HackBAC 2025: Change-Makers – Potomac, MD

HackBAC 2025: Change-Makers – Potomac, MD

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Potomac, MD. Happening on Monday, January 27, 2025 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Change-Makers: Creating Sustainable Social, Political or Environmental Impacts in Our Shared Society

Hosts

The Black Alumni Collective (BAC) at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in partnership with The Glasgow Group. The theme for HackBAC 205 is centered on opportunities for students to become CHANGE-MAKERS. HackBAC will take place at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School School in Potomac, MD, on January 30th through February 2, 2025.

Program Overview

Change-Makers: Creating Sustainable Social, Political or Environmental Impacts in Our Shared Society

This year, HackBAC 2025 brings together middle and high school enhance the capacity, potential and creativity necessary to address social issues and to create sustainable social, political or environmental impact in our shared society. What are the pressing societal challenges and how can we be a part of the change?

Participants work in teams to develop innovative solutions for critical issues such as poverty, education, healthcare, and environmental sustainability. The essence of this social justice hackathon lies in its ability to harness the collective creativity and expertise of its participants, driving meaningful and sustainable change.

By focusing on real problems and applying empathic insight, this hackathon encourages participants to think creatively and develop practical solutions that ultimately contribute to solving complex societal problems and fostering a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and social responsibility.

HackBAC 2025 aims to help student teams create solutions and develop their ideas by providing extensive mentor support and advice in the areas of coding, CAD, robotics, and AI. Developers, designers, product experts, and those passionate about sustainability are also invited to participate in HackBAC 2025 as mentors. Student participants from grades 8-12 are invited to offer a fresh and creative perspective on social issues and develop new responses through the lens of social justice to create a more sustainable and inclusive future for everyone.

Intended Audience

In previous years, HackBAC was intentionally created as an affinity space for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) 8th-12th grade highly motivated students who have demonstrated interest in social justice and those who work in solidarity to advance social justice for these identities. This year, HackBAC is open to students of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Pricing

One of the Black Alumni Collective’s (BAC) values of engagement to drive institutional change is transparency. Thus, we as the BAC aim to model such in our actions, decisions, and policies in hopes of fostering a greater sense of trust in all that we do.

As an advocacy organization operating at the grassroots level, working to transform the institution of education and address the racial wealth gap through intentionally designed programming, we believe it’s of the utmost importance that we are candid about our pricing and revenue model.

Meaningful mentorship is at the cornerstone of our approach to unlock and harness genius in those who participate in HackBAC. We provide an honorarium to our mentors who are committed to the mission of HackBAC and bringing this event to life. Additionally, the prize money is seed money to move solutions that are created during the program from pitch to prototype, and ultimately make a tangible positive impact in one own’s community.

The bottom line: we want to ensure that each student who would like to attend HackBAC can so do, regardless of possible financial or budgetary limitations.

We are offering multiple participant discounts depending upon the number of students that compete from each school. Due to the continued generosity of our donors, we can provide a few discretionary partial scholarships to reduce the cost of participation.

If the cost of the event prevents student participation, please have the Faculty Advisor contact the HackBAC planning team at blackalumnicollective@saes.org.

Scholarships

As there are a limited number of scholarships available, we ask that you use your best judgment when requesting a scholarship. Additionally, all participants are expected to attend the entirety of the event and all sessions. To request a scholarship application, please have the Faculty Advisor contact the HackBAC planning team at blackalumnicollective@saes.org.

Note: Language inspired by and adapted from the Transgender Traning Institute.

What’s included?

  • HackBAC SwagPAC
  • Ability to win up to $1,000 in entrepreneurship credits — additional credits available to be used as seed money post-hackathon
  • 6 total opportunities to engage with the HackBAC community throughout the school year!
  • Assistance with prototyping your idea, no matter if your team placed or not; with 3 post hackathon gatherings to move idea from pitch to prototype
  • Exposure and ability to network with high-level executives and experts
  • Placement with a dynamic mentor that guides your team
  • Opportunities to create national and international networks of like-minded students
  • Optional Friday Night Mixer!

Event Dates and Times (all times in EST)

Jan. 27 – Feb. 3, 2024

Opening Genius Talk (Virtual): January 27: 7-8:30 pm EST

Day 1: January 31: 8 am – 4 pm (@ St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, MD)

Day 2: 9 am – 6 pm (@ St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, MD)

Day 3: 8 am – 12 pm (@ St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, MD)

About the BAC

The Black Alumni Collective is an advocacy organization formed by five Black alumni of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. During the summer of racial reckoning of 2020 in the United States, the members of the inaugural BAC Leadership Team set out with the desire to impact the institution of education and support the racial justice and equality movement domestically. Furthermore, the BAC is committed to helping St. Andrew’s work with its Black constituents and beyond to foster and model reconciliation, ensure racial equity and equality, and enrich the experience of Black St. Andrew’s students and alumni through fellowship, advocacy, and mentorship.

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Event ID - 1095343675419

Event Venue - St. Andrew's Episcopal School

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Event City - Potomac

Event State - MD

 

Date And Time

Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 07:00 PM (EST)
 

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St. Andrew's Episcopal School
 

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8804 Postoak Road, Potomac, MD 20854
 

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