Hackathon!
27.05.2019 Jätä kommentti
When we left to hackathon, we were super tired for having to wake up earlier than we are used to. But I was also pleasantly surprised as the Yeast Beasts, other team from Norssi, had an ukulele with them. Like a bunch of diligent fellow travellers, they sang and played the whole trip all the to Helsinki, which made us content and ready to battle!
We arrived in the school at noon and had a lunch. The official program started with opening and few companies that were part of the Hackathon introduced themselves. When it finally ended, we had this cool competition where we had to make a building from raw spaghetti and it had to hold up a one marshmallow. Ruohonleikkurit had 61 cm long thing that looked like offspring of Eiffel Tower and Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Then we were allowed to start doing the actual thing: solving a problem that we were given from some companies. Both of our groups already had a problem and a solution, so we mostly just had fun and chilled. Before workshops started, our ideas looked pretty good. In those workshops we had different kind of themes: water cycle, pitching, visual communication and creative thinking. Those workshops required so much energy that we needed to take a walk, or we were forced to go. There was a beautiful view from the hills.
For dinner, they had bought us some huge pizzas. At the evening, we made our presentations and started to get ready for Friday’s pitching. We also had kisakatsomo for the night’s ice hockey game. Finland won Denmark by goals 3-1.
The other day was a bit more creative and nerve-wracking for us. Our day began when Anu came and woke us up for breakfast. The next 3-4h from that went by quickly as we made the final touches for our pitching that was properly done by one of the bravest, Silja. And by Dan from the other team.
Unfortunately, Turku did not get in the top 3 this time, but we’ll get there next time…strikingly.
The trip back was surprisingly peaceful. We reflected the way our Hackathon experience had been, and the unanimous answer was compressed to a single word; Amazing. Overall, we all had a great time there!
Here are our teams Ruohonleikkurit and Yeast Beasts doing their pitchings.
Rebecca & Janna
