SDE Skills Hackathon 2025: AI-Driven Innovations with SDESkills' Educational Video Content.

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The AI-Driven Educational Innovations Hackathon is a virtual event dedicated to transforming SDESkills' extensive library of over 1,000 hours of educational YouTube content into innovative tools. Participants will leverage distributed cloud computing and artificial intelligence to develop secure solutions that enhance accessibility, engagement, and learning outcomes for software development engineers.

Problem Statement

How can AI and distributed cloud computing transform SDESkills' YouTube content into secure, engaging, and accessible learning tools for software engineers?

About the Organizers

SDESkills is a volunteer-led, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to bridging the gap between the skills job seekers possess and those needed to excel in software development engineering. Established in 2010, SDESkills offers resources and support to help individuals maintain and enhance their technical skills. The organization fosters a community-driven approach, emphasizing consistency, reliability, and inclusivity in all its programs.

Why Participate?

Innovate: Contribute to the evolution of educational content through AI-driven solutions.
Collaborate: Work alongside like-minded individuals in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
Learn: Gain hands-on experience with AI applications in education and receive feedback from industry experts.
Win: Compete for prizes and the opportunity to have your solution featured on SDESkills' platforms and social media pages.

Who can Participate?

To be eligible to enter the contest, you must be above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence. Contest is applicable to residents of USA and Canada.
You may submit your Project as a team or on behalf of an organization. Team size is limited to a maximum of four (4) individuals.

Schedule:

Submission Period: May 25 to June 23, 2025
Judging Period: June 24 to June 25, 2025
Winners Announced: June 26, 2025

Evaluation Criteria:

Innovative Idea (30%): Originality and potential impact of the concept.
User Experience (30%): Intuitiveness and accessibility of the user interface.
Technical Execution (20%): Quality of implementation and effective use of AI technologies.
Submission Quality and Presentation (20%): Clarity and effectiveness in communicating the project's value and impact.

What to Submit

Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission.
Provide a URL to your private code repository for judging and testing.
Include a detailed README.md
Share your submission with hackathon@sdeskills.com

SDE Skills Resources

Discord - We have more than 12,000 Engineers in our discord community getting guidance on latest distributed cloud computing technologies - https://SDESkills.com/discord
Meetups - Weekly meetups community of 5000 engineers with tech talks on distributed cloud computing, AI and latest trends - https://www.meetup.com/skillets/
Youtube - With 14,000 subscribers and growing, we have more than 800+ Videos, with over 1000+ hours of content. - http://youtube.com/sdeskills
LinkedIn - More than 1000 followers - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sdeskills/
GitHub - https://github.com/sde-skills/meetupHandoutsAndCode

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