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What to Expect
This year there are so many ways to enjoy the weekend. A variety of workshops, drop-in creative stations and community building activities will keep you busy while you make new friends and learn new skills. Please use our keys (STEM, Empowered, Crafty, Collaborative) to map out your adventures. Don't forget to leave time to try all the drop-ins too!
| STEM This Maggie-Bot will engage in activities related to technology, engineering, and problem-solving. These workshops aim to provide hands-on experiences, foster curiosity, and promote learning in STEM subjects. Some of these include: Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python | Dive into Cybersecurity: A TryHackMe Adventure | Collaboration & Problem Solving in Tech Teams | Data Visualization | Git & GitHub 101 |
| Empowered This Maggie-Bot will learn strategies to boost self-confidence and overcome imposter syndrome in male-dominated fields. Discover how to leverage your unique strengths and talents to thrive in any environment. Some of these include: Women Leaders in Program Management | Stop Doubting | Start Creating Empowering Women in STEM | LinkedIn Workshop |
| Crafty This Maggie-Bot wants to take a break from the digital world! By engaging in enriching crafting workshops designed to stimulate your senses, unleash creativity, and foster community connections. Some of these include: Silk-Screen Cards | Herbs and Fruit: The Art of Tisane Blending | Unlimited Coasters Hack | Candle-Making |
| Collaborative This Maggie-Bot wants to collaborate, forge meaningful connections, and participate in the community of innovators and creators. Explore diverse topics and engage in hands-on activities that will spark creativity, ignite dialogue, and leave a lasting impact. Some of these include: Mural planning | Stop Doubting, Start Creating | Herbs and Fruit: The Art of Tisane Blending |
Schedule Summary
| 8:30 AM | REGISTRATION | ||
| 9:00 AM | WELCOME | ||
| 10:00 AM | WORKSHOPS | Round 1 | ||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Mural planning Presented By: | Drop in and join us in working on a mural for the Women’s Hackathon outside on the porch outside of CATalyst. The central theme of the mural is the Hackathon itself. On Saturday 10:00-11:00 come to the design meeting if you want to contribute ideas to the mural itself. Otherwise stop by any time during the Hackathon to contribute to the established design! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | CATalyst Patio |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Designing for us Presented By: | We always strive for our products, services, environments, and programs to be inclusive. But where do we start? In this session, we will explore the Inclusive Engineering Framework and how simple considerations at the drawing board can lead to more empathetic design throughout the entire project lifecycle. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A, but consider bringing a project idea to apply the framework to! Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 125 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Women Leaders in Program Management Presented By: | A talk focused on mastering the art of effective leadership as women in the corporate world, alongside understanding how program management enhances daily operations. Throughout the session, we will impart practical insights, share compelling anecdotes, and delve into the transformative impact of these skills on your professional journey. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 117 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Stop Doubting, Start Creating Presented By: | How might you suspend self-judgment and start trusting your creative instincts? Let’s learn from each other and crowdsource creative strategies that work. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: 40 | ILC 119 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 3D Printing Presented By: | This small group workshop covers the basics of 3D printing on our Ultimaker machines. Consider bringing your file from our 3D scanning station! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop with Cura installed Attendance Cap: 10 | CATalyst Studios |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python Presented By: | Gain practical experience in Python as you delve into the fundamentals of data wrangling and visualization. This workshop provides hands-on guidance, teaching you how to efficiently read, explore, summarize, and visually represent data. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A personal laptop Attendance Cap: 25 | CATalyst Data Studio |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Silk-Screen Cards Presented By: | Get hands-on with Card Silk Screening! Learn to create custom cards using Cricut vinyl designs for unique, personalized creations. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: All materials provided. Consider coming with a simple, solid color design in mind to personalize your card! Attendance Cap: TBA | CATalyst Studios |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Herbs and Fruit: The Art of Tisane Blending Presented By: | Learn the basics of mixing and steeping an herbal tea or tisane blend. Participants will create a loose-leaf blend to take home. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: All supplies will be provided, but attendees may want to invest in a tea steeper and light-proof storage container for use afterwards! Attendance Cap: 20 | B250 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Dive into Cybersecurity: A TryHackMe Adventure STEM | Join us for a one-hour workshop exploring top cybersecurity learning platforms, including TryHackMe. Together we'll tackle a Capture-The-Flag (CTF) activity on TryHackMe. Beginners are absolutely welcome! Together we'll learn how to navigate these platforms for hands-on learning and connect with like-minded cybersecurity enthusiasts. At the end a hand out will be provided with a list of resources for further learning. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop and a free TryHackMe account are encouraged but not required (https://tryhackme.com/) Attendance Cap: 20 | ILC 129 |
| 12:00 PM | LUNCH - Tumerico | Grab some Tumerico and consider exploring our drop-in activities hosted around CATalyst! Find a list of all available activities here. | |
| 1:00 PM | WORKSHOPS | Round 2 | ||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Your FLOSS-Powered Future Presented By: | Learn about non-proprietary operating systems and software that respect your autonomy and privacy, and can serve as the foundation of your digital life. Bring your questions! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 133 |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Intro to AI Presented By: | Have you heard of LLMs and Chat GPT? Would you like to know how these work? Would you like to create your own pocket GPT yourself? In this workshop you will learn everything about deep learning. We will start with how deep learning works fundamentally and by the end of the workshop, you will be building your own Chat bot. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Python programming ability.
