23rd CKY issue

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