WHAT

TeamChild is a nationally recognized nonprofit serving children in crisis across Washington State for 20 years. By drawing on its legal expertise, it works to break the cycle of arrest and detention that drives the school-to-prison pipeline. TeamChild is in the midst of an ambitious effort to scale its impact across Washington. As such, we are having our inaugural hackathon centered around breaking the school to prison pipeline.

For far too many students, disproportionately students of color, entering the gateway to incarceration begins with a referral from the classroom to the courtroom. This phenomenon funnels students out of school and into the streets and the juvenile correction system. This school-to-prison-pipeline deprives children and youth of meaningful opportunities for education, future employment, and participation in our democracy. The pipeline is reinforced by trends in school disciplinary practices and zero tolerance policies. It is our challenge to dismantle this and create new pipelines to success for all children.

The TeamChild Hack is one of the first-ever hackathons in the country to specifically address the school-to-prison pipeline. It is an historic and collaborative event where affected youth, law students, lawyers, legal service providers, coders, and designers will create technology-enabled open source solutions to address the numerous challenges faced by underserved teenagers who cannot afford a lawyer and legal services. The goal of the hackathon is to improve the delivery and execution of services that can mean the difference between graduation and incarceration for students.

WHEN

Friday & Saturday, October 7th – October 8th

Friday

• Doors open at 5:30 pm for registration 
• Dinner
• Program begins
• Welcome remarks, team formation, begin hacking
• Evening Session: mini break out sessions, continue hacking
• Hacking ends at 12am

Saturday

• Doors open at 8am
• Breakfast, updates
• Morning session: hacking continues, presentation rehearsals
• Lunch, Intersession remarks
• Afternoon session: hacking continues, presentation rehearsals
• Afternoon: submissions due, demos, judge deliberations, awards
• Dinner
• Hackathon ends at 8pm

Concurrent Youth Sessions Saturday

• 11:00am-12:00pm Session One: “Tech Justice Ideation & Design Session”
• 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch: Youth and Hackers Collaboration Session
• 1:00pm-2:00pm Session Two: “From Adversity to Opportunity- Creating positive pipelines in the tech industry.

Winners of the hackathon are invited to present at demo night on a date to be decided. Others are welcome to catch demos of other social justice concepts and mingle, network, eat & drink!

WHERE

Sullivan Hall Lower Level Seattle University School of Law 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122

WHO

Open community of lawyers, legal aid providers, social activist, law students, developers, product managers, project managers, entrepreners, designers along with Seattle University, awesome ecosystem founders and amazing sponsors

HOW

Take a look at the project list, or submit your own, and join a team on Devpost!

You’ll have 30 min to find an idea and team to join during the Hackathon on Friday after pitches (choose from an existing hack challenge, or your come with your own and find teammates).

Get connected, wi-fi it up, snag a table and start building.

Feel free to lean on Seattle University School of Law alumni & mentors, stay energized on food & drinks, have fun!

Demo and judging will take place Saturday.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

To help hackers get to know each other, refine project ideas, and start forming ideas, we’ll split off into breakout groups on Friday evening. We’re inviting experts in these areas to anchor the discussions, point teams toward available resources, and help validate concepts before you get to work. Please note that these are subject to change based on the interests of people at the event and that experts/discussion group leaders may wish to merge with other discussion groups.

PROJECT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 4pm

To submit your project to DEVPOST:

1) If you haven't already, make a project in your portfolio. 

2) Review the judging criterion (

3) Fill out your project with all the information you want judges to see.  Submissions are final, so make sure to have a few pairs of eyes on your work before you submit.

4) Submit!  There's a few ways to submit with DEVPOST.  Click here to for detailed instructions

PITCH GUIDELINES

• Pitches start at 6pm
• Each team has 5 minutes to pitch your project (your pitch can be shorter than 5 min but not longer)
• Order determined by organizers, will be announced shortly by 5:30pm
• Review the judging criterion again
• Choose 1 person to represent your team and START EARLY
• Pitch coaching is available - ask for help!

• Quality of Idea
  Does this idea solve a real problem that creates barriers for youth receiving access to justice Includes creativity and originality of the idea. Applications that are not primarily drawing related will be given preference.
• Implementation of Idea
  Implementation of Idea Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer/team and the extent to which it utilizes the full features
• Accessibility & Sustainability
  Accessibility & Sustainability How accessible is the application for the audience that is intended to serve?
• Potential Impact
  Includes the extent to which the solution could impact and improve access to youth services and improve youth justice outcomes.
• Presentation
  How well did you present?