Attendance Cap: 100 | ILC 141 |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Collaboration & Problem Solving in Tech Teams Presented By: | Emphasizing collaboration and problem-solving, our workshop harnesses FigJam to drive engagement. Master FigJam's collaborative functionalities through interactive, hands-on tasks that will elevate your team's effectiveness and inventive capacity. Transform how your team approaches projects and interacts, with us as your guide! Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate Materials Needed: Laptop or tablet that connects to internet Attendance Cap: 30 | ILC 119 |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Unlimited Coasters Hack Presented By: | Basic Knitting Workshop for Beginners: learn how to get started in knitting with a basic long tail cast on and off; knit, purl, and slip stitches; and reading a knitting pattern. The workshop will provide a pattern for a coaster that attendees are free to follow. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: All materials are provided Attendance Cap: 10 | B250 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Candle-Making Presented By: | Come join us for candle making! We'll be pouring small cacti garden candles and painting/dipping stick candles. No experience required and all materials are included! Please feel free to stop by! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: 10 | CATalyst Patio |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Git & GitHub 101 Presented By: | Join our Git & Git 101 event for an interactive workshop on mastering Git basics. Learn to push your project to GitHub! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Laptop with reliable internet connection. You are encouraged to come with Git already installed on your device. Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 125 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Intro to Adobe XD Presented By: | Adobe XD is the all-in-one UX/UI solution for designing websites, mobile apps and any screen-based digital interfaces. XD is easy to use and empowers designers of all skill levels to create interactive prototypes with speed, precision and quality to seamlessly iterate and share with team members and reviewers across devices and platforms. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A personal laptop
Attendance Cap: 15 | CATalyst Data Studio |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Towards Secure Cloud Environments Presented By: | Join a workshop led by a former Cloud Security Engineer, now a professor and researcher in the field. Learn about securing public clouds with hands-on experiences in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Laptops and some means of note-taking are encouraged Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 129 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | UArizona Girls Who Code Presented By: | Join the UArizona Girls Who Code Club as we host an open class session. Participants will get to learn more about the club and how to get involved and current club members will highlight youth-led projects. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Laptops are encouraged, but not necessary! Attendance Cap: 50 | B252/254 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Presented By: | Join us to diversify the representation of editors and articles in Wikipedia! Beginners welcome- we’ll guide you through the process of making an account and making edits. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A personal laptop or tablet Attendance Cap: N/A | A112 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Laser Cutting a Name Badge Presented By: | Experience the art of laser cutting by creating your personalized name tag at our workshop. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: 10 | CATalyst Studios |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Explore Drop-In Sessions! | If you have down time after your afternoon workshops, consider exploring our drop-in activities hosted around CATalyst! Find a list of all available activities here. | Main Library - 2nd Floor |
| 3:00 PM | Community Session | ||
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Keynote Inspiration, Community Mentoring & Networking Presented By: | This dynamic session will connect you to peers and mentors across our community, with inspirational activities designed to inspire and catalyze new ideas, partnerships and innovations. Kicking off the session is Keynote speaker Cindy Goldberg, VP of Silicon Alliances at Canonical: How does a background in biology and chemistry lead to leadership roles in semiconductor research, AI and open source software? Cindy will share highlights and lowlights from a winding career path, and my favorite blueprint to surmount the biggest challenges. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 141 |
Made it to the end of Saturday? Make sure you pick up your Hackathon tumbler at the Information Table before you head out! Consider personalizing it on Sunday during our tumbler design workshop!
