Hackathon Jr Inc

Hackathon Jr. is solution-based and our goal is to host physical events in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington State, Alabama, and virtual events available to any child in the United States. To serve as an opportunity for children to develop social and interpersonal skills. Hackathon Jr. allows children to take real-world problems and create an opportunity to find solutions through collaboration and technology. Allowing children ages 9 - 13 regardless of technical skill level to learn to code and create teams to participate in the competitive part of the program. The winning teams of the hackathon competition receive new laptops.

Hackathon Jr plans on hosting in each corresponding city. Partnering with schools and universities to offer the program to the children of each state or city. Hackathon jr will focus it's marketing efforts on Title I schools and schools who do not have resources to teach STEM education, although the event is open to any student ages 9 - 13. Promoting Hackathon Jr through social media and connecting with the local schools and organizations that serve the underrepresented population of children in each city. Providing online registration through the website.

Hackathon Jr. has currently partnered with Code.org, WeWork, Vaco, Downtown Techies, Westwood of Winterhaven, The Tek, and the University of Phoenix. Additionally, we have partnered with the local coding experts in each city to volunteer as mentors for the children, provide ted style talks, and mentorship for each event.

Hackathon Jr. was founded by four University of Phoenix doctoral students, two are in the education arena and two are in the business arena. This provides the organization a great capability to meet its goals and vision for the organization as the educators write and facilitate the curriculum and the two business individuals ensure the organization's financial needs are met.

The first event for Hackathon Jr was June 30, 2018. Our accomplishments so far have been acquiring partnerships with WeWork, the University of Phoenix, local schools, and organizations.

As of 2020 we have hosted nine events and helped 400 children learn to problem-solve with technology. Additionally, improving the emotional intelligence of children who have attended the events.

We have taught and helped 228 males, and 172 females (5% Asian, 31% black, 22% Latino, 35 % white, 3% Native American, and 5% Middle Eastern) inclusivity and diversity are important and essential to equal equity.