We’ve been busy contacting design tech and electrical engineering education departments to tell them about The Hackaday Prize, but there are only so many of us and we could do with your help to get the word out.
Are you excited about The Hackaday Prize? Do you think more people at your school should know about it so they can take part? Either way, please help us help them by emailing prize@hackaday.com to let us know what program coordinators, student group, or other people we should contact. If appropriate, we have a bunch of promotional materials we would like to send out to some of these awesome hackers.
You can also help us by telling your hacker designer friends, posting about The Hackaday Prize on college social media (#HackadayPrize), or letting the student newspaper know. We want to get as many universities, colleges and high schools involved as possible. Many senior year project ideas would make great starting points for THP entries, and we want to make sure students take up this opportunity to show off what they can do (and hopefully win some stuff in the process). This makes a great summer project, and looks great when applying for colleges or jobs in the future.
Remember you have until August to get your entry in, but the sooner you post it on Hackaday Projects, the sooner you can potentially start winning rewards. We have hundreds of tshirts, stickers, patches, posters and other swag up for grabs on the way to winning The Hackaday Prize.
Going to get the engineering club I teach involved. Prepare for some rubbish but enthusiastic entries :p
Too bad that around here it is the end of the semester. So students are trying to find a summer job instead of being at school.
We’ve had quite a few people say that they will work on this over the summer. It is a good time for students in their final year, as now their studies are over they can spend some time on this.
Students who don’t have access to school facilities when the semester ends can look up local hackerspaces. We have just added a map over on Hackaday Projects http://hackaday.io/hackerspaces. Hackerspaces have to list themselves, so if yours is not down you should ask them to add some details.