| 8:30 AM | REGISTRATION | ||
| 9:00 AM | WORKSHOPS | Round 1 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Trailblazing transitions Presented By: | Embark on a tech adventure and learn about Salesforce in our workshop! Explore Trailhead, Salesforce's free learning platform, and master Flow business automation. Join us to unleash your software administrator potential from a librarian turned techy! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: An email address to be used to get set up with Trailhead Attendance Cap: 20 | ILC 119 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Resume Workshop Presented By: | Ready to develop or update your resume? Attend this session to learn about best practices for your resume to stand out in your next job or internship search. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A digital or paper copy of your current resume is encouraged! Attendance Cap: TBD | ILC 125 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 3D Printing STEM | This small group workshop covers the basics of 3D printing on our Ultimaker machines. Consider bringing your file from our 3D scanning station! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop with Cura installed Attendance Cap: 10 | CATalyst Studios |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Data Visualization Presented By: | Data Visualization is helpful in all stages of data analysis, from the first step (understanding the data) to data modeling and inferential analysis. We will be working with the Plotly Python module to create interactive quarto dashboards that allow for interactive data visualizations. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop or device with access to the internet (we will be using posit.cloud or RStudio desktop) Attendance Cap: N/A | A112 |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Making Prosperity Real: Designing an Interactive Process for Community Voice and Input Presented By: | The Pima County Prosperity Initiative is a regional effort to reduce generational poverty and increase opportunity and assets for low-income families, thereby expanding community prosperity. As a result of a year-long investigation, 13 policies were identified that shift the focus to longer-term, more upstream solutions. There is strong community input in shaping these policies, but now we need community input to implement these policies. We are creating the Prosperity Roadshow to both educate the community and gather feedback on what are their priorities and ideas for implementation in a fun and interactive way. We need your creativity and brain power to help us design the Roadshow to be both effective and engaging for the public. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | B252/254 |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Laser Cut Boxes Presented By: | Craft your own personalized wooden box! Discover laser cutting techniques to engrave and assemble custom boxes. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Laptop with Adobe Illustrator. Consider coming with a simple, solid color design in mind to personalize your box! Attendance Cap: TBD | CATalyst Studios |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | LinkedIn Workshop Presented By: | Attend this session to gain an introduction to creating a LinkedIn profile and also learn how to utilize the site to explore your options and enhance your network. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Laptops or tablets with access to the internet/a LinkedIn profile are encouraged. Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 125 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Resume Rx Presented By: | Join us for our Resume Rx Drop-In Clinic, where expert Career & Engagement Professionals will be on hand to provide personalized feedback and guidance on your resume. Whether you're just starting to build your professional profile or looking to fine-tune your existing document, stop by for a quick dose of career confidence! No appointments necessary! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A current resume, if you have one! Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 135 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Co-Designing Resources for Students Presented By: | Join us for a workshop where you can enhance your design thinking and radical imagination skills by helping to imagine better ways to connect fellow students with the resources they need to thrive (e.g., food, housing, clothing, finances). Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | B252/254 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Survival in our 21st Century High Tech Society Presented By: | This event will enrich your professional development and skills relating to the 21st century technology endeavors and assist you to collaborate and compete in Local to Global Technology Rich Hackathons. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A Attendance Cap: N/A | ILC 119 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Design Your Own Tumbler Presented By: | Get creative with your free tumbler earned on Saturday! Design your artwork, convert to vector, and laser-cut for a personalized masterpiece. No experience needed! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: N/A, tumblers will be given out to participants remaining at EOD Saturday Attendance Cap: N/A | CATalyst Data Studio |
| 11:00 PM | LUNCH - Baggins | Grab some Baggins and consider exploring our drop-in activities hosted around CATalyst! Find a list of all available activities here. | |
| 12:00 PM | WORKSHOPS | Round 2 | ||
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 3D Printing | This small group workshop covers the basics of 3D printing on our Ultimaker machines. Consider bringing your file from our 3D scanning station! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop with Cura installed Attendance Cap: 10 | CATalyst Studios |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Intro to Working w/ Data (Regular Expressions) Presented By: | Regular Expressions are a commonly used method for pattern-matching with textual data, especially for batch-processing and finding specific objects. In this workshop, we will go over the building blocks and learn how to assemble regular expressions. This activity is adapted from the Library Carpentry's "Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions)". Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A pen & paper Attendance Cap: 20 | ILC 119 |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | AI in the Real World: Programming Autonomous Robots Presented By: | Use the micro:bit single-board computer to program a robot to perform tasks without human input. You'll take on the challenge of following a line, solving a maze, avoiding obstacles, and choreographing a robotic dance. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A laptop with a modern browser Attendance Cap: 20 | ILC 125 |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Clothing Alterations Presented By: | Clothes not fitting right? Join the hackathon mending workshop! Learn to hem pants or shirts, fix small holes, and take in pants! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: Clothing items of your choice! Attendance Cap: 15 | CATalyst Studios |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Creative Coding Virtual Museum Presented By: | Come learn to make fun interactive visual art while learning to write code! We will also look at how to use Chat GPT prompts to ease our learning, and unleash our creativity. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A personal laptop Attendance Cap: 24 | CATalyst Data Studio |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Datathon Presented By: | Do you want to get hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing? In this datathon deep dive, we will be working with tweets about disasters. During this session, we will build a machine learning model to predict which Tweets are about real disasters and which are not. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: A personal laptop (or a friend with a laptop, since you will be able to work in groups) Attendance Cap: 50 | B252/254 |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Letterpress Presented By: | Come and experiment with hand printing with letterpress wood type! You will create your own print using wood type. All supplies will be provided. Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: All materials are provided. Attendance Cap: 12 | CATalyst Studios |
| 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Mural Making Presented By: | See our Hackathon mural to completion! Drop-in painting opportunities will be available throughout the weekend, but consider stopping by to help us wrap up the process and make your mark! Skill Level: Beginner Materials Required: All materials are provided. Attendance Cap: N/A | CATalyst Patio |
| 3:00 PM | CLOSING | ||
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Group Presentations | After your 3-hour afternoon sessions, we invite everyone to come together to present your accomplishments, celebrate the end of the Hackathon, and collect your final prizes! | ILC 141 |