About the challenge
The Designathon is a global academic competition that brings together college and high school student engineers to leverage creativity, architecture, finance, and engineering to design a school playground. It will take place from October 8th - October 18th! Register and join us for one-and-a-half week of playground designing and team bonding! Only the first and last days are required to attend, as we know students will have class during the week. However, throughout the week there are many opportunities to join workshops with our mentors and speakers.
During the event, you can receive support from mentors at top universities and the wonderful organizing team, compete for prizes, and join a Discord server with like-minded individuals. Civiso will hold workshops with guest speakers or mentors to help you out through the duration of the competition. These are professionals from Harvard and various other institutions with tons of playground building experience! The ultimate goal is to build the winning playground in an underfunded NYC elementary school that currently does not have a playground!
Get started
Please fill out this google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT2ipANLuE7OT_NlZXaC5HEnArintaCdJItFJIM5zpuQvRIg/viewform
Requirements
What to Build
- A blueprint/design for a playground using any conventional software of your choice. The design should be 20 ft x 20 ft to 50 ft x 50 ft and meet our Safety Guidelines, which can be found under our Resources on our notion page. Each design will be based on the following factors: Aesthetic, Feasibility/Budget, Safety, Appeal, and Creativity.
Submit a link/image of the finalized blueprint
Prizes
Voiceflow Team License
6 months free of the Voiceflow team plan
Echo 3D Business Plan
Taskade Lifetime Upgrade
$60/year of lifetime upgrades. (Valued for the next 20 years)
Taskade 5 year upgrade
$60/year for 5 years.
Leading Learners Ed Tech Bundle
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Sanober Khan
Designer at Urbahn Architects
Cecilia Martinez
Senior Architect at Grimshaw
Jennifer Nitzky
ISA certified arborist, Design Principal at Studio HIP
Judging Criteria
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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