**Running the Malaysian Hackathon from a backend perspective**

**Week One** 

__**Day 1: Monday**__
  * In person Registration
  * Welcome speech/ Introduction to hackathon (overview, goals, rules, and expectations)
      * Question period 
  * Presentation on green IT (by sponsors or partners or collaborators)
      * Question period 
  * Lunch 
  * Icebreaker activities and team formation
  * Concluding talk

__**Day 2: Tuesday**__
  * Introduction to SusAF
      * Questions
      * SusAF practice on existing technologies (~1 hour)
  * Lunch
  * Explanation on how the workshops will function
      * These will serve to assist students with comprehension of technologies
  * Team work on background research on topics
      * Start considering teams brainstorming based on background research 

__**Day 3: Wednesday**__
  * Workshop on project planning and management
  * Teams work on the idea phase 
      * This should be based on the background research they conducted
  * Lunch
  * Team should have a general idea of their solution
  * Teams work on a high level prototype their solution
     * Using tools such as figma

__**Day 4: Thursday**__
  * Teams finish their high level prototype
  * Team work on a small presentation on their idea
      * This will be a 15 min presentation on their plan for the hackathon
      * Presentations should include the SusAF diagrams 
  * Lunch
  * Teams present 
      * Modifications of ideas and prototype based on the feedback provided 


__**Day 5: Friday**__
  * Team preparation for the development portion of the hackathon
      * Setting up required technologies
  * Lunch
  * Beginning of the development portion
  * Concluding talk by the hosts for the end of the first week
      * This should also act to keep students motivated, and create excitement to start week two on the following monday


**Week Two** 

__**Day 8: Monday**__
  * Brief introductory talk for the beginning of the second week
  * Teams will continue to work on the development portion of their ‘solution’
      * Progress updates should be pushed at a minimum once a day to some platform such as github. Hosts should have access to team repositories 
      * Teams should be focused on creating an overall ‘skeleton’ of their tool at this stage
  * Lunch
  * Teams will continue to work on development

__**Day 7: Tuesday**__
  * Teams will continue to work on the development of their solution
  * Mid-hackathon progress talks and feedback with hosts
      * Individual progress talks with each team. 
          * No presentations required
  * Teams should make modifications based on feedback if needed
  * Lunch
  * Teams should continue to work on development, with a goal to have at a minimum, the ‘skeleton’ completed by the end of the day
      * After this is completed, teams should work on the functionality of their solution

__**Day 8: Wednesday**__
  * Teams should work on adding the functionality to their skeleton  
  * Lunch
  * Team will continue to work on development 
  * Start working on presentations and demos


__**Day 9: Thursday**__
  * Final bug fixes and feature enhancements
      * Hosts can assist with guidance on bugs teams are struggling heavily with (if needed)
          * Guidance will be provided. Not solutions to the bugs 
  * Lunch
  * Teams should be finishing the development phase
  *  Dry run of presentations with mentors

__**Day 10: Friday**__
  * Demo day presentations/ Pitching session
  * Lunch
  * Closing Ceremony (Winner announcement)
  * Feedback collection from participants and mentors (online form)
  * Networking event



**Workshops available (In Person / Virtual):**

__**Week 1**__

Planning Workshop
  * Agile (SCRUM)
  * Tools that can be used eg GitHub Projects.JIRA , Figma etc
Design Workshops
  * Principles of user-centered design
  * Prototyping tools (Figma)
  * Creating accessible interfaces.
  * Designing for sustainability
  * User behavior impact on energy consumption

__**Week 1 - 2**__ 

Development Workshops (optional)
  * Web Development Basics
      * HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics, 
      * Frameworks (React, Next)
      * Best practices.
  * Mobile App Development
      * Fundamentals of Flutter
  * Backend Development Fundamentals
      * Server setup
      * RESTful APIs
      * Database management (SQL, NoSQL)
      * Backend frameworks (Node.js, Django, Flask)
      * Best Practices

__**Week 2**__

Green Coding Practices
  * Introduction to sustainable coding practices
  * Energy-efficient algorithms
  * Eco-friendly design principles
Integration and Deployment  Workshop
  * CI/CD
  * Cloud Deployments
  * Scaling Infrastructure
  * Best practices for integrating web and mobile applications, API integration

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