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Invitation to SkyHack at Kent State University

SkyHack is a weekend long event in which students will come together to provide a solution to a challenge or “pain point” relating to the aviation industry. The solution may be a procedure, an idea, an app, a “widget,” an article of clothing, etc. The students arrive (Kent State Kent campus) on a Friday afternoon Nov. 1, form teams, decide which challenge they want to spend the weekend on and present their idea to judges on Sunday morning, Nov. 3. The grand prize is $10,000 (supplied by BDM), but we also award $1,000 to each of the challenge winning teams.

https://www.kent.edu/SkyHack/what-is-SkyHack

Participation

  • Students from any college or university with any major may participate
  • It is strongly recommended that students bring a resume. A resume book will be given to the top sponsors.
  • Students may come with a team or form a team when they arrive
  • Each team will choose a challenge it will work on during the weekend
  • The event is FREE to participants

Resources: Participants will have access to supplies and labs within ATB although bringing your own laptop or tablet is highly recommended. Mentors and industry experts will be on hand to offer assistance.

Accommodations: There will be spaces in ATB designated as quiet areas for participants who wish to sleep, but no other sleeping accommodations will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring sleeping bags.

Food is provided throughout the weekend.

Participants will have access to the Student Recreation and Wellness Center (showers, exercise equipment, etc.) for the weekend.

There may be some travel reimbursement funds available for participants who are not from the area.

More information is at the link above and here:  https://www.skyhackksu.com/

In October 2017, Burton D. Morgan (BDM) Foundation sponsored the inaugural SkyHack –hackathon event. We had 120 college students from 14 different universities and 4 different states. A link to the projects from that event are on the webpage: https://www.kent.edu/SkyHack

To Mentor/judge register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gaIvu8F_87mCy85vkKgCeC7pFQhaHdmRvfCAYfwD_ag/

All majors are welcome.

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