Technical Mentorship: Guide teams through workflows,  programming challenges, data visualization techniques, bioinformatics techniques, or public health analysis methods. Your expertise could help participants navigate everything from GitHub collaboration to statistical modeling.

Challenge & Dataset Curation: Recommend compelling public datasets, suggest realistic but impactful problem statements, or identify emerging areas in genomics/public health that would benefit from fresh perspectives.

Judging & Evaluation: Assess final projects considering both technical rigor and potential community impact. We're particularly interested in recognizing work that demonstrates strong methodology, reproducibility, and real-world applicability.

You can choose to contribute as a mentor, curator, or judge. Please note that you cannot serve as both a mentor and a judge - these roles have a conflict of interest, as mentors work directly with teams whose projects judges later evaluate. However, you're welcome to combine the curator role with either mentoring or judging if you're interested in multiple ways to contribute.

This hackathon advances open scholarship by providing BIPOC community college students with access to tools typically reserved for research universities, creating reusable educational resources, fostering cross-institutional collaboration, and generating new insights from public datasets through transparent and reproducible methodologies.

You can participate in any combination of these roles that align with your interests and availability. Even limited involvement would significantly benefit our participants and the broader goal of democratizing access to computational research.