Cillers Hackathon Podcast - Amna Hassan
Cillers Developer Experience · Per Lange
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Show Notes
Meet Amna Hassan—a skilled developer specializing in games, web, and AI. She also teaches and mentors at Stanford's Code in Place program. Amna has won numerous hackathons, including Harvard's 2024 CS50 Puzzle Day, and has competed in over 20 international hackathons. Additionally, she serves as a project administrator for SereniFy, an open-source app featured in Girlscript's Summer of Code Extended.
In this episode, we discuss her journey in the world of hackathons and strategies for winning them. We delve into specific events such as the Google Cloud AI Hackathon, Open Source Hackathon, and Harvard's 2024 CS50 Puzzle Day. We also explore how to plan and execute each phase of a hackathon, from the idea phase and prototyping to presentations, and what to consider at each stage.
Furthermore, we discuss various approaches to structuring the mentorship layer in a hackathon, and why one method stands out as the absolute best.
Resources:
iCodeGuru: https://icode.guru/
Hack2Skill: https://vision.hack2skill.com/
Paul Graham AI Bot: https://lablab.ai/event/strawberry-reasoning-with-o1/guardians-of-the-galaxy/paul-graham-founder-mode-ai-app?review=true