Find the official list from the wiki
15 year old girl wins hackathon, news article on Start-up Garage Nairobi's Website
Photos from science Hack Day available from Matt Biddulph's and Morris Mwanga's sets on flickr.
The venue of the event has been changed from Strathmore University's iLabAfrica to Start-up garage, also known as 88 Mph. It occupies the top floor of the 40 Piedmont Plaza along Ngong' Road, Nairobi. This is the same place with the Brew Bistro lounge. The dates remain as advertised earlier, that is from 13th to 15th April, 2012.
We now have 38 days left to D-Day. We would like to invite people with ideas to work on come the 14th of April to notify us. If you want a slot at the beginning of the evening to pitch for a project, please send an e-mail to either Morris ( mmwanga[at]kennesaw.edu or Martin ( martin.chiteri[at]gmail.com ). We can fit you in the tentative schedule.
Want to help with the upcoming Science Hack Day Nairobi?
You could write a blog post, publicize the event, take photos on the day of the event, contribute hack ideas, help setting up the venue, help school going kids with projects, anything at all? Get in touch with Morris at mmwanga@kennesaw.edu
We only have 64 days remaining to Science Hack day Nairobi in April :)
Dr. Matthew Bellis of Northern Illinois University formerly a collaborator of Stanford University's SLAC project (Bar-Bar experiment) has started giving personal coaching to those who intend to participate in the LHC data hack. If interested please contact either Morris ( mmwanga[at]kennesaw.edu ) or Martin ( martin.chiteri[at]gmail.com ) for the latest data sets and instructions to be used in subsequent exercises.
These will build up to the main event so that it inspires those mentored to think up a new hack come D-day.
Couting down days to the Science Hack Day Nairobi chapter, add hack ideas to the wiki page
One of the event organizers, actually the Kenyan ambassador for Science Hack day participated in the event at San Francisco in November this year. Their hack which involved visualizing and sonifying some sample data from the L.H.C's (Large Hadron Collider) Compact Muon Solenoid experiments made it to the CERN Website.
Kudos to Morris Mwanga and the team.
Add hack ideas on this wiki.
What is Science Hack Day?
The mission of Science Hack Day is to get excited and make things with science! A Hack Day is a 48-hour-all-night event that brings together designers, developers, scientists and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and building ‘cool stuff’. Hack Days were originally created by Yahoo! in 2005 and soon after became a worldwide trend. By collaborating on focused tasks during this short period, small groups of hackers are capable of producing remarkable results. Some Hack Days have a specific focus. There have already been very successful Music Hack Days and Government Hack Days. It’s time for a Hack Day focused on science!
What is a Hack?
A hack is a quick solution to a problem – maybe not the most elegant solution, but often the cleverest. On the web, mashups are a common example of hacking: mixing up data from different sources in new and interesting ways.
Who is it for?
Imagine a Venn diagram showing the intersection of web geeks and science geeks …that’s a pretty big intersection. Science Hack Day is for anyone with an interest in bringing science and technology together. If you’re a coder, designer, scientist, hacker or just an enthusiastic person with good ideas, Science Hack Day is for you.
