Mobile developers, coders and hackers from across the country are being challenged to create an app that facilitates social change through sport at the inaugural Sport England Sport Technology Awards Hackathon.
The Hackathon, which takes place over 25 hours on 2 – 3 October 2015, will see teams given just 24 hours to develop a concept that encourages a particular demographic group to be more physically active.
During that time, the teams (which have to include at least one woman), will have to determine their concept and an initial prototype, with the last hour of the Hackathon given over to concept presentation and judging.
Judges will select the best three ideas from the day, with the winning concept being announced at The Sports Technology Awards in April 2016.
Sport England’s Director of Business Partnerships Tanya Joseph said ‘Sport and technology both have an amazing power to bring together people from different backgrounds. I am hoping that the combination of the two will have a real impact. The Hackathon will use this generation’s tech gurus to create an app to benefit the next generation. We encourage anyone with any coding or app development skills to get involved and be a part of this exciting initiative.’
Rebecca Hopkins, CEO of The Sports Technology Awards, added ‘The Hackathon is an exciting move forward both for the awards and the sports tech sector. Thanks to Sport England, we have been able to create an element of the awards that have real purpose and reflect the fact that we are at the heart of change within the sector. We are very excited to see what the coders devise – and who knows, once the app has been fully developed, we may yet see the winner back at future Sports Technology Awards.’
The Hackathon is free to enter and is open to all UK residents over the age of 18. Applications to take part close at 5pm on 11 September 2015 with successful teams having their place on the Hackathon confirmed on 18 September 2016.
To enter, register your interest here and a member of the Sports Technology Hackathon team will be in touch shortly.
For more information, please contact Yasmin Patel on Yasmin@sportstechnologyawards.com or 020 020 7118 1288
