Hawaii Annual Code Challenge

HACC 2019 is almost here!

Saturday, October 19, 2019
Kick Off – Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium
Times 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Saturday, October 26, 2019
Workshop – Hawaii Pacific University, Aloha Tower Marketplace, MPR 1
Times 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Saturday, November 2, 2019
Workshop – Hawaii Pacific University, Aloha Tower Marketplace, MPR 2
Times 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Saturday, November 16, 2019
Presentation/Judging – Hawaii Pacific University, Aloha Tower Marketplace, Sunset Ballroom
Times 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Registration is open for the Kick Off Event – Sign up today! We could use your help at the Kick Off: Volunteer

Gov. David Ige’s vision for the HACC when it began in 2015 included providing an opportunity for civic engagement with the local technology community in modernizing state functions and services for a more effective, efficient and open government. As the HACC continues to evolve, it is building upon the success of last year’s theme of working towards state-wide sustainability using Hawaii Green Growth’s (HGG) Aloha + Dashboard. This year, while HACC 2019 continues to foster HGG’s sustainability goals, it is expanding its focus to include community resiliency, designed to promote interaction and mutual benefit between State agencies and communities using a public-private partnership model.

The HACC will generate proof-of-concepts by student, amateur and professional coders to benefit community and State agencies to support sustainability at the idea-phase level, feeding into Hawai’i’s vibrant innovation ecosystem to promote solutions for community resilience, professional development, local job creation and building local businesses. Through the HACC, Hawai’i is illustrating a collaboration approach to encourage public-private cooperation to achieve community resilience, emphasizing impact through creative and innovative solutions to challenges facing the state, its community and citizens.

The HACC breaks the mold of a traditional hackathon, which typically takes place over a single day or weekend. The HACC provides an expanded multi-week timeframe meant to encourage interaction between community teams and state department personnel, ultimately resulting in sustainable solutions that are appropriately matched with technologies and platforms in use or being considered by the state. Beginning at the HACC Kickoff, community participants form teams and select from a list of challenges.

The HACC is nationally recognized with the State IT Innovation of the Year award by StateScoop,
the leading government IT media company in the nation’s capital.

more information

Please fill out and submit the HACC 2019 registration form.

Please read and sign the official event rules and guidelines acknowledgment form. If you are a minor under the age of 18, please have your legal guardian sign the document.

Enrollment Form (18+ Years) ↗ Enrollment Form (For Minors) ↗

Please read and review the event judging and technical review criteria document.

Judging and Technical Review Criteria ↗

HGIA Green Loan Portal

DBEDT/Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority – Green Loan Application Portal Challenge Description: Leveraging and integrating existing solutions (such as Salesforce, etc.) to provide our applicants with a more intuitive, customer friendly and timely experience with government loan programs Challenge submission details

ETS/HGG Community Engagement & Digital Storytelling

Office of Enterprise Technology Services / Hawaii Green Growth Community Engagement & Digital Storytelling Challenge Description: Using data to better communicate a story and foster community engagement and participation in achieving the goals of the Aloha+ Dashboard Challenge submission details on Community Engagement Challenge submission details on Digital Storytelling

Energy/HECO Electric Vehicle Charging Analysis

State Energy Office/Hawaii Electric Co. Electric Vehicle Charging Analysis Challenge Description: a dashboard displaying health of charging station shall be updated every 5-10 minutes using key metrics developed from charging data analysis. A utilization tracker shall include a “congestion” threshold at which a new station in the same location is needed. The impact from EV charging […]

DOE Aloha+ Curricular Database

Department of Education – Aloha + Curricular Database Challenge Description: Curricular development is often done in silos and the resources generated from that are scattered across platforms and websites. We also lack a process to certify content to standards and career pathways. If we could construct an OER that enables specialists to certify materials (cross-walked […]