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Full Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 — Kickoff Day!

 📍Mackenzie Room (Top Floor)

• 3:30–4:00 PM – Registration

• !! 4:00-5:00 PM — Opening Ceremony + Official Hacking Begins 🎤 !!

• 5:00-6:00 PM— Workshop: Google Earth Engine 101 🏗️

• 6:00–8:00 PM — Reception (with food!) 🍽️
  
  

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 — Hack Day!

 📍Mackenzie Room (Top Floor)

• 9:00 AM — Breakfast 🥐

• 9:00 – 11:00 AM — Mentorship Block A

• 11:00–12:00 PM — 🌍 Panel: From Stanford Research to Startup 

• 12:00–1:00 PM — Lunch 🌯

• 1:00 – 3:00 PM — Mentorship Block B

• 3:00 PM — Snacks

• 3:00–3:45 PM —🍀Panel: From Climate Data to Climate Action 

• 3:45–4:00 PM — Dance Break

• 4:00 – 5:00 PM — Mentorship Block C

• !! 5:00 PM — Project Submission Due 🚨 !!

• !! 5:00–7:00 PM — Demos & Judging 💻 !!

• 6:00–7:00 PM — Dinner 🥗

• 7:00–8:00 PM — Awards & Closing 🏆

• Relevant Sustainability Challenge Addressed (0–10 points)
  How clearly and effectively does the project tackle a pressing environmental or sustainability issue? Weight: 25%
• Creativity (0–10 points)
  Description: We want hackers to create a project that makes you say “wow.”
• Technical Feasibility (0–10 points)
  Description: In only 22 hours, hackers manage to build projects with remarkably complex infrastructures. Despite this crunch, we hope to see beautiful code or hardware under the hood.
• Pathways for Scale & Impact (0–10 points)
  Description: How feasible and scalable is the solution beyond the hackathon?