On September 7, 2024, Bay-Hacks, a collaboration between Milpitas Hacks and Regent Hacks, was held. This event welcomed both high school and middle school students, drawing over 200 participants eager to innovate and collaborate. Featuring four distinct tracks—Code for Cause, education, healthcare, and cybersecurity—the hackathon offered a platform for young talent to demonstrate their creativity and technical skills.
For the Code for Cause Track, we collaborated with Youth4Good, a large nonprofit organization working with over 500 volunteers from all over the world. They organize many in-person community events, like park cleanups, food bank assistance, homeless shelter meals, and tutor students internationally. The goal of this project was to develop a system to spread information throughout the organization that can help them manage and share information about upcoming events with volunteers. Participants were suggested to implement some features like the ability to see future events, chat rooms for each event, and more. At this hacakthon, we tried to inspire more creativity by keeping the app open ended wit hthe ability to add and change features as need be.
The participants at BayHacks rose to the challenge, presenting a variety of innovative projects. The winning team—comprising ...
The judges for the Code for Cause Track included one of the Youth4Good's founder, volunteers, and Code for Cause's own Anshay Chandrupatla, Mithil Patil, and Atharv Deshmukh. They were thoroughly impressed by the talent and dedication of all the participants. The winning team, in collaboration with Youth4Good, will refine and complete the app, which will be used by Youth4Good to organize and manage the volunteers for future events.
As we continue to expand our partnership model, we look forward to empowering more students and nonprofits, creating lasting impacts in our communities.