Reporting on five years of hackathons at the American Museum of Natural History. The BridgeUP: STEM hackathons ran at the Museum from 2014 to 2019.

1. A Brief History Of AMNH
Hackathons
Presented by Mike Caprio
For the AMNH BridgeUP: STEM initiative
August 7, 2019

2. Hack the Universe
2014
Hack the Dinos
2015
Hack the Stacks
2016
Hack the Deep
2018
Hack the Solar System
2019

4. What Are We Doing?

5. Who Has Participated?
Department of Education
Ruth Cohen, Sr. Director, Education Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Yvonne De La Pena, Director, BridgeUP: STEM
Dr. Louise Crowley, Associate Dir., BridgeUP: STEM
Bella Desai, Director, Public Programs & Exhibition
Education
Soley Esteves, Manager, Public Programs
Vivian Trakinski, Director, Science Visualization Group
Nick Bartzokas, Assoc. Director, Sci Viz Group
Micah Acinapura, OpenSpace Integration Engineer, Sci
Viz Group
Division of Physical Sciences
Brian Abbot, Assistant Director Hayden Planetarium,,
Department of Astrophysics
Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization,
Department of Astrophysics
Dr. Denton Ebel, Curator of Meteorites, Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Dr. David Lindo-Atichati, Visiting Scientist, Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Kim Fendrich, Confocal Microscopy Specialist
Marina Gemma, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Samuel Alpert, Museum Specialist, Ph.D. student, CUNY
Graduate Center
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Dr. Estefania Rodriguez, Associate Curator, Cnidaria,
Crustacea, Other Invertebrate Phyla
Dr. Eunsoo Kim, Associate Curator, Protist Collection
Dr. Christine Johnson, Curatorial Associate, Collection
Management
Dr. Luciana Gusmao, Post-doctoral Researcher
Dr.Aaron A. Heiss, Post-doctoral Researcher
Division of Paleontology
Dr. Mark Norell, Division Chair and Macaulay Curator,
Curator-in-Charge
Dr. Melanie Hopkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate
Paleontology; Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder
Graduate School
Ruth O’Leary, Director of Collections,Archives and
Preparation
Information Technology
Juan Montes, Chief Information Officer
Michael Benedetto, Director of IT and Deputy CIO
Samuel Tran, Director
Sajesh Singh, Principal Systems Analyst
Paul Delong, System Administrator
Research Library
Thomas Baione, Harold Boeschenstein Director
Mai Reitmeyer, Senior Research Services Librarian
Rebecca Morgan, Special Collections Archivist
Gregory Raml, Special Collections Librarian
Iris Lee, Metadata Analyst, Project Archivist
Stacy Schiff, Visual Resources Librarian
Jennifer Cwiok, Digital Projects Manager
David Kohn, Director, Darwin Manuscripts Project
Digital / Communications
Eugenia Levenson, Senior Director, Editorial, Content
Roberto Lebron, Senior Director, Communications
Matthew Tarr, Director, Digital Architect
Ariana French, Director of Digital Technology
Josh Schnakenberg, Director of Digital Marketing &
Media Partnerships
Scott Rohan, Manager of Public Relations
Jena Leibowitz, Assistant Marketing Manager
Alex Gorski, Digital Technologist
Britney Fitzgerald, Social Media Manager
Corporate Relations
Grace Astrove, Asst. Director of Corporate Relations
Madeline Cook, Manager, Corporate Patron Program

6. What Have We Accomplished?
Created 129 open source projects for open science
44of which won awards and/or were selected for further development
Nearly 600technologists have participated
Almost 1300members on our AMNH technologist mailing list
Working with over 50Museum staff, curators, and scientists across multiple
Divisions and Departments.

7. Some Success Stories!

8. Thanks!
Mike Caprio
mcaprio@amnh.org @mik3caprio
Thanks to Iris Lee,Metadata Analyst, who created the
original template for this presentation for METROS
ilee@amnh.org @collidingIris
See results from all our events!
https://github.com/amnh/HackTheUniverse/wiki/
https://github.com/amnh/HackTheDinos/wiki/
https://github.com/amnh/HackTheStacks/wiki/
https://github.com/amnh/HackTheDeep/wiki/
https://github.com/amnh/HackTheSolarSystem/wiki/