Hip Hop Hacktivist: Mentor Application

Hip Hop Hacktivist is a free hackathon targeting high school students that will take place at the Tumblr office on June 24th from 10am - 11:30pm. Our primary goal is to use the appeal and influence of the hip hop culture to introduce the tech industry and its opportunities to high school students  belonging to minority and under-represented groups. We will use what they are familiar with to introduce them to something new.

The idea is to take a group of students who have no experience with programming and simply WOW them. At the core of our event we will group them in teams, assist them in brainstorming a tech idea, and allow them to see it get built right in front of their eyes. All this with assistance from various professional tech and design mentors. Students will also present their ideas and win prizes for the their creations. Along the way we will incorporate various hip hop themes and motifs in an attempt to speak their language and engage them. For instance,  this upcoming hackathon is a Kendrick Lamar inspired event and the theme is "We Gon Be Alright", which is a popular line from his award winning song titled "Alright" that deeply resonates with the youth. Within the hook of that song Kendrick Lamar passionately raps, "looking at the world like where do we go", expressing the sentiment that a lot of people are in unfortunate circumstances and are in need of somewhere to turn to for social, economic, and medical resources. With those lyrics in mind, we are asking students to use the NYC Open Data Api https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ to find a population that faces barriers and build an app that gives people access to a critical resource. For instance, one could build an app that helps high-school kids find, track, and verify volunteer work. Essentially we are asking students to create an app that gives those people "looking at the world like where do we go", a place to go.

We are currently reaching out to our extended tech community for support in making this event successful. Currently we are in need of a few tech and design mentors who can donate their time. Being a tech or design mentor means that you will directly interacting with the students and guiding them through the process of coming up with their app ideas and bringing those ideas to life. Below is a detailed overview of what each role entails.
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Design Mentor Overview
Design Mentors - 1 per table

-- Manage a table of 5 high school students along with 2 tech mentors.
-- Assist 2 tech mentors in guiding the students throughout the agile process of designing and building a product
-- Facilitate brainstorming session with 5 high school students who have no design or coding experience with assistance
   from 2 tech mentors
-- Keep student's idea centered around  the hackathon theme and make sure idea meets all of the necessary
   requirements for the competition
-- Assist students in making design decisions and choices that are feasible within given amount of time
-- Turn the students idea into a sketched out wireframe ready to be given to the tech mentors to develop
-- Assist students in coming up with a 4 minute presentation that best displays their product


As a design mentor, your name, image, and Linkedin profile will be featured on the official Hip Hop Hacktivist website, you will have a great time hacking with our awesome high school students, and ultimately you will contribute to promoting diversity in tech. Please help us build an inclusive tech community and plant seeds for the future. Thank you!

Volunteer As A Design Mentor
Tech Mentor Overview

Tech Mentors - 2 per table

-- Manage a table of 5 high school students along with 1 other tech mentor and a design mentor.
-- Assist design mentor and one other tech mentor in guiding the students throughout the agile process of designing and
   building a product
-- Assist  design mentor and one other tech mentor in a brainstorming session with 5 high school students that have no
   design or coding experience
-- Keep student's idea centered around  the hackathon theme and make sure the idea meets all of the necessary
   requirements for the hackathon competition
-- Assist students in making design decisions and choices that are feasible within given amount of time
-- Take wireframe created by design mentor and turn it into a app with assistance from another tech mentor

As a tech mentor, your name, image, and Linkedin profile will be featured on the official Hip Hop Hacktivist website, you will have a great time hacking with our awesome high school students, and ultimately you will contribute to promoting diversity in tech. Please help us build an inclusive tech community and plant seeds for the future. Thank you!


Volunteer As A Tech Mentor
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