hackathon skill and learn it together, or discuss a social issue (such as education, health, climate change, inequality, etc) and how to solve it with technologies.

Please contact Darren Weng or Gabriel Weng to be added to the newsletter distribution and Discord server.

Date/Time : after school monthly on Tuesdays; weekly virtual meets

Discord: Join

Teacher : Mr Shepro

Newsletter: Subscribe

Club Achievements this school year

• Won Third Place at RoboHacks 2 with Chiron.
• Won First Place at ROBOHackIT 2022 with CiceroAI.
• Won First Place at MetroHacks 2022 with Aesculapius, a Healthcare chatbot.

What we did

In our first year, we managed to

• Publish a weekly newsletter that highlights the social issues and different technologies involved in hackathons
• Win the Most Innovative Award in PrideHack II with solutions that use Web3 and DAOs on blockchains to empower grassroots advocacy to change the world to be more inclusive. to make LGBTQ+ activism more accessible, equitable, and ultimately more impactful.
• Win 1st Place at Lockheed Martin Code Quest 2022 Advanced Division.
• Two members also interned at Harvard’s Coronavirus Visualization Team in the summer.

What we plan to do

This year, we plan to:

• Continue to publish a bi-weekly newsletters.
• Compete at Lockheed Martin Code Quest 2023.
• Recruit new members.
• Continue to host weekly virtual meets.
• Each month, we will focus on one project that addresses an social issue, currently we have the following areas in mind:
  • Education – college and social mobility
  • Inequality – zip code and economic data
  • Climate Change – electricity usage prediction
  • Bioinformatics – Solve some DNA puzzle with coding
  • Blockchain and Democracy – e.g. Secured and anomalous voting
  • Microaggression - Use NLP to analyze conversations on chat platforms