About
Do you want to have a big impact on edtech? If you are a teacher, developer or designer with a great idea for an app or just looking to help turn a great idea into reality, this is the weekend event of the year for you! A weekend hackathon at Google Campus, London, UK to create the next generation of mobile apps for use in the classroom, apps that can have a real impact on learning, plus the opportunity to meet and network with some of the key people in the London EdTech community.
The Hackathon is organised by Zzish. Our mission is to enable almost anyone to create education apps that can have a real impact on learning. We're levelling the playing field for app creators across the world, allowing them to create apps better, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Programme
Friday 27 Nov
• 5:30pm Arrival
• 6:00pm Presentation from Charles Wiles, CEO at Zzish
• 6:30pm 2 minute pitches from attendees
• 7:00pm Networking and team forming
Sat 28 Nov
• 9:00am Breakfast
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 6:30pm Dinner
Sun 29 Nov
• 9:00am Breakfast
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 4:30pm 5 minute presentations
• 5:30pm Judging and awards
• 6pm Finish
Our mission at Zzish is to enable almost anyone to create education apps that can have a real impact on learning. We're levelling the playing field for app creators across the world, allowing them to create apps better, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Prizes
First prize
First prize is £5,000 of development effort from Zzish to turn the best application that plugs into the Zzish Learning Hub into a product ready app. Zzish will also promote the app to their network of 2,000 schools in 60 countries.
Second prize
Mentoring and advice + free review on the Education App Store (worth £300)
Business Advice
A meeting with Chris Huey, leading investor in UK EdTech ventures (such as Code Kingdoms and Zzish) to advise you on your business model and investor pitch.
Digital pedagogy training
2 hour training session on digital pedagogy and introduction to instructional design.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
You can sign up on our Eventbrite page to buy your tickets
Judges
Henry Warren
Innovation and product development expert at Pearson plc
Kirsten Campbell-Howes
Head of Education at Busuu
Richard Taylor
Edtech expert and advisor at Zzish Ltd
Lucy Ashman
Head of Ideas, Teach First Innovation Unit
Charles Wiles
Co-founder and CEO of Zzish
Judging Criteria
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The projects presented must be related to educational technology. It can be just an idea or a project that needs improvement or updates.
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