August 22-24, 2022
São Paulo
Do you want to be part of tech-solutions for and national challenges in the educational area?
Do you have a problem in education that could be solved with the support of technology?
What is the EdTech Hackathon?
The program
The Edtech Hackathon is an event to develop tech solutions to local and global challenges in education. The online phase is the moment where everyone can submit an idea of challenge here. The presencial phase, which will take place on the 22-24th of August at the Goethe Institut in São Paulo. It will be two exclusive days for participants to develop solutions supported by mentors and workshops and pizza.
What kind of problem we are aiming to solve?
The Challenges
Challenges related to education and technology can be submitted online and by everyone, some will be selected by jury and will be worked on by hackthon participants over two days. The solutions proposed during the Hackthon will be sent to the authors and published here.
Who can participate?
Participants
The 30 participants from various parts of Brazil will be selected by the organizing committee. We will financially support applications from outside the expanded São Paulo area and from all over Brazil with a mobility grant.
Pre-Event | Digital Education
This pre-event webinar will showcase the state of the art of digitalization in Education from the perspective of the two German Universities and will also explain the hackathon idea and inform about the program and the ways to participate.
Program (local Brazilian CET time):
10am (Brazilian time) / 15pm (CEST)
10:00 AM (BRT) | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Welcome & Moderation: Sören Metz (Technical University of Munich) and Christian Lazar (Freie Universität Berlin)
10:15 (BRT) | Digital Education - Quo vadis. Insights from two German universities of Excellence
- - Prof. Dr. Daniel Pittich (Assitant Professorship of Technical Education - TUM)
- - Dr. Antje Brock (Institut Futur, Freie Universität Berlin)
10:45 (BRT) | German-Brazilian EdTech Hackathon
- - Thomas Bartoschek (re:edu) - presentation of the challenge and the German-Brazilian EdTech Hackathon
11:00 AM (BRT) | Q&A Session with all panelists
11:30 AM (BRT) | Wrap-Up Closing Remarks, Summary and Wrap Up
The webinar will be conducted in English. Questions can be asked by the audience in the webinar
Signup for the event
If you missed the pre event you can watch the recording of the presentation on youtube:
The challenges
TBA
Challenges will be published soon
TBA
Challenges will be published soon
TBA
Challenges will be published soon
The Jury
General description and the number of people
Rafael D. Deschka
Goethe-Institut São Paulo
Head of Language and Educational Programms South America,
Prof. Dr. Martin Neugebauer
FU Berlin
Empirical research on education and higher education
TBA
The Mentors and Mediators
The Team of mentors will help you during the hackathon.
Artur Kim Shum
re:edu GmbH & Co KG.
Design, UX
Felix Erdmann
re:edu GmbH & Co KG.
Web and App development
Anna Maria Schneider
TUM Munich
Kamilla Tenório
FU Berlin
Computer Science Education
Thaís Blasio Martins
Municipal Education Secretary of São Paulo
Education Programms
Priscilla Pessutti Nascimento
Goethe-Institut São Paulo
Coordinator of Educational Projects
The Organisators
Mario Pesch
University of Muenster
Dr. Thomas Bartoschek
University of Muenster
Christian Lazar
FU Berlin
Laura Redondo
University of Muenster
Maxi Neidhardt
g.a.s.t
Sören Metz
TUM Munich
Timeline
Start
May 31st of 2022
Submit a challenge and apply to join the Edtech Hackthon
Webinar
June 22nd of 2022 - 10AM (BRT) | 3PM (CEST)
Get to know the state of the art of digitalization in Education with German Universities and Hackathon idea. More Information and Signup
Deadline for challenge submission
August 01st of 2022
Submit a challenge and apply to join the Edtech Hackthon
Edtech Hackthon - Day 01
August 22nd of 2022
Learning, meeting & hacking - Pre-hack hands-on workshops on technologies Lunch Welcome words DWIH & introduction & challenges Thinking and tinkering + Pitches + Group forming Pizza dinner
Edtech Hackthon - Day 02
August 23rd of 2022
Learning, meeting & hacking - Pre-hack hands-on workshops on technologies Lunch Welcome words DWIH & introduction & challenges Thinking and tinkering + Pitches + Group forming Pizza dinner
Edtech Hackthon - Day 03
August 24th of 2022
Learning, meeting & hacking - Pre-hack hands-on workshops on technologies Lunch Welcome words DWIH & introduction & challenges Thinking and tinkering + Pitches + Group forming Pizza dinner
