@HackCT: Director, Transportation Hackathon.
(NoRTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT)
Led and executed inaugural HackCT transportation hackathon aimed at fostering innovative solutions for public transit challenges in the region, attracting over 100 participants across 3 days, featuring notable speakers such as Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, and State Senator Mae Flexer. Responsible for building hackathon from concept to reality, managing a team and logistics, formulating strategies for community growth, offline and online engagement, stakeholder outreach, media storytelling to raise awareness and support for the transportation initiatives.
Established and nurtured a 50+ member online community on Discord, fostering ongoing conversations and collaboration among industry professionals, government representatives, and technology leaders from organizations such as the US Census Bureau, GitHub, and UConn. Facilitated ideation sessions and ‘Shark Tank’ style evaluations of solutions by industry experts, leading to the development of seven GitHub project repositories built to solve for each challenge presented in the region’s transportation system.
WSHU: Connecticut’s quiet corner gets loud with transit solutions
Nonprofits in Connecticut’s quiet northeast corner are collaborating to find ways to improve the region's transportations problems. On Thursday, members of the Nonprofit Alliance of Northeast Connecticut (NANC) brought together a wide range of local organizations to examine how regional transit resources can be modified, or even explore creating new methods such as hackathons.
GitHub: 6 Primary TRANSPORTATION Challenges Facing NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT
Over the course of three days, six teams competed to see who could come up with the best regional transportation solution across six key challenge areas: the Infrastructure Act, walkable streets and bike lanes, last-mile solutions, GPS on buses, cross-border initiatives and optimizing rider data.
HackCT: An Exploration into Open-Source Solutions for Rural Mobility
One of the primary objectives of HackCT is to leverage the power of open-source technologies for creating long-lasting solutions. Open-source platforms foster community collaboration, allow for continuous improvement, and offer the flexibility to adapt to different contexts and requirements. These attributes make open-source technology an ideal candidate for tackling the complex issue of rural transportation.