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#Welcome To The Hack The Dinos Challenge!
The challenge is a 24 hour solution-building event produced by AMNH's BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative focused on the intersection of computer science and science with an after-school program for high school girls and underrepresented youth. The challenge starts on Saturday, November 21st at 3pm and runs until Sunday, November 22nd at 6pm. Your team will have about 24 hours to build something that solves some (or all!) of a particular problem statement. You may even collaborate with several teams to work on different aspects of the same solution - Hack The Dinos is all about cooperation, not competition. The emphasis is on building working prototypes, not clickable demos; even if your project is incomplete, having a solid foundation to build upon will be a huge step forward for the advancement of paleontology and can benefit museums around the world.
Hack The Dinos is a special event - it is not a hackathon where teams will mashup a couple of APIs or build trivial toy apps that never get used. It is a pro bono collaboration with the museum to advance open science and create open-source solutions to real problems faced by scientists and researchers. The museum is asking for your help to start building long-needed open-source tools and applications that will aid the AMNH paleontology division in their research and education, which could ultimately help other museums and institutions as well.
We hope you’ll choose to spend the night with us at the museum -- we’ll have cots and a dedicated sleeping area (just bring your sleeping bag and pillow) if you need your rest -- but if not, you will be able to exit the museum Saturday night and return at 10am on Sunday.
There will also be family-friendly coding and data science talks and activity stations on Sunday from noon to 3pm. Demos will begin at 3pm and are open to the public! We hope you’ll want to invite friends, family, and coworkers to see what you’ve built. All Sunday activities are free with museum admission.
Good luck!
