Empowering Diverse Audiences

Solution:

After extensive immersion and research into NACME and the target audience, we created a custom 24-hour hackathon experience with a twist. To push students outside their comfort zones and help them fully appreciate their reach and potential, the hackathon was about more than coding. It guided them and tested their abilities to innovate, collaborate, problem solve, and apply kinaesthetic learning.  

The NACME Hackathon took place in Washington DC over 24 hours, with students working in teams to design solutions to real-world problems using cutting-edge collaborative tools. The teams were brought together at key points in the process by an experienced facilitator who delivered learning on the essential skills that students needed to deploy to solve their challenges.  

To truly connect the students to the real world problems they were solving, we invited experts from NACME partner organisations to attend. The experts spoke about how they were innovating and pushing boundaries at their organisations, showing students real-life applicability of the skills and career paths that await them, while also also helping students with their solutions, answering subject-specific questions, suggesting new ways of thinking, and empowering these diverse future leaders.