The Hackathon.The two-day intensive problem-solving event invites interdisciplinary student teams to creatively challenge the status quo of consumption in high density living. By rethinking our relationships with food, students are offered the opportunity to question, test and instigate behavioural change.
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Food waste costs Australia an estimated $20 billion a year. Australia has a national target to halve food waste by 2030. OzHarvest have so far contributed to this target by harvesting quality excess food from commercial outlets. Yet change is required at all levels of society and it starts with changing our behaviour at home. Half of all food waste comes from the home. On average a third of household bin is wasted food. With relatively low prices, and constant supply, we have lost our connection to where it comes from, and its true value.
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Day ONE8.30 am Breakfast + Registrations
9.00am Welcome 9.45am Team Formation ‘Speed Dating’ 10.00am Morning Tea 10.15am Expert panel Pecha Kucha ‘Live Research’ 11.00am Expert panel Q&A ‘Live Research’ 11.30am Expert panel ‘Live Research’ 12.00pm Lunch 1.00pm Groupwork - mentors ‘Obstacles and Gaps’ 1.30pm Groupwork - mentors ‘Divergent Ideation’ 2.45pm Afternoon Tea 3.00pm Groupwork - mentors ‘Convergent Ideation’ 3.45pm Re-group and Reflect 4.00pm End of Day 1 |
Day TWO8.30 am Breakfast
9.00am Re-group and Reflect 9.05am Groupwork with mentors ‘Feasibility’ 10.00am Morning Tea 10.15am Groupwork with mentors ‘Testing’ 12.00pm Lunch 1.00pm Pitch Training 1.30pm Groupwork with mentors ‘Pitching’ 2.45pm Afternoon Tea 3.00pm Pitches commence 4.00pm Judges review 4.30pm Presentation of awards 5.00pm Feedback Marketplace 6.00pm End of Day 2 |
Pecha Kucha - Live ResearchTwo innovative formats are offered at the event to generate more innovative outcomes from the students. The first is a ‘live research’ forum whereby students are asked to rethink the notion of research. Rather that begin the event with static data sets that can lead to preconceived ideas, the students are instead exposed to new ways of thinking via a live expert panel session. Stakeholders share provocations in a Pecha Kucha (3 slides, 3 minutes) and then debate the issue from multiple perspectives. Students have the opportunity to pose questions to the panel via Slido. This enables a safe and open environment for critical debate, particularly from students who are typically quiet in large groups or for whom English is a second language and may not usually contribute in large forums.
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Hack Hats - Intrinsic SkillsThe second example of driving innovation within the hackathon is through experimenting with ‘hack hats’. Typically in interdisciplinary teams students cluster according to their discipline and view their program-specific knowledge as the driver behind their contributions. However, in the OzHarvest Grand Challenge students are asked to consider their behavioural strengths and weaknesses and adopt a contributory hat according to behavioural roles identified in the team make-up of successful startups. ‘Hack hats’ include roles such as ‘the nitty gritty’ who focuses on detailed forecasting and ‘the left field’ who throws unexpected ideas into brainstorming sessions. Resultant ideas are thus multidimensional in strategy and more far reaching in impact.
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CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS
Proposals are judged according to three criteria:
Idea, Impact, Feasibility
THE PROPOSALS
Community Pantry (winning proposal)
Sasha Ahrens
Ben Cai Jamie Chen Mei Iwato Ellen Liu Greta Ritchard |
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Gate to Plate (runner up)
Sophie Griffiths
Jamilla de Jonge James Li Aashna Mittal Shirlee Salaria Yuxin (Cynthia) Wang |
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Digi FridgeRoyston Fong
Sameer Mahar Supujitha Reddy Veluru Jason Zheng Rui (Susan) Zhou |
WTF TruckGianfelix Goenawan
Reuben Roy Tany Tan Judy Yang Yue Zheng |
Smart ChuteAlex Cheung
Rozy Dorizas Ben Meng Nitya Mohan Oscar Pagden Parisa Zare |
PopUp PantryHe Jiang
Ghoorisha Kissoondoyal Mabelle Geo Tay Saskia Wibowo Sarah Yeriko |
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