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SIGN UP HERE: http://go.nudm.org/techsignup Any Northwestern student can sign up! Also - don't worry about indicating your team, you will do that when you turn in your work!
Guidelines and data for the Northwestern University Dance Marathon Tech Challenge, in partnership with Bounteous
The NUDM Tech Challenge is a 2 week long hack-a-thon where students aim to solve 1 of our 3 problem statements. Students may compete in teams of up to 3 people. 1st, 2nd and 3rd, place teams will be chosen and $1000, $600 and $400 will be allocated to the NUDM team fundraising pages of their choice.
Kickoff: Monday 1/21/18
Bounteous Office Hours: Monday 1/28/19 5:30pm-8:30pm Annenberg G30 - Pizza, Salad & Drinks will be provided!
Submission Deadline: Wednesday 2/20/19 at midnight
Final Presentations: Friday 2/22/19 1pm-3pm Norris Lake Room (203)
Contact 650-888-3761 with any questions!
Instructions are provided in the following Google Drive. Please also submit your work to this Drive!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rbYFloQNYKpmpYNkpEbBfoKK3wkbjcaG
You may continue to work on your submission even after you have submitted. We just need an idea of the number of teams who will be presenting!
We will reach out and notify everyone who submits to present. We're anticipating that we will have time for all submissions to present on Friday!
Final presentations should explain and demonstrate how your solution works and how it addresses your chosen problem. No slide deck is necessary, however if you may use them.
In addition, reference to the categories defined in the rubric will help the judging committee to better understand your work.
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Due to new regulations in the nonprofit industry CIS of Chicago’s employees must track their hours accurately. Develop a solution to address this.
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CIS of Chicago chooses which CPS schools to partner with based on their level of need. Develop a way for them to better consider a multitude of factors and ultimately make this decision.
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CIS of Chicago is always looking for better ways to improve graduation rates in CPS schools. Develop your own prompt and answer it!
Participants are free to pursue solutions in whatever format they wish! Ideas and resources for getting started are provided below.
Communities In Schools (CIS) of Chicago works to lower dropout rates in Chicago Public Schools. (CPS) Their programs work on 4 key areas:
- Arts
- College and Career Preparation
- Health
- Mental Health and Wellness
For more on how CIS operates within schools:
https://www.cisofchicago.org/big-ideas/
https://www.cisofchicago.org/key-programs/
There are two types of data relevant to CPS schools: School specific data and data on the surrounding neighborhood. School data will tell you about the performance of the school via test scores and other performance metrics. Neighborhood data will tell you about the area that the school is located in. This is relevant because schools largely draw from their surrounding neighborhoods.
Within CPS Schools sheet we have listed every CPS school, its associated school id, neighborhood, affiliation with CIS of Chicago in addition to other general info. This sheet was designed as a starting point for aggregating the data that you wish to collect.
Prepared "Neighborhood Data":
We collected data from the Chicago Health Atlas 1.0 API (https://chicagohealth.herokuapp.com/apidoc/1.0.html) and put it into csv files. The data in this folder represents a subset of the total data in the Atlas, so if you would like more detail you should use the API. What we do have is segmented by neighborhood under the column 'location' so it can be joined to the CPS School sheet with a simple vlookup or index/match function.
The data is organized into categories. (demography, clinical-care, etc.) Within these categories we list indicators (columns) by the different metrics (percent, crude_rate, number, ave_annual_number) used to record them. Some metrics are not applicable for certain indicators, so not all of the data is filled in.
Percent - cases per 100
Crude Rate - cases per 100,000
Number - cases
Ave Annual Number - average number of annual cases
The data recorded has associated dates and descriptions which are detailed in the indicator_info.csv
School Specific Data (join to CPS Schools sheet based on School ID):
https://www.cps.edu/SchoolData/Pages/SchoolData.aspx (Summarized in "Summary CPS Data.pdf")
http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/education/statistics
Other Neighborhood Specific Data (join to CPS Schools sheet based on Neighborhood):
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
Getting started in React Native - https://expo.io/tools
Getting started in Ionic - https://ionicframework.com/
Tableau for students - https://www.tableau.com/academic/students
Microsoft Office for students - https://msoffice.northwestern.edu
Postman (for API testing) - https://www.getpostman.com/apps
Requests (for API's in Python scripts) - https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/requests/using-requests-in-python