Anyone interested in bringing CodeDay to your city?

[edwardj]

Many of you participate in FRC, and know or have heard about the intensity of the six-week build season.

I graduated from high school a few years ago, and I remember the build season really igniting passion in our team, encouraging us to build more.

However, I'm more of a programmer, so about a year ago, a few of my friends and I created an event called CodeDay. It's a coding marathon (or hackathon) where high school & college students get together and build cool apps and games in 24 hours.

Students start the day by pitching ideas for building something they think is awesome, form teams, and then work on building it over the next 24 hours.

It's really fun and intense -- just like FRC, but instead of building a robot, you create an app or game, and your build season is 24 hours.

We've hosted 11 events in 5 cities last year with over 750 student attendees, and our goal is to host 50 events reaching >3,000 students over the 2013-2014 school year.

Would anyone be interested in bringing it to their city? High school students have actually successfully organized CodeDays before -- all you need is to have a passionate team and be willing to learn.