This Equalithon
For CyHax Equalithon 2023, starting on September 15, let's rally behind the cybersecurity community!
Join the CyHax #Equalithon and be part of teams dedicated to supporting cybersecurity enthusiasts, or become a mentor to guide them.
Together, we'll tackle various challenges, both technical and non-technical. We aim to amplify the influence of nonprofit organizations and provide the resources needed to launch and finance the startups of aspiring cybersecurity founders.
Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!
This Equalithon is an opportunity to:
Address critical cybersecurity challenges.
Enhance and magnify our impact, collectively.
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Equalithons are Hackathons for Equality.
Welcome to a new world of inclusion!
They include:
Various “tracks” that you’ll choose in the short registration process.
Each track is designed per categories of skills and role.
Skills: you join the equalithon as a designer, developer, marketer, etc.
Role: you want to join as a team member or as a mentor.
Tracks encompass various events and experiences like micro-challenges for you to get motivated or onboard. A few things a mandatory to get your certificate, but many are not.
You’ll be onboarded through videos, micro-challenges and meetings. You’ll learn about communicating, goals, solutions etc.
Onboardings are customized for participants and for mentors, depending on your skills, personal or company goals, time available etc.
During a Launch event or follow-up meetings, you will learn more about the nonprofit or founder you’ll help. You can ask questions, connect, understand their expected impact, and understand them and the community they support.
What you’ll do. For a few hours to a few weeks depending on your track, you will hack to ideate and produce innovative, marketing, design or tech solutions for nonprofit(s) or/and founder(s).
In the end, you will have volunteered to produce a functional, useful, innovative solution.
Your solutions will enable the nonprofit(s) or startups to scale better, and faster with their audience.
Support & Innovate
Share your impact
Vote for the best solution pitch
Give out badges and recognitions to teams, peers, and mentors!
Welcome to a new world of innovation!
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Students out of university and boot camps
Young professionals
Mentors from ally companies
Nonprofits and Communities
HR, DEI, CSR, ESG, ERG, Recruiting & startup leads
Artists
Educational Partners
Avocademy
Bottega University
Flatiron School
FullStack Academy / Grace Hopper
General Assembly
Girl Develop It
NYU
nPower
Opentree Education
Per Scholas
The Tech Academy
Sponsoring allies
PTC,
Scope Art
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1 . Nonprofit: Global Deeds
Main idea: Supporting Students to create their own nonprofit or act for their community.
Context: Global Deeds supports all students, but some are LatinX. During this specific Equalithon, we will support LatinX ones, before supporting others in the future and rotating.
Challenge 1: Global Deeds Platform. Empower students to create their project, by themselves => see the blueprint of the platform GD built in the past, and reuse it. For GD, users are students who want to create projects in their community or want to become teachers; and schools who want to give scholarships, and companies who want to hire; as well as resource pages for students: related to under-represented communities and a training selection: training students to become teachers.
Challenge 2: Platform Module: Branding. Global deeds needs to create content that shows public recognition for students that participate in Global Deeds programs, empower them to search for grant money and investors. Help them to develop programs with schools, high schools, universities. Invent tech that can support branding. When creating a project, people need to create content: blurbs, pictures, their challenges, tik tok videos. Then easily sharable, and automated Reporting on what’s been achieved: number of students registered, projects finished, jobs given, and invite users to create content during the reporting phase: to finalize a project, people need to create xyz content.
Scope in practice: prioritize challenge 1.
2. Founder: Yolaris Garcia
Main Idea: Develop a new way for people to avoid neck pain.
Context: There are hundreds of millions of people working in front of computers everyday. Most suffer from neck pain after a few years.
Challenge 3 : New website https://www.awesomechiropractic.com/ . Yolaris’ SEO needs improvements. She’d like to revamp her digital marketing, website design, and add a few things.
Challenge 4: New chiropractic product. Ideation stage. Think of a product used by patients, connected to an app on their phone, with data potentially shared with doctors. Set up requirements, design, and prototype.
3. Artists: Transform LatinX artworks into iconic art for the LatinX community.
Main idea: leverage NFT smart contracts to transform Art into a new vector of donations and influence for a community.
Context: NFTs have suffered a lot from their initial bubble but still have the power to transform the art market and art itself.
Challenge 5: Build a NFT platform that creates a specific smart contract for money redistribution over time, enables the sales of the artworks, and markets the artworks over time.
Challenge 6: build a marketing system that informs LatinX communities about these pieces of art, lets them participate in the lifecycle of these artworks one way or another, and keeps them informed of the life of the artwork.
Event Timeline (Calendar and details lower)
Timeline will be added later.
All times are given in US EST (NYC time)
Location: entirely remote except noted otherwise.
