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Bulgaria: HackTues

25.09.2024

Hack TUES is one of the key events for TUES in which students from the school in teams of 3-5 participants create from scratch their own IT project on a given topic within two days and then present it to a professional jury of teachers and IT specialists.

The hackathon gives participants the opportunity to improve their programming skills, teamwork and presentation of the finished project. They work under the mentorship of professionals from the IT business, and sometimes these acquaintanceships grow into offers of practice and internship. The organizers, in turn, learn a lot about the process of organizing such an event and strongly develop their soft skills. By interacting with the sponsors, jury, mentors and volunteers, they develop a clear picture of the real working environment.

This is the first hackathon in Bulgaria organized by students for students. The event started in 2015 and has had nine editions so far. Every year Hack TUES is organized by an organizing team of 11th grade students who work on the event under the mentorship of ASTUES.

Consideration of the main problems of society
The event is also very special for the participants.Because they know each other, they strive to succeed and make it to the finish line. The theme of the hackathon changes every year and is related to the major issues facing society. The last two editions were dedicated to aerospace and environmental problems, respectively, and participants proposed innovative solutions to these problems. these included educational games, embedded systems for collecting samples or cleaning up trash, and machine learning (ML) solutions that help analyze the probability of a successful landing of an aircraft.
Hack TUES at UNESCO
Hack TUES, the iconic hackathon organised by students for students, has found its place among UNESCO’s innovative and promising practices for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This makes Hack TUES the only educational practice in Bulgaria to be included in this global initiative.

Read the incredible story of its latest edition with a Security theme here.
Upcoming editions and further information can be found at https://hacktues.bg/

Details

Website

Target audience

Digital skills in education

Digital technology

Artificial Intelligence

Digital skills

Software Engineering

Level

Basic

Middle

Advanced

Funding of the good practice

Public

 

Type of initiative of the good practice

Local initiative

Country providing the good practice

Bulgaria

Organisation providing the good practice

TU-SOFIA

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