Colorado Sustainability Challenge

build skills, gain experience, win prizes via a unique university hackathon for a good cause

TL;DR if you have never "hacked" and aren't a "coder"... this event is for you!

  • Interested in gaining real-world experience building sustainable solutions from an environmental and financial perspective? Do you like competition?
  • If so, this Hackathon is for you! Teams of students will compete for cash prizes, legit industry credentials, and tons of merch (oh, and lots of free food).
  • All aspiring Citizen Developers welcome (meaning, no coding experience required). Register using your valid University of Colorado student account.

“clicks, not code”

Who

  • University Students

    Any actively enrolled college or university student in Colorado can register for the Colorado Sustainability Challenge (CSC) Hackathon

  • New Venture Challenge

    We are working closely with the team behind the renowned NVC, which runs a full academic year entrepreneurial competition

  • Industry Partners

    Leaders from the technology industry and startup ecosystem will be involved throughout the event, plus a Keynote on design thinking

  • Why

  • Gain Experience

    Work on actual business problems, and deploy solutions that will be put to use in the real world

  • Build Skills

    Work with your team and with innovators from campus and industry to learn how to rapidly deliver value

  • Win Prizes

    Multiple cash prizes, as well as merch and street cred

  • What

  • Low-Code

    Salesforce, Skuid, Slack... Mogli for messaging... Asana to Zapier... you name it, you can use it at the Hackathon

  • No Cost

    Sign up for a free Developer account for each of the platforms, getting started quickly and scaling up easily

  • Award Decisions

    Teams will be judged on multiple criteria reflecting creativity, execution, design thinking, feasibility, and scalability... all based on the low-code application they developed during the hackathon. Judging will be conducted by a panel of industry and academic leaders, using an innovative new Decision Science platform called Volley built with low-code technology!

    Low-Code Platforms

    use any or all of these leading tools

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    History

    The Low-Code Hackathon was developed & curated by
    Matthew John Brady, Entrepreneur & Educator
    working in close coordination with the
    University of Colorado – Leeds School of Business
    and the Salesforce CU Student Group. The scope and scale of the Hackathon program has grown significantly since the prior event in 2024-10.

    BioOx

    First Place award winner

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    Abundant Ground

    Project Bounty + Finalist award winner

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    Amply

    Finalist award winner

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