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HACKINGEDU TRAINING DAY
“We now live in a modern era where we have access to the internet right in our pockets, which
eliminates the need for schools [teach us to regurgitate] facts, and instead teach us critical thinking
skills and project based reasoning skills.”~ Michelle Vo, UCLA
EVENT OVERVIEW
Over 400 students gathered at PayPal Town hall to see Keynote speakers, Guillermo Rauch (Founder,
Socket.io) & Jacob Thornton (Founder, Twitter Bootstrap), to learn from our 12 workshops, win
prizes, and gain valuable tools for our main hackathon October 23-25.
WHY WE EXIST
At our Hackathon, over 1000 hackers will battle for 36 hours to create revolutionary products that will
redefine the education system. We are providing the launchpad for students to invent the future of
education and reinstate a new code for education practices.
WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
At other hackathons, students have trouble coming up with meaningful ideas. At HackingEDU, students
come because they want to revolutionize education. This massive collaboration of ideas and
implementation will bring about change to the education system as a whole.
KEY STATISTICS
NUMBER OF TOTAL APPLICATIONS: 1503
NUMBER OF ATTENDEES: 412
NUMBER OF SPEAKERS: 12
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: GUILLERMO RAUCH
(FOUNDER, SOCKET.IO) & JACOB THORNTON
(FOUNDER, TWITTER BOOTSTRAP)
FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS: 800+
TWITTER FOLLOWERS: 600+
SOCIAL MEDIA REACH: 106,082
(PRE-EVENT)
COMPLETE LIST OF SPONSORS:
CHEGG, AUTOMATTIC, IBM, PAYPAL,
PEBBLE, LEAP MOTION, MAKE SCHOOL,
TWILIO, TWIST BIOSCIENCE, DRAPER
UNIVERSITY, TWITTER BOOTSTRAP,
NAMECHEAP, SOCKET.IO, EDSURGE, GOOGLE,
FIREBASE, THALMIC LABS, GUN, RED BULL,
LYFT, BRAINTREE_DEV
PARTNER HACKATHONS: LA HACKS,
NWHACKS, PEARL HACKS