{"id":3810,"date":"2016-10-17T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.mozilla.org\/blog\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2016-10-17T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:25:09","slug":"science-hack-day-pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/science-hack-day-pdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on my 1st hackathon: Science Hack Day PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Oregon’s first Science Hack Day took place on October 7-8. This was an event I’d been working on for over six months and through the planning process there were highs (amazing space! raspberry Pis!) and lows (financial sponsors want more than a month of notice). I learned a lot about event management and community organizing, and most importantly through planning this event, I met new inspiring people in the open source and open hardware world and got to know communities in my city that I never knew existed. The event itself was fun\/exhausting\/inspiring and I want to share it with the Science Lab community.<\/p>\n

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\"robinson_danielle\"I’m happy to talk nuts, bolts, and numbers with anyone looking to organize a similar event in their city. The organizing team included software developers, hardware hackers, librarians, and scientists (Max Ogden<\/a>, Robin Champieux<\/a>, Erin Foster<\/a>, Daniela Saderi<\/a>, Lilly Winfree<\/a>, Jess Hardwicke<\/a>, Jeena Lee<\/a>, and Alex Chally<\/a>). I joined to organizing team hoping to make the advantages of working openly and using open source tools tangible to wet lab biologists, and hoping to create a supportive and fun a space for biologists who wanted to learn to code or learn about hardware to meet people in the local community.<\/p>\n

Below is a blog post I wrote with my fellowship supervisor Robin Champieux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Science Hack Day<\/a> is an event where anyone who wants to make something with science comes together to see what they can prototype in 24-48 hours. From a data visualization to help a scientist explain their work, to a piece of hardware, software, or interactive technology – or something weird like a 3D printed LaCroix delivery drone –<\/a> Science Hack Day brings experts in technology together with researchers and science enthusiasts to facilitate innovation.<\/p>\n

On October 7 -8, scientists, software developers, designers, librarians, and engineers came together for the first ever Science Hack Day Portland<\/a> at the XOXO Outpost<\/a>. Empowered by an insatiable curiosity and the generous support of our sponsors, we learned, built, had fun, and walked away inspired!<\/p>\n

Science Hack Day Portland is a story of cross-disciplinary collaboration from beginning to end. The organizers of Open Insight PDX<\/a>, an OHSU Library and National Library of Medicine sponsored project, wanted to bring Jenny Molloy<\/a> to OHSU to facilitate a hack and create engagement with open tools and software for science. Around the same time open source community organizer Max Ogden<\/a>, with whom we had previously partnered on an Open Insight workshop, reached out about working together to organize a Science Hack Day in Portland. With our combined expertise, interests, and networks we built an event that not only got us and our attendees excited about the good open tools could do for science, but also catalyzed a community that we plan to nurture with more events and collaborations!<\/p>\n

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Yay, SCIENCE!! Ahoy, @science_hackPDX<\/a>! \ud83d\udc83 #pdxscience<\/a> (@ XOXO @OutpostPdx<\/a> in Portland, OR) https:\/\/t.co\/anNYDqwAy8<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/OzuELizY5J<\/a><\/p>\n

— flaki (@slsoftworks) October 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n