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DigiEduHack

UNIMIB – University of Milan-Bicocca

Participant

Guide and Info Package

Congratulations!

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Welcome to DigiEduHack!With over 50 simultaneous events throughout the world, you really are a part of something amazing. Shaping the future of education never has been so global, fun, and interactive.

In order to maximize your hackathon experience, please familiarize yourself with following info:

1. How to be a good contestant aka DigiEduHacker

2. Final Pitches and Evaluation criteria

3. DigiEduHack key contact list

4. DigiEduHack Program

5. Venue and logistics info

6. Ultrahack official Rules

7. Post event

8. Final Award

9. Solution uploading

JOIN SLACK NOW!

Multi-event communications will happen via slack. Mentoring, participant communication and practical information will be shared to all from all nodes with simultaneous events.

Get connected via: https://join.slack.com/t/digieduhack/shared_invite/enQtNzM3OTY2NzgzOTU3LWZlZGZiNGVjMjdkNTJhNzZmYTE3OWE1NmU2OWE1ZGViNWNkM2I4YWRhZGY4ZGVlN2RhYjA2NWE4ZjRlNzc2NzQ

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1.How to be as a good contestant

Before the event

- If you require additional team members, it’s good to try find like minded friends, classmates, colleagues and invite them to the event. Matchmaking will be facilitated before the opening of the event.

- Inform organizers of any changes to your team and/or participation to the event.

- Ensure you have confirmed your onsite participation to enable us to have enough food and drink (especially coffee) for all.

- Get Hacking Now!! - Continue to brainstorm and develop your idea so that during the event the intensive hacking can focus on the mentor’s guidance to fit the challenge better.

- Check out the e-Learning course at https://digieduhack.com/elearning

During the event

- Be active and sell yourself and your ideas to other contestants, mentors, judges and event attendees.

- You do not have to be alone – network. The next person you meet could be the initiator for your future success!

- Ask help from the partner mentors, other mentors, other contestants and hackathon staff.

- Be curious, utilize resources you find, think outside the box and listen to the inspirational keynotes for a greater understanding of the challenges.

- Share and tweet #digieduhack #ultrahack #hackathon and other event/partner hashtags to increase your project’s visibility.

- Be respectful toward everyone else and do not HUI (hack under influence). Harassment in any form will not be tolerated. Should you feel you are the victim of harassment please contact: Maddalena Bianchi, maddalena.bianchi@unimib.it, +39-02-64487448.

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- Appreciate the diversity within your team take the opportunity to learn from it and use it to drive your project forward.

- Prepare your presentations and demo with focus on the evaluation criteria found later in this document. The focus on the demo is to highlight to partners the readiness for entry into future opportunities such as pilots or partnering.

- Do not be frightened by the ROFR paragraph (right of first refusal). It is the show of good will between you and the challenge partner. It means that cannot negotiate a deal regarding your solution for 3 months after the finals with other parties. Ask us if there are any queries.

- Familiarize yourself with the detailed schedule. Know where to be and when.

Accommodation

- There will be a resting area onsite. Participants are expected to bring their own pillow and sleeping bag.

- Alternative accommodation will not be covered by the organizers.

What to bring along? Contestant material requirements:

- Personal hygiene items

- Pillow and sleeping bag for comfortable resting.

- Laptop, chargers, any special laptop to screen connectors and travel adapters.

- Towel is a must and your bathing suit (if not keen on Finnish sauna fashion) if you wish to avail of sauna.

Good to Know:

- Although it is valuable for all team members to be at the venue as much as possible to avail of the mentor’s expertise, and to soak up the atmosphere, teams must have at the least 1 team representative onsite at all times if possible, especially the final pitching.

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2. Final Pitches and Evaluation criteria

Final Pitching

● Time - 5min + 2min Q&A

● Content

o See evaluation criteria below

● Tip: briefly (10-15 secs) explain the challenge you are solving. Using 1-2 mins to explain the problem takes valuable time from key information.

● Be relevant, stay focused, be concise.

● Structure

o Structure is up to the team. Examples:

● 3 min pitch 2 min demo ● 5 mins pitch and demo combined ● 2-3min demo and 2-3 min pitch ● Straight pitch no demo ● Video embedded to the pitch

Tips

● Be prepared – a good opportunity to perfect your pitch is to attend the pitching workshop and get some great hints to pitching for success.

● Practice – following on from preparation and closely aligned is practicing your pitch. Timing, technical aspects, flow and stage presence of the pitcher are a few suggestions to focus on. Don’t be afraid to ask a mentor or one of the crew to observe and mentor your pitching technique/content.

o Bonus tip: Be aware of who you are pitching too. Try to reduce or eliminate reading from the slides behind you but engage with your audience.

● Test technical – prior to commencing, ensure all connections from own laptop are available. Ensure smooth transition for videos. Ensure demo functions and in the best case can be tested by the judges if requested.

● Don’t Panic – a mistake is never the end of a great opportunity, take a second, breathe and begin where you left off. Even the pro’s make errors.

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General Evaluation Criteria

(Final pitching will be judged on these criteria)

Criteria Description Min/Max Score

Relevance The extent to which the team shows a good understanding of the context related to the challenge taken into consideration and the potential factors of success for a solution addressing it.

10 out of 20

Quality The extent to which the solution identified addresses the challenge effectively by considering the context where it will be implemented, and the target group needs. This includes an analysis of the added value and impact that the solution may have on the context and the target group.

10 out of 20

Originality The extent to which the solution is an original and novel idea, having some elements of innovativeness compared to what already available in the education sector and the market.

