⭐ROBOGALS X DSCUBED IMPACT HACKATHON⭐

👥 Hosted by clubs Robogals + DSCubed in partnership with leading technology consultancy Versent, this one-day hackathon is built for big ideas and bold action!

🧠 WHAT’S THE THEME?
Women In Stem: Education - how can we provide better resources, representation and mitigate barriers for women and other underrepresented communities who want to join STEM fields?

🗓️ WHEN AND WHERE?
🕘 9am–6pm, Saturday May 2nd
📍 Versent Office, Level 19/8 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC

WHY YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS IT:

  • 🏆$600 Prize Pool + Versent Merch + Robogals Frank Green bottles!

  • 🍽️ FREE Entry + Food

  • 🤖 Pre-event interactive workshop on Kiro and Replit on 29th April

  • 🧑‍🏫 All-day mentor support from Versent

  • 👕🎁 Swag + Hackathon Guidebook

  • 🧑‍⚖️ Judging by Versent Representatives

👯‍♀️ Teams of 2–4 people. Sign up with your mates OR register solo and we’ll match you up!

💬 No experience? No worries — this event is open to all university students of all programming levels from BEGINNER to EXPERIENCED.

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EVENT SCHEDULE:

8:50 AM - Check-in starts

9:20 AM - Icebreakers + Team Formations and Registration

9:45 AM - Hacking time STARTS + Figma workshop

10:30 AM - Pitch workshop

12:30 PM - Lunch provided

3:00 PM - Hacking time ENDS and you must submit to DevPost

3:15 PM - Presentation time

5:15 PM - Judging time

5:30 PM - Closing and award ceremony

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Underrepresented communities include:

  • Women and gender-diverse people
  • People of colour
  • People living in regional areas
  • People with disabilities
  • People from low socioeconomic backgrounds

Problem areas that you can explore:

  • Resources: “What do I need?” - accessibility to tools, information, programs, opportunities
  • Representation: “Can I see myself here?” - having mentors in the same shoes as those underrepresented students
  • Barriers: “What’s stopping me?” - awareness, navigating barriers to entry, including financial, cultural, and communal
  • Any other problem areas that you can think of

 

 

Requirements

Technical Tracks

Choose from one of two technical tracks:

Track 1: No-code Prototype

  • No coding needed, just show us your idea visually, like a PowerPoint and Figma. There’s a Figma workshop on at 9:45-10:30 -- we’ll guide you to the room.

  • Example: If your idea is a mobile app, you can use Figma to design the UI/UX and walk us through how it works

Track 2: Code Prototype

  • Build a simple version of your idea: a product that addresses a problem area

  • Example of a bare-bones app demo: code that doesn't necessarily need a working user interface -- just show us the logic of it working, e.g. run the code and sample tests/inputs, and show us the output in the terminal

  • You may use Kiro and Replit to speed up coding your prototype, but you don’t have to. There is a recording of the Kiro/Replit workshop from Wednesday.

  • Your prototype doesn’t have to be complete. We just want to see your first version, your concept brought to life. You can demo your product as a video.

EDUCATION STAGE

Specify what stage(s) in the education pipeline your solution addresses:

  1. Early education
  2. Primary school
  3. High school
  4. Undergraduate/VET
  5. Post-grad / Entry Level Career
  6. Early-Mid Career Researcher / Mid Career
  7. Professor / Senior career

What to Submit

Submit to DevPost:

Must-have 2 things:

  • 1) Pitchdeck (in pdf or pptx format) AND

  • 2) Figma link/sketches OR Code, depending on your chosen technical track

    • No-code track: Figma link OR paper sketches with notations about how the design components work & interact with each other

    • Code track: Zipped folder OR Github repo link to your code

Optional 3) video link showing how your product works.

In either technical track, you will be presenting your pitchdeck to the judges to show how your idea and product work.

Pitchdeck template

  1. Title Slide: Product name, team name and members, technical track, and targeted stage(s) in the education pipeline.
  2. Problem and Target Audience: Clearly define the problem area that your product addresses. Detail the specific underrepresented communities affected by the problem.
  3. Solution Overview: Introduce your solution and its key features.
  4. Tech Implementation: Discuss the technologies or methods that your product uses.
  5. User Experience: Showcase the user interface and interaction flow. 
    • No-code track: Figma / sketch demo 
    • Code track: Product demo (can be video)
  6. Impact and Vision: Outline the anticipated outcomes and benefits of your solution.

 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$600 in prizes
Best overall in No-code Track
$200 in cash
1 winner

$200 and merch

Best overall in Code Track
$200 in cash
1 winner

$200 and merch

Best First-Timers
$100 in cash
1 winner

$100 and Merch

People's Choice
$100 in cash
1 winner

$100 and Merch

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Lauren Jones

Lauren Jones
Strategic Discovery Consultant @ Telstra

Tim Hope

Tim Hope
CTO @ Versent

Pratibha Rana

Pratibha Rana
Cloud Architect @ Slalom

Vanitha Kaliyaperumal

Vanitha Kaliyaperumal
Lead Engineer @ Versent

Judging Criteria

  • Impact
    Does it provide a different and compelling solution for the community? Does it have a quantified material real-world impact on underrepresented communities?
  • Innovation
    Does your idea bring new energy and fresh perspective?
  • Completeness
    Has your idea been considered from end to end?
  • Feasibility
    Does the project have a reasonable chance of success or possible pathway forward to implementation and delivery to market?
  • Relevance
    Does your project address the problem statement?
  • Final pitch
    How well can you justify your ideas and decision-making?

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