Workshops 2020

HACC 2020 Workshops


HACC 2020 Interim Workshop 2

Pitch Your Solution

This workshop helps you to get ready to present your solution to the HACC judges and learn how to pitch like a pro! Whether you’re pitching investors, customers, or HACC judges, this workshop teaches you the fundamentals of delivering a great presentation, with tips and tricks that’ll help you stand out from the crowd.

Slides and Zoom Recording available here


HACC 2020 Interim Workshop 1:

Rapid Application Development with Microsoft’s Power Platform: A Crash Course

  • Overview of the Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and the Common Data Service
  • How to get a trial environment to build on for the HACC
  • Demonstration: building a Power Platform solution
  • Resources for learning more
  • Q&A

Sponsored by:

Slides and Videos available here


Workshop #5 – HACC Important Tools

HACC’s fifth workshop will provide an overview of the important tools used to participate in the hackathon, including:

  • Slack
  • DevPost
  • GitHub

We will also be introducing the new HACC HUI tool being built by UH to manage team formation and enrollment since HACC 2020 is virtual this year!

Slides and Zoom recording available here


Workshop #4 – Understanding the Problem and Gathering Requirements

Margaret Latonio & Dylan Souza of IIBA are the instructors for the HACC’s fourth workshop.  This workshop which provides strategies on how to evaluate a challenge and determine the best course of finding a solution through a strategic requirement gathering process.

This introduction to requirements gathering is meant to help you think differently about how to interact with people looking for technical solutions to their problems.

Slides and Zoom recording available here


Workshop #3 – Educator Training Camp

Learn how to use the Hawai’i Annual Code Challenge (HACC) as a real-world learning opportunity for your students, while fostering civic engagement.

This 4 session workshop walks you through steps your team would take during the competition – unpack the challenge, identify a possible technology stack, create a demonstration video and pitch presentation.

Objectives: To ease fears and lower barriers of using the HACC as a learning tool in the classroom while creating innovative proof-of-concepts in preparation for the HACC competition.

Zoom Recordings and Slides available here


Workshop #2 – Strategies for Securing Data

Vince Hoang, State of Hawaii Chief Information Security Officer, gave an overview of the State’s infrastructure and provide strategies on securing data to help you plan for HACC 2020.

Cort Chambers, Ph.D., PCATT – shared techniques that allow you to identify and address security threats, attacks and vulnerabilities within your network including the cloud, helping you to protect both your data and your client’s data.

Workshop recording and slides available here


Workshop #1 – Google Data Analytics and Visualization

HACC partners with Google for a workshop on Data Analytics and Visualization, plus more!

Get ahead of the game and join the HACC’s first virtual workshop featuring multinational tech company Google! It’s a great opportunity to build your digital skills and tool box in preparation for the #HACC2020 competition.

Google Event Slides