Access Code 2.1 -- Robin Hood Hackathon: The "One More Chance" App

Created by Team Bilingual (a.k.a. Ray Acevedo, Allison Bojarski, Elvis Boves, Anthony McBride, & Jorge Reina)

The "One More Chance" app is a bilingual (English/Spanish) portal to help NYC-based Latina/o youth pursue both financial stability and educational opportunity. We're powered by the Aunt Bertha API.

###Features:

  • Allows the user to search for local financial and educational services
  • Retains user's info (name, age, location by zipcode, etc.) for future searches to return specific, tailored search results
  • Attractive UI that both visually and textually appeals to a youthful Latina/o audience

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We're also #RHfunded #QueensTech #AndroidDev #Android #hack4good #hackathon

Intro

Program

Saturday

9:30am: Check-in + Breakfast
10:00: Introductions
11:00am: Start coding!
1:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm - 6:00pm: Product Office Hours

Sunday

10:00am - 1:00PM: Product Office Hours 1:00pm: Lunch
3:00pm: Practice Demos with Mentor Feedback
4:00pm: Polishing Demos
4:30pm: Demos

Monday

6:00 - 8:00pm: Final Demos / Judges Evaluations

Resources

Ideas/Resources
Other Useful APIs/Libraries:

Rules + Guidelines

  1. Abide by all aspects of C4Q’s Code of Conduct.
  2. The C4Q Headquarters is open and available 24/7, please respect the space and people within it.
  3. Technical and product and design mentors are here to answer questions, offer guidance and give feedback. Mentors are not permitted to contribute to any code.
  4. If you incorporate any code that you have not written you must include appropriate attributions.
  5. No code written prior to the start of the Hackathon on Saturday August 1st will be permitted in Hackathon products.

Judging Criteria

Your hack will be judged based on these 4 criteria:

  1. Effective and Engaging Demo + Presentation
  2. Solves a relevant problem in NYC
  3. Originality - is the hack more than a generic mobile app? Does it take a novel approach or solve a new problem?
  4. Polish - Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
  5. Technical Difficulty - Is the hack technically interesting or difficult?

Submission Details

Please fork this repo for your own projects this weekend so we can easily find them on Monday. (Note: this was initialized with a .gitignore that you may need to change).