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A Hackathon is a competition where students do not<br />
actually hack (and potentially unlock secrets in the deep<br />
dark web) -- instead, it is a place for participants to work<br />
in groups and design a software application related to a<br />
theme, before pitching their business model to a panel of<br />
judges. Keynote speeches and workshops are also<br />
included to inspire competitors, with content ranging from<br />
digital transformation, technical coding skills and<br />
marketing.<br />
Our CKY Hackathon was organised due to the positive<br />
feedback from last year. With the help of Mr Louis Wong<br />
and Miss Season Ho, our executive team of 8 Y11 (now<br />
Y12) students and a Y9 (now Y10) student was formed in<br />
January 2022 with hopes of being able to organise a<br />
face-to-face hackathon when the pandemic ceased.<br />
However the pandemic continued and on 3rd-4th June<br />
2022, the CKY Hackathon happened at Zoom and<br />
Discord.<br />
The turnout for our event reached a total of 32 students<br />
split into 10 teams, and we had many CKY parent<br />
volunteers helping out with the keynote speech,<br />
workshops, mentoring and judging. Students were able<br />
to learn more about prototyping, branding, marketing,<br />
and presentations thanks to this hackathon. They learned<br />
how to apply new information and ideas to address<br />
difficulties in our day-to-day lives, and they also learned<br />
how crucial it is to take the demands of the intended<br />
market into account while producing goods. They<br />
concurrently learned the value of working as a team, how<br />
to play to their strengths, and how to cover for<br />
colleagues' limitations. In the future, we plan to pass on<br />
the tradition of hosting the CKY Hackathon by inviting<br />
younger students to join our executive team, and<br />
hopefully one day when we come back to visit as alumni,<br />
we will see the CKY Hackathon still standing strong,<br />
expanded to welcome all Hong Kong highschool<br />
students.<br />
CKY Hackathon Executive Team<br />
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