Build For Women hackathon 🚀
Dev Cluster organised the “Build For Women” Hackathon on 13th March 2021 to celebrate Women’s Week! The week began with our Women’s Day event “ApplaudHer2.0” on 7th March. ApplaudHer is our annual event where we celebrate women in tech. This year, we hosted 3 amazing women who shared their experiences and gave insights into their industry.
- Komal Kahlon from Wipro conducted an introductory session on UX and Design to the audience
- Raksha Nayak from Persistent Systems dived deep into Salesforce and its use in the industry
- Pradnya Desai from BYJUs shared her experiences and insights from working in the EdTech industry
In the following week, we organised the Build For Women hackathon. Although hackathons are best experienced in-person, due to COVID-19 we had to keep this one virtual. The hackathon was to inspire developers to build useful projects solving real world problems that women face. We had 7 teams participating in the hackathon, many of whom were participating in a hackathon for the first time. We saw an uproar of enthusiasm from all our participants!
The teams had about 30 hours to ideate, plan and execute! From tackling women’s safety, women’s health to women empowerment, the teams were working on really cool ideas to solve problems for women. They came up with ideas, pivoted them, iterated their code and built solutions over Saturday and Sunday!
We saw all the teams submit their hackathon projects for evaluation on Sunday. Dev Cluster is behind supporting developers and Open Source initiatives! So for this hackathon, one of the requirements for the teams was to build Open Source projects that could easily be forked and repurposed. The projects also needed to be well documented to make it easy for other developers to build on top of them and contribute.
Hackathons are all about learning and testing one’s skills. If you learn and build something cool, you’re a winner! But as promised, we had to choose 3 best projects. Our hackathon judges Komal Kahlon, Raksha Nayak and Pradnya Desai had a hard time picking top 3 from all of the awesome projects, but we finally had our winners.
The winners of the hackathon were :
1st place : Womenistic
Womenistic is a platform to help women entrepreneurs easily find funding opportunities and government startup programs for women.
Github : https://github.com/srinivass2000/team_sieg_build_for_women
Demo :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C07dwuFOcRcCGhs6Pc22mBH6ez5iFtil
2nd place : Baby And Me
Baby And Me intends to help newborn mothers find lactation centres and also offers a crowdsourced platform to find breastfeeding areas in their vicinity
Github : https://github.com/Deb77/BabyAndMe
Demo :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BAt8DHpscndhiZtbLXxxssXwe7C3Gx1L?usp=sharing
3rd place : Raksha
Raksha is a women’s safety that alerts them how secure the area they are traveling in is based on reports of crime in the area. The app also lets them send SOS signals if they’re in danger.
Github :
https://github.com/dheerajgandhi9/Raksha_Devcluster_Hackathon
Demo :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzamrNZT7BKyubdpBxdYVJQI_61eQ5Ox/view?usp=sharing
We’d like to congratulate all of the participants on their amazing work, especially since many were first time participants! We’re looking forward to organising more of such events for builders to come together to work on solutions to daunting problems in the world!
Keep building! 🚀
