CodeRED Casestudy
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The document summarizes a hackathon called CodeRED that was managed using the HackerEarth Sprint tool. Over 800 people attended the event, with over 300 participating in the 24-hour hackathon. HackerEarth Sprint allowed organizers to easily collect submissions, organize the data, and evaluate entries. The organizer praised HackerEarth Sprint for streamlining the logistics and reducing complexity. Key stats included 313 attendees, 113 teams, 55 hacks submitted, and 12 winners chosen by 49 judges.
CodeRED Casestudy
- 1. CodeRED Case Study About Code Red CodeRED is a bi-annual Hackathon conducted by University of Hous- ton. This was the second edition of the Hackathon, the first one was conducted in the summer. This second edition was slated to be much larger and the scale attracted sponsorship from the likes of Pros.com, Microsoft, BlueChasm, Chevron, SSL.com and many more. The HackerEarth Sprint advantage HackerEarth Sprint’s value proposition is simple- to simplify and opti- mise the registration, communication, submissions and evaluations processes of a hackathon. It does so in the following ways- Dedicated page hosted on HackerEarth- This page allows participants to register prior to the Hackathon, and organizers can use this page to keep registered participants updated with various aspects of the hack- athon, like rules, FAQs, Prizes and announcements https://codered.hackerearth.com/ Submissions- Participants can easily submit their hacks through the submission page, that collects all relevant information like source code, screenshots, demo etc. Organized submissions data- All submissions are available to organizers in a clear and usable format and can be exported in a spreadsheet format, for offline use. Easy evaluation- You can award the prizes to each candidate in an easy check box manner, based on their evaluation. Seamless communication- The HackerEarth Sprint tool has a built in dis- cussion form, to allow candidates communicate with each other and to keep them updated during the hackathon. With any hackathon which has over a 100 participants, collecting sub- missions, shortlisting and evalua- tion becomes a constraint. Submis- sions data is unorganized and bring- ing them together on one platform is a task in itself. This affects the quality of the hackathon in three ways- It becomes too time consuming to collect all the hacks submitted by the participating teams. Manual process also adds to overall chaos. Evaluation is based on the oratory and presentation skills of the partic- ipants and less so on the coding ability of the team. It becomes difficult to gauge how much of the hack was performed at the Hackathon itself, as the source code is not submitted for evaluation in most hackathons The CodeRED organizers chose HackerEarth Sprint as the hack- athon management tool to collect submissions and conduct evalua- tion. The Problem Statement University of Houston fall hackathon, CodeRED Liftoff successfully conducted it’s biggest hackathon yet, using HackerEarth Sprint. Over 800 people attend- ed the event, and over 300 people participated in the 24 hour hackathon. The entire process of submission and judging was seamlessly managed using HackerEarth Sprint.
- 2. The Benefit The Hackathon organizers’ ease in using the product validates it like no other. Aaron Dancer, the organizer of the CodeRED Hackathon said this about HackerEarth Sprint- "HackerEarth Sprint is a fantastic tool for hackathon organizers. It seriously streamlines many event logistics and is much more functional than similar solutions. HackerEarth Sprint seriously helped reduce the amount of complexity in running our event. It took all of the functionality we needed, and bundled it into an easy to use solution." CodeRED in numbers Submissions breakdown Conducting a Hackathon? Use HackerEarth Sprint https://www.hackerearth.com/recruit/sprint/ 800 12 Winners 313 Attendees Hackathon Participants Teams Hacks 113 55 Trivia- This hackathon had a total of 49 judges, all of whom evaluated every app individually, and seamlessly arrived at a final list of 12 winners. 7- Education 17- Big Data 13- Internet of Things 3- Healthcare 14- Productivity https://www.hackerearth.com/recruit/sprint/