PoliConnect, the Policy Award winners. In 31 hours the team created a platform to facilitate connection between policy makers and experts advice.
We are happy to announce an incredibly successful first-ever DC Science Hack Day!
Quick Statistics:
- Over 100 people attended
- Around 15 hackers stayed through the night
- 13 hacks were produced — details can be found on the wiki here: http://sciencehackday.pbworks.com/w/page/96114032/dchacks2015
- Incredible gender, age and race diversity. Ages 10 – 80!
- Government employees were highly represented — with lightning talks from EPA, NIH, State Department, NASA and participants from Department of Commerce, different branches of the military, OMB and NARA
Commons Labs favorite hacks (but they were all so incredible….):
- LickitySplit — citizen science to the rescue! This team 3D printed the casing for a spectrometer to analyze your spit instantly and visualize the data.
- If no one hears it — NASA scientists and arts team up to bring you an sound landscape of deforestation using freely available landsat data. Each tone represents a different type of deforestation.
- PoliConnect — a platform to anonymously connect policy makers with policy experts. The Commons Lab has invited this team to come back to the Wilson Center to demo their hack to a policy audience! Test it out here: http://www.policonnect.org/
Worthy social media streams to check out:
- Kennedy Center — https://instagram.com/artsedgekc/
- STIP — https://twitter.com/STIPidealab
- Commons Lab — https://twitter.com/STIPCommonsLab
In the coming weeks we will be putting out a publication highlighting each hack and why these types of open participation models are important to every field, not just to science and technology. Stay tuned.
Our amazing judges for the event (L-R): Lakita Edwards, NEA; Steven Kostant, TidePool Media; Ariel Waldman, Founder Science Hack Day; Beth Beck, NASA; Greg Godbout, EPA
