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Students Tackle Global Warming at VelocityX: Climate Innovation Hackathon, Earn $12,000 in Prizes

As climate change impacts our lives and environment, how will we share the information that people will need to make decisions? This was the question that 25 participants from the College of Southern Maryland (CSM), local high schools and other colleges recently grappled with as they competed for prizes from a $12,000 pool at the VelocityX: Climate Innovation Hackathon at CSM’s Velocity Center in Indian Head. “We really want to focus on an issue that could resonate with students and this region,” said Ollie Gerland, director of strategy and product for Ensemble, who partnered with the Velocity Center to run the hackathon for the second year. The hackathon presented two challenges for participants to solve: the Data Visualization Challenge asked participants to create tools that show how sea level rise will impact coastal communities and infrastructure, such as roads and properties, while the Marketing Strategy Challenge required teams to develop a comprehensive marketing campaign to increase awareness of government resources and services available to residents and encourage them to take advantage of these resources. The teams chose one challenge to address and had two days to devise and create a prototype of their solution, which they then presented to a […]

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