In one of our best hackathons yet, 55 students from Chandler-Gilbert Community College met on campus to create games teaching impressionable grade-school kids healthy lifestyle choices and information regarding fitness and wellness. Those students broke into 10 teams and created the proof-of-concept demos below from scratch over the course of this fast-paced 24-hour gamejam. Tutorials and breaks aside, these students had a mere 16 hours of development time.
Volunteers from Intel, faculty from CGCC, hackathon veteran student mentors, and subject matter experts guided these creative students – most having little to no previous experience with JavaScript – through the self-driven learning process, with many of them getting their games playable on mobile devices!
Huge thanks to all the volunteers who made this event a success:
- Intel Volunteers
- David Baker – organizer, ideation leader
- Erica McEachern – project manager
- Ashish Datta – lead mentor, demo leader
- Shafiul Islam – room-specific mentor
- Gigi Marsden – logistics (and her son as a mentor)
- Sowmya Ravichandran – floating mentor
- Suresh Golwalkar – floating mentor
- Robert Alvarez – floating mentor
- Ed Langlois – floating mentor
- CGCC Volunteers
- Patricia Baker – facilitator, gracious hostess
- Cindy Barnes Pharr – facilitator, facility queen
- Margie Gomez – fresh-perspective blogger
- Richard Woodward-Roth – room-specific mentor
- Mark Underwood – floating mentor
- Colton Riffel – student mentor
- Other Volunteers
- Chris Moody – lead mentor, co-blogger
- Andrew Datta – feedback wrangler, co-blogger
- Fabian Hinojosa – photographer
- Sunny Liu – room-specific mentor
- Subject Matter Experts
- Robin Sprouse – nutrition expert
- Amy Widmeyer – nutrition expert
- Dr. Greg Trone – fitness expert
Some pictures from the event are posted to the Facebook page.
The gallery below with playable versions of the demos is available as a zip file (download, unzip to a folder, run the cgccHKHgames.html file in the top directory – preferably in Google Chrome).
CGCC Healthy Kids Hackathon
Nov 21-22 2014
These games were created by students from Chandler Gilbert Community College for the purpose of helping children learn healthy habits in nutrition and fitness
"Froot"
This app is meant to teach children the importance of good foods and portion control. It's similar to Fruit Ninja where you slash the good items and disregard the bad items.
"Health RPG"
An RPG centered around healthy eating and living for kids 6-11 years old.
"RUN"
Shopping for healthy food give more energy
"PAC2"
Our idea was to have PacMan eating good foods for a buff, junk foods result in slower movement speed
"Unstoppable Weight Loss Tactics"
A simple fitness tracker aimed at a young audience, "Unstoppable" features a leveling system on the fitness tracker and progress saving.
"Food Facts"
Drag food onto character for points and information
"Little Chef's"
Game on picking healthy food on your plate for kids of 4 - 8 years old.The game displays healthy and unhealthy food choices. The player gets to pick the food choices. Sad and happy faces appear based on their choice.
"World of Storecraft"
Aid youth in benefits and consequences of their dietary choices
"Gone Bananas"
Our app is created to help children ages 6-11 to have fun learning about a and living a healthy lifestyle including the right diet and physical activity
"Food Ninja"
Catching healthy foods for points.
Brad Hill
Engineering Director of Student/Indie Hackathons
Intel – SSG-DRD Core Client Scale Engineering
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