Grow your cloud skills and harness the power of Azure, with services like AI, to amplify human capability for more than one billion people around the world with a disability.
Microsoft U.S. invites you to use your creativity, passion, and cloud expertise to create an Azure-powered solution in education to empower people living with a disability. This hackathon will specifically focus on accessibility, education, and technology. Projects should be deeply informed by the experience of people with disabilities – whether they are members of a hackathon team or consulted throughout the process.
One in four adults in the US – 61 million Americans – live with a disability (1). Disability segments include: vision, hearing, neurodiversity, learning, mobility, and mental health. Some are highly visible, while others are less obvious.
Projects that address accessibility in education use Azure services like AI to ensure the accessibility of learning materials, language development, and assistive technology options. We’ve compiled a list of potential areas that you might consider for this hack, but we encourage you to choose an area (or areas) that you’re passionate about making an impact. This may include but is not limited to:
- Improve literacy for people with learning disabilities
- Empower faculty living with disabilities
- Requesting and providing classroom accommodations
- Assistive technology for students with disabilities
- Remote and virtual learning environments for students with disabilities
- Making STEM and CS education accessible for students with disabilities
- Additional timely and relevant accessibility in education issues are welcome
We recognize that technology alone cannot solve all the challenges of accessibility, but our hope is that you’ll develop solutions that can help empower people living with disabilities and create impact. Once you decide where you want to focus, Microsoft Azure is here to enable you to invent with purpose. From databases, to serverless code, to responsible AI and everything in between, we will help you develop new skills and continue on your personal cloud development journey.
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Awards:-
$10,000 in prizes
First Place
• $5000 in USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at $150
Second Place
• $2500 in USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at $100
Third Place
• $1000 in USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at $100
Honourable mentions (3)
• $500 in USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Swag valued at $50
Completion of Azure AI Fundamentals Learning Path (Cloud Skills Challenge) (200)
All participants that complete the below Learning Path are eligible to receive swag valued up to $20.
Deadline:- 15-03-2021