Recurring Allies
Allies
Keynote speakers
Kameelah Benjamin-Fuller | PTC, Chief Diversity Officer
Paula Hudson | PTC, Principal, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Kelley Ndoye | Scope Art, Executive Director and Finance VP
Katherine Montero | Global Deeds, Executive Director
Nonprofit Partners
We are very grateful to Nonprofit partners supporting BIPOC, Women, LGBTQ, Latinx andHispanics, Seniors, Foreigners in the workplace and their allies - as well as environmental causes and Happiness more generally.
In this Equalithon:
TechQueria: $500 will be given to Techqueria. Learn more.
“Techqueria is a nonprofit that serves the largest global community of Latinx professionals in the tech industry.”
Latinas in Tech: $500 will be given to Latinas in Tech. Learn more.
”Latinas in Tech is a non-profit organization with the mission to connect, support and empower Latina women working in tech.”
Global Deeds: a project supporting all students, led by a Latina, Katherine Montero. Learn more
“Global Deeds is devoted to disrupting the cycle of poverty by assisting schools, nonprofits, and corporations to empower disadvantaged youth.”
Past nonprofits partners supported:
Adelante Student Voices (LatinX)
Beyond the Talk (BIPOC)
Blacks in tech (BIPOC)
Blended Communities (Accessibility)
Code for America (COVID 19)
Girl Develop It (Women)
Episo Foundation (Women, Incarcerated)
Felt Education (Refugees Inclusion)
French American Chamber (Foreigners)
Institute for Career Transitions (Ageism)
Listen First (Rural Gap, Bipartisanism)
NaamHouse (Veterans, Accessibility)
Open Police Complaints (BIPOC, Police Violence)
ParentPreneurs Black Founders (BIPOC)
Parity Productions (Women, LGBTQ, Artists)
Premiere Urgence International (COVID 19)
Protest Away (BIPOC, All communities)
Startout (LGBTQIA+)
Stanford Pride (LGBTQIA+)
Safe Place International (LGBTQIA+)
Sanitation Foundation, NYC DoS (Environment)
TechQueria (LatinX)
The King Center MLK (BIPOC)
The Serenity Project (Women, Mental Health)
US Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans)
WCAPS (Women, Mental Health)
Women Who Code (Women)
In-Kind Allies
Airtable for their support to BIPOC-led companies (of which ourselves)
Bubble for no code discount and instructors during EqualiCamps
Chatterworks for enabling access to tons of Tech talent
Hypedocs to join an Essteem-pod: peers who support each other, weekly
Slidebean to create great presentations for teams
Sojo Signal for free personalized coaching from our Slack
Twilio and Sendgrid for text and email contact opportunities
How this Equalithon works
Tracks
You can choose among the following, depending on your skills or your interests. For instance, if you are a developer, you are welcome to participate in the Marketer & Project Manager’s event. If you are a Marketer, it might however be harder to participate in a developer’s event - but you can also provide support there as well.
Altogether events. Anyone should attend these events: ask questions to the nonprofits and founders, show support to the teams and meet each other.
Marketer and Project Managers events. Events to qualify the requirements of nonprofits and founders, and plan for in-product and other kinds of marketing.
Designers events. Events to leverage your design skills, for instance, to prepare a website’s design, according to the specs given by PMs or the previous group, or to prepare an artist’s webpage using a CMS for an NFT-a-thon.
Developer events. Work with other developers primarily and data scientists, working altogether or by themselves to implement the solutions defined and designed previously.
Artist events. Events for artists
Mentors/Partners/Sponsors events. Events dedicated to these kinds of stakeholders so we can organize, onboard, or connect them with each other.
Calendar
A calendar will be added later in 2023
Events for you - by track
Role-based tracks: click to see events relevant for you:
NFT-a-thon, events:
A rewarding experience
Why participate?
Get exposure with potential recruiters, and volunteering, remote teamwork experience.
Connect
Meet tech professionals as peers or mentors, and build up a long-lasting network
Impact
Experience a new way to give back, change the world, endorse, engage, and mentor.
Code
Experience working on a team & crediting contributors. Prove your tech and leadership skills.
Grow
Get meaningful experience and tips to boost your career, learn, innovate, or get hired.
Proud of your talent
We support your talent brand through dedicated
job opportunities & tips,
certificates & achievement badges,
resume support coaching & resume videos.
Mentors feedback
Why participate?
Actually impact
This quarter Impact a cause in ~3 hours of your time*.
Scale nonprofits
Empower millions of people
Launch founders
Enable artists
How?
Just Show Up!!
Or leverage skills.
Anyone finds a role
with our onboardings.
Empathize
with underserved communities.
Enable
a unique experience mixing art and tech.
*Note: Your time commitment will vary depending on the events and challenges you choose to attend. Ranges vary rom 1 hour to 3-4 hours per month. Agenda volatility? just let us know and we’ll adapt to you.