I helped organize Apocalypse, a zombie-apocalypse themed coding event where 150 high-school students built their wildest ideas.
It was 44 hours of coding, workshops, and crazy activities at Shopify’s Toronto office. We had lots of hardware, a custom card game, a custom PCB badge, and most impressively, an economy that evolved into something we did not expect.
This was a ambitious and unique event, and I’m so proud to be part of its creation.
As of writing, Apocalypse is the largest high-school hackathon in Canada, running overnight for 44 hours from May 17, with 150 participants, 40 projects shipped, and CA$48,000 in funding from Hack Club. Thank you to Hack Club, Shopify, our organizing team, and our participants for making this event what it is.
I was responsible for the tech for the event. Specifically, I was the website developer and made sure project submission & voting systems worked, but I also organized and tracked of our budget. Be on the lookout for a write-up on these! I’m really proud of the event schedule page.
P.S. I’m now leading Ragnohacks, the first high school in-person hackathon in Ottawa. The team is still working on the site, but you can sign up for updates here.