10 out of 20

Feasibility The extent to which the solution implementation is feasible and its description includes an assessment of the practicality to implement it in a given context.

10 out of 20

Transferability The extent to which the suggested solution could be used and applied in another context.

5 out of 10

Sustainability The extent to which the team addresses the sustainability of the solution in the short-medium and long term.

5 out of 10

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TOTAL 50 out of 100

Mentoring will also focus on:

● Ease of Use — How intuitive is the end-user experience? Would the intended end-user find the Application easy to use and understand?

● Potential impact – How much of an effect is the Application going to have on the market, economy, science, education etc.?

● Marketability – How marketable is the Application?

● Code convention and documentation - If the team has used open source code, is it shown? Has the team following coding standards? Does the code demonstrate what it’s proposed to do? Is the project and code being developed over the event period?

● Overall Quality—Is the Application practical and useful? Is this a tool that could be easily implemented? Should Challenge providers consider using the application as designed, or to inform its own internal decisions based on this application’s features?

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3. DigiEduHack Key Contact List

Production Team (Title, Role, Email, Phone number). Feel free to contact relevant persons with queries you may have prior to or during the event.

Prof. Elisabetta Marafioti, DigiEduHack Coordinator, elisabetta.marafioti@unimib.it, +39-02-64487448

Dott. Maddalena Bianchi, DigiEduHack Event Manager, maddalena.bianchi@unimib.it, +39-02-64487448

Dott. Ginevra Villa, DigiEduHack Marketing Manager, ginevra.villa@unimib.it, +39-02-64487448

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4.DigiEduHack Program

The program is jam packed with amazing keynotes to inspire your project and some down time to network, all the while hacking and creating your masterpiece for pitching to the jury.

Thursday 03.10

● 10.00 Doors opening - ○ Welcome session ○ History and purpose of the event ○ DigiEduHack movie ○ Introducing the challenge

● 11.00 Pitching participants' ideas ● 11.30 Ideation process and brainstorming ● 12.00 Team formation/Team building ● 12.50 GLOBAL DIGIEDUHACK STARTS ● 13.00 Lunch ● Inspiring and motivational keynotes (Live streamed from the main stage event from

14.00 EEST. Recordings available via the mainstage event page ) ○ CHRISTINA RIESEN; THE (INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP) LEARNING EXPERIENCE ○ MARK BROWN; LEARNING SPACES & PEDAGOGIES ○ LINDA CASTAÑEDA; DIGITAL COMPETENCES & CAPABILITIES ○ RUI COUTINHO; ACCESS & AVAILABILITY ○ ILKKA NIEMELÄ; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR EDUCATION ○ THE BEST FUTURE SKILLS FOR CHILDREN AND CITIZENS IN KAUNIAINEN ○ UNTIL TALK ○ Laura Mariani - Hackaplanning ○ Other Skills workshops on business and technical topics ○ Soft skills training

● 16.30 Teams work on developing their ideas, mentors to help with challenge solving ● 17.30 Pitch training ● 18.30 Midway hack checkpoint - Review in challenge areas ● 19.15 Yoga session ● 20.00 Dinner ● 22.00 Calling DigiEduHack main host in Finland ● 22.30 Teams work on developing their ideas ● 23.45 Night mode hacking

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Friday 04.10

● 8.00 Breakfast &Yoga?/Mindfulness? ● 9.00 Presentation and Evaluation of the ideas ● 10.40 End of Digieduhack keynote and judges deliberation ● 11.15 Award and wrap-up

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5. Venue and logistics info

SAMSUNG DISTRICT – SAMSUNG SMART ARENA

VIA MIKE BONGIORNO, 9

MILANO

Public Transport & Parking Link to public transport pages: www.atm.it Nearest Metro stop: M3 Repubblica or M2/M5 Garibaldi Buses: Line 60 Parking: Parking is available in the streets around the venue.

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Venue Plan SAMSUNG SMART ARENA

SAMSUNG SMART HOME

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6. Official Rules DigiEduHack will be held under the main competition rules of Ultrahack events. All participants are bound by the rules before, during and after the event. Link to Main Rules: https://ultrahack.org/rules 7. Post hack What next? We encourage you to continue working on your project. We would hope that your DigiEduHack experience has been a valuable one, not only benefiting your project but also educational and inspiring personal and professional growth. Further events - There are many other events of value to all within our community and with partners, whether it be workshops, meetups, innovation tournaments or more hackathons. Bring your idea along and develop it further at the next event and with the right connections, so get out there, network and find new mentors could be the boost it needs. 8. Final award

After the end of the DigiEduHack, the Steering Group will look at the winning solutions identified by the local juries (1 per location) and select 10-12 solutions, which stand out for innovativeness and quality. Every solution will be reviewed by two members of the Steering Group, plus a third one if the there is great disparity between their evaluations. The selection of the finalists by the Steering Group will be done in agreement with the awarding criteria described. During the selection process, the Members of the Steering Group will also look for a balance in terms of Digital Education Action Plan priority, geographical coverage, type of education institution involved. The objective is to ensure variability and have finalists coming from different educational levels and countries who have been working on different topics.

After the 10-12 finalists will be announced on the DigiEduHack website, the public will have the possibility to vote for their preferred solutions through an online app linked to the DigiEduHack website. The three teams getting the majority of the public votes in a week time will be announced as winners.

The European Commission will organise an award ceremony during one of the upcoming events, possibly before the end of the year or in 2020 or early 2021.

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9. Solution uploading All teams need to upload their solution on the digieduhack.com website before the event is over. The questions will consist of the ones on this solution canvas. Keep these questions in mind when working on the challenge and finding your solution to it.