About the challenge

The Afropix 2025 Hackathon is focused on creating compelling visualizations and software that highlight African American achievements across various fields. Participants will work in teams of 2-4 members to develop projects that showcase historical contributions, educational progress, cultural impact, and other significant achievements in the African American community.

Key Details:

 

  • Teams must create original work during the hackathon
  • Open-source libraries and APIs are permitted and encouraged
  • AI tools like GPT are allowed, but participants should understand and be able to explain their code
  • Each team will have 3 minutes to present their project to the judges
  • Projects will be evaluated on relevance, visualization effectiveness, creativity, technical implementation, and practical impact

Get started

Here's some skills and knowledge that might be helpful to learn:

Data Analysis and Visualization:

  • Python with libraries like Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, Pandas, and NumPy
  • Jupyter Notebooks for interactive development
  • Tableau for creating dashboards
  • Excel for basic data manipulation
  • R for statistical computing
  • JavaScript libraries like D3.js for web visualizations
  • React.js and Next.js for full stack applications

Version Control:

  • Git for code management and collaboration
Team Formation

 

  • Teams will consist of 2-4 members
  • A 20-minute team-building session will be held at the start
  • Organizers and volunteers will help match participants based on complementary skills

Requirements

What to Build

Your project should focus on visualizing or showcasing African American achievements. You may also build anything related to Afro-futurism. Here are some project ideas to inspire you:

Historical Focus:

  • Interactive timeline of Black innovations and scientific contributions
  • Visualization of educational attainment and STEM participation trends
  • Cultural impact heatmaps showing influence of African American artists and musicians

Current Impact:

  • Economic empowerment visualizations of Black-owned businesses
  • Health outcomes and improvements in African American communities
  • Political representation trends
  • STEM achievement highlights
  • Sports milestone achievements

Remember to:

 

  • Focus on creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Ensure your visualization effectively communicates the data
  • Add your unique perspective to make the project stand out
  • Consider the practical impact and usefulness of your visualization

What to Submit

Your final submission on DevPost must include:

  1. Demo Video (1-3 minutes)
    • Showcase your project's key features
    • Explain how it works
    • Highlight the impact and insights
  2. Project Story
    • Explain your motivation for choosing the topic
    • Describe the challenges you tackled
    • Share what you learned
    • Discuss potential future improvements
  3. GitHub Repository Link
    • Include a comprehensive README with:
      • Project overview
      • Installation instructions
      • How to run the project
      • Technologies used
      • Team member contributions
    • Ensure your code is well-organized and documented
    • Make the repository public

 

Remember that judges will evaluate your submission based on relevance to the theme (20%), visualization effectiveness (25%), creativity (20%), technical implementation (15%), and practical impact (20%).

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
Varied, on the Instagram
3 winners

Varied, split amongst the team that wins.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

UNC BiT

UNC BiT

UNC NSBE

UNC NSBE

UNC TechX

UNC TechX

Judging Criteria

  • Confidential

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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