& Professor Ron Johnston
Challenges
are now live!
Watch Hack Live
We are 100% Digital this year. We will be broadcasting the entire hackathon LIVE from Hack Live studios in Sydney, with weekend long LIVE coverage from our Hackathon Hub.
Kicking off 4pm Friday 21st July, our 50 hour stream will broadcast The Welcome Ceremony, Challenge Announcement, Presentations, Daily Reviews, Awards and The Top 10 Finalists Announcement!
Join Us Online or In Person
The 2023 Hackathon is a hybrid event. There will be 1 in-real-life location that all participants can participate from. They also have the option of participating online, utilizing the live-stream on the website and Slack.
The location is: University of Sydney
- Grand foyer of J03 Building, Engineering Precinct University of Sydney.
- This building is located behind the Seymour Centre and shares a car park.
- Best parking is Shepherd Street Car Park. 116 Shepherd St. Darlington, NSW 2008
Prize Set
Winning team’s member will receive
a UNSDG Pin.
1st Place – RedR Ron Johnston Rapid Response
- $5,000, to be split evenly between each team member.
- “Professor Ron Johnston Prize in Humanitarian Innovation” medallion, in a case for each team member.
Second Place – Hackathon Innovation Runner Up Prize
- $3,000, to be split evenly between each team member.
Third Place – Hackathon Innovation 3rd Prize
- $1,000, to be split evenly between each team member.
Solarobotix Prize – Best use of digital technologies
- $1,000, to be split evenly between each team member
will you need this year?
AwardStage is the Awards Portal for 2023. Submissions are to be made ONLY through this portal.
• Only one submission for each team in the Hackathon Category will be accepted. Teams are not to submit multiple entries.
• The “Team Captain” must register in the Award Portal.
• The rest of the team’s details are added when the Entry is created.
• All hackathon participants are encouraged to utilize the Slack tools for communication and collaboration.
• All information is available on this website.
4pm – Opening Ceremony Commencement
4:30pm – Mini Challenge: Make a Team Promo
5:30pm – Hackathon Challenges Announcement
7pm – Make a Team Promo Winner Announcement
9am – Official Kickoff
9am – Mini Moment: How to make a video
5pm – Closing Saturday
9am – Official Kickoff
12pm – Submissions Due
12:15pm – Dj Beth Yen
1:50pm – Welcome to the Judges
2pm – Top 10 finalists Announcement
3pm – Winners Announced & Closing Ceremony
Pick Your Team
Deadline Midnight Tuesday 18th July
Please keep in mind that all team members must register individually. Once registered, you’ll be asked to assign yourself to a team.
Don’t worry if you’re flying solo, we’ll place you into a fun and dedicated team to work with.
• National and international university students domiciled in Australia or New Zealand/The Pacific Islands and studying at a university.
• Entries are limited to undergraduate students.
• Entrants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility under these rules as a part of their application for entry. Example of evidence is a university ID card.
• An individual may only participate in a single team. She/he cannot work across multiple teams.
• Students must register as individuals. However, after registration, students can form their own teams of 3-4 students.
Submissions
Video Criteria
- Video Submission Guidelines
- File Format (mp4 is best)
- Wide frame orientation – (No Reel/Story/Tiktok orientation)
- File size 500-600mbs
- Maximum 5 mins
- File name must be Team Number (with) A, B & C Challenge – Team Name
Submission Link – https://www.dropbox.com/request/Jz0BPe0JWiv5EIuXbKzh
- Must address all the Evaluation Criteria.
- Must be no more than 5-minutes in duration.
- Can be in any video format the entrant team deems appropriate, such as presentation, speaking slideshow, animation, etc.
Evaluation Criteria
Submissions must be concise and demonstrate capacity to market an idea effectively. While there is no restriction on the scale of the submission, entrants should consider the judges as clients who expect to be able to grasp the merits of the ideas quickly.
Judges will have regard to the quality of submissions across all of the criteria.
Evaluation criteria of presentation will include, the degree to which the humanitarian innovation developed during the hackathon:
- Addresses the problem(s) set for consideration;
- Uses engineering skills, humanitarian knowhow and technologies;
- Is original, novel and inventive.
- Is environmentally sound and sustainable;
- Is practical including in respect to cost, for the target community or persons;
- Is deliverable by an organisation such as RedR;
- Considers the effects of the solution on vulnerable populations such as gender, disability, elderly, very young.
In making their evaluation, the Judges will take account of the appropriateness of the team composition.
An actual demonstration or other proof of practicality of the solution will be highly considered.
our Judges
Judging
All entries will be reviewed during the Preliminary Judging round. This judges for this round are taken from the mentor group. From this round, the top 10 Final entries will be identified. These 10 entries will progress to the Final Judging round.
2023 Final Judging Panel
A judging panel of eminent members from the Australian community with experience in the delivery of humanitarian assistance has been established by The University of Sydney. A formal assessment methodology will be used.
No discussion of any kind will be entered into after presentation by entrants nor will further clarifications be sought by the judges prior to making their decision.
The decision of the Judging panel is final and not appealable in any way.
The 2023 Final Judging panel consists of the following members:
& Social Posts
social media!
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I’m participating in the 2023 Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon! Find out how you can participate! bit.ly/hack-live
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The #HumanitarianInnovationHackathon is a weekend-long event designed for all Australian and Pacific Island university students to work collaboratively, in cross-discipline teams, to create technology-driven solutions for the most pressing #humanitarian challenges.
Participants are asked to identify practical solutions for real and current problems, from a current international humanitarian response context. The HIA Hackathon runs from 21-23 July 2023.
bit.ly/hack-live for more information
#HumanitarianInnovationHackathon #hack2023 #usyd #engineersydney
Intellectual Property
The entrants retain ownership of their designs.
The entrants license the University of Sydney to use and modify for use their photographs, video and any written content as a part of
promoting the program Awards and the winners.