International Women’s Day Hackathon 2016

Event Date : 27.03.16

Event Venue : Maditssia Hall Madurai

Event type : Full Day Event

Event Description : The objective of the event is to conduct a regional pitch event for Technovation challenge 2016 participants in this region. The event provides opportunity for all students to pitch their idea.

Event Agenda:

• 9:30 to 10:00     Registration
• 10:00 to 10:15    Welcome Note
• 10:15 to 11:15       Panel Discussion
• 11:15 to 12:15        Competition
• 11:30 to 12:30      Chief Guest Speech
• 12:30 to 1:15         Interactive Games & Quiz
• 1:15 to 2:00           Lunch
• 2:00 to 3:15           Design Sprint
• 3:15 to 3:30           Tea & Networking
• 3:30 to 5:00         Technovation School Pitch
• 5:00 to 5:30          Result & prize distribution
• 5:30 to 5:45          Photos session
• 5:45 to 6:00         Thanking Note

Event Tag:      #gdgmdu

Event Banner:  

Registration Form URL:   https://www.tinyurl.com/iwdhmdu2016

Event Site:

Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/Metoomentor/events/229660677/

Speaker Details:

• Mrs: Anantha Soruba Santhi Principal of  Sethurajan Padma Higher Secondary School
• Ms. D. Thajun Nisha Proprietor of Dream East Company
• Dr. R . Madhu Meena Owner of Madhu Meena’s Stop and Shop Collections
• Ms. Sana RJ Suryan FM
• Mr. Balaji Babu Validation Engineer at UST Global
• Mr. Senthil Kumar Senior Research Engineer Qualcomm

Few statistics:

# Online Registration	46
# Participants Invited	100
# On Spot Registration	72
# Women Participants	83

Event Report:

• We invited 70% School Students and 30% Professional developers,
• We had 70% Women Participation.
• We were live with Hash tag:  #gdgmdu on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
• We have shortlisted 19 school teams for International Womens Day Hackathon 2016 participation.
• We formed Individual Drawing/ Painting Competition for participants on the theme of Women in Technology.
• The winners and runners of Drawing/ Painting Competition got the swags and goodies
• We formed 12 groups for design sprint and asked the students and developers to come up with a story board and prototype for Swachh bharat Abiyan, The response was fantastic
• The event provides opportunity to 17 technovation teams from various schools to pitch their idea.
• We gave swags and goodies to 17 technovation teams.
• The winners of the Quiz got the swags and goodies

 Design Sprint:

Drawing Competition Theme – Women in Technology

Gallery:

 

Edited by  – Andal Mariappan

 

Google Study Jam 2016 KickOff

 

Event Report

• We invited 90% Student developers and 10% Professional developers,
• We had 60% Women Participation.
• We were live with Hash tag: #gdgmadurai, #gdgmadustudyjam on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
• We have shortlisted 100 students for Study Jam 2016 participation.
• Students registered  in udacity study jam program.
• We translated the video contents to Tamil to enable more people understand the course.
• We formed 12 groups and asked the students to come up with all their doubts and question in a quiz format.
• The winners of the Quiz got the swags and goodies

Few statistics:

# Participants Registered	100
# Participants Invited	100
# Participants Attended	84
# Women Participants	50

 

Participant’s details here

Gdrive URL: https://goo.gl/KKv8Pe

Registration:

tinyurl.com/mdustudyjams

Event Site:

Meetup.com : http://www.meetup.com/Metoomentor/events/228914477/

Google Plus Event: https://goo.gl/aehzE3

Outcome

• Developers/students able to take the Android for Beginners course. The should be able to study as a group for the online course.

 

Event Photos:

https://goo.gl/85wIzr

Agenda

Time	Session	Speaker
9:30 – 10:00 Am	Registration
10:00  – 10:30 Am	Introduction about StudyJam	Senthilkumar M
10.30  to 11:00 Am	Registration for Udacity Study Jam
11:00  – 11:15 Am	Offline content distribution.
11:15 – 12:00 AM	Course Overview	Senthilkumar M
12:00 – 1:00 PM	Watching the course Videos
1:00 – 1:30 PM	Networking & snacks