Projects

During hackweeks we invite participants to collaborate in small group project teams (usually 5-7 people). Projects provide unique opportunities for networking, advancing research and learning new things. Guidance on group project development will be ongoing until the hackweek begins.

We encourage you to be creative in how you design your project work! Here are some ways people have used project time in the past:

• focus on learning: dive deeper into tutorial content and gain more hands on experience with new tools

• focus on community building: hackweeks bring people together for the first time and projects are used to build social fabric and foster open science

• focus on research: people often work to advance a research challenge using tools shared during the event. This often includes ongoing graduate and postgraduate investigations.

• focus on creating new tools: hackweeks often expose general community software needs. Projects can be the catalyst for new community libraries.

Project development timeline:

• pre-hackweek: brainstorming ideas for projects with other participants in our discussion platform

• day one: pitching of ideas and selection of a project to work on

• by morning day two: create a Github repository in our hackweek GitHub organization and start coding and working on tasks!

• last day: presentation of your project work. What did you create? What did you learn?

Examples of previous PACE projects can be found on the 2024 PACE HackWeek website and 2024 OceanHackWeek.