Name: Hackpalachia
Start: 2019-09-28T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-09-28T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Academic & Research Center

Hackpalachia

September

28

2019

at

8:00am

RSVP IS Closed

What is Hackpalachia?

Glad you asked!

Hackpalachia is an inclusive, entrepreneurship-focused hackathon for students and young professionals in the Appalachian region.

You'll have the opportunity to work with students from universities throughout the region to tackle tough problems, gain leadership skills, learn about entrepreneurship, and hone your artistic, business, or coding skills.

Guided by our expert mentors and staff, you can work on tough problems that have a real impact on your community.

You can bring your own project or product, join a new team and help bring their idea to life, or come up with a new idea and work on it during the day to pitch that evening.

Success will depend on not only the uniqueness of your idea, but also in how you've validated that idea, and in any prototypes you have built.

What is Appalachia?

A gold mine of talent and opportunity.

The Appalachian region is home to more than 25 million Americans across 13 states.

The region has been harmed by the loss of manufacturing and mining jobs in the United States.

Despite this, the region is full of great universities and talented and hungry people who are ready to change the world!

#Hackpalachia

Why should you attend?

Meet a co-founder

Hackpalachia will give you the opportunity to meet a co-founder, or future teammates for your idea.

Learn about entrepreneurship

There is no substitute for learning besides doing. You want to be an entrepreneur or improve your coding, design, or business skills? You need to practice. Hackpalachia gives you an opportunity to practice and potentially take your idea to the next level.

Have fun!

You're going to meet a lot of new people, network with mentors and company representatives, and have a great time working on a project. Why spend your Saturday mindlessly scrolling on Facebook when you can go make a difference and have fun doing it?

Prizes

We're excited to offer a variety of prizes for the winning teams. Exact distribution of prizes will be announced later, except where otherwise noted below.

Google START Program

The 1st place team will get automatic entry into Google's START program, which includes $3,000 in Google Cloud credits. https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

Unreal Collective Consultation

Winning teams will have the opportunity to work with Jay Clouse, entrepreneur and co-founder of Tixers, Upside.FM, and Unreal Collective.

Ohio University Innovation Center

The OU Innovation Center is excited to sponsor a variety of in-kind prizes for the teams, including mentorship, and access to their network of resources to take your startup further.

Pence Branding

The winning team will get a free brand style guide from Pence Branding - $500 value, saving the team a ton of time and helping them get to market more quickly.

nChannel Consulting

nChannel, a startup in Columbus, Ohio is offering consulting hours to help validate they business and financial models of your startup.

Rev1 Ventures

Rev1 will help promote your company and give access to their Customer Learning Lab to help you better understand your target customer.

Who Should Attend?

Software/Hardware Engineers

Engineers tackle tough problems and build products.

'Nuff Said

Business Experts

Whether it's marketing, finance, or ideation, business people help drive the nuts and bolts of an idea and organize the real-world activities to make sure that the idea is successful.

Creatives

Creatives breathe life into the project. They help by creating unique, and novel designs, branding, and marketing materials.

Everyone Else

Just because we didn't fit you into one of our other 3 neat little boxes doesn't mean you can't come. In fact, more than likely you're more needed: someone who doesn't quite fit the mold and has unique skills and experience, and wants to learn. That's you. We need you.

Event Schedule

8:00 AM

Arrive

Doors open: Sign in, grab breakfast

9:00 AM

Welcome

Event overview and guest speaker

9:40 AM

Break

Breakout for teams to get settled in and find a space to rock it all day!

10:00 AM - 6:00PM

CRUSH IT

Hackathon officially starts.

12:00 PM

Lunch

5:00 PM

Dinner and Tech Checks Start

Check to make sure your presentation works with our equipment.

7:00 PM

Showtime!

Pitches start

After Pitches

Judges will convene and decide prizes and winners

AfterParty

The Judges

Good Company Venture | Founder & CEO

Mrs Robinson

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Good Company Venture | Founder & CEO

Mrs Robinson

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Good Company Venture | Founder & CEO

Mrs Robinson

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Good Company Venture | Founder & CEO

Mrs Robinson

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Mentors

Piper Lawson

Stack Overflow

Kierra Westmoreland

JPMorgan Chase

Brent Hammer

Grange Insurance

Michael Giuliano

Entreprenuer

ryan frederick

AWH

Kishore Ravilla

Ohio Health

Ryan Lunka

nChannel

Ben Lachman

TechGrowth Ohio + NIce Mohawk

Paul Benedict

Ohio University Center for ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Judging Team

stacy strauss

Director - Ohio Innovation Center

Arnab Nandi

Founder - Mobikit

David Juedes

Chair EECS Department - Ohio University

Organizing Team

Eric May

Develop Appalachia

Dr. Chang Liu

Ohio University

Trevor Bennett

The Ohio State University

Yi-Ruei CHen

Grange Insurance

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Lunch Sponsors

In-Kind Sponsors

Venue

Known as "the ARC", the Academic & Research Center is an 89,000-square-foot joint academic building that houses researchers from the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Russ College of Engineering.

Weekend parking near the event at the Stocker Center, or the Convocation center is free, but please follow signage for possible parking restrictions.

Our Code of Conduct

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