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World Coding Relay 2019Event Sponsors & Supporters
GirlsComputingLeague is actively seeking sponsors from around the globe to make this event possible. Below are just a few of the sponsors who have already committed to helping with this massive event. If you or your organization is interested in making this event one of the farthest-reaching coding challenges for students around the globe, please send us an email using the button below.
Sponsors
API Supporters
About The Event
When
October 5 & 6, 2019 and October 12 & 13, 2019: Exact Time TBD, All Time Zones and Countries Welcome!
Where
Exact Locations Based on Student Applications
COST FOR ENTRY
Absolutely Free (Travel costs not included)
DURATION
24 hours
Who’s Organizing This?
GirlsComputingLeague is partnering with the Veteran Administration Health Tech Sprint and the Presidential Innovation Fellows to host this relay.
The Goal
Participants are tasked with developing creative solutions to help increase patient awareness of clinical trials. Increasing patient awareness of clinical trials is believed to be a factor in reducing time for participant recruitment, a very large issue in clinical trials. Participants will have access to APIs containing millions of clinical trials and a starting interface with basic patient matching utility. In order to meet this goal, we seek to build AI algorithms to best do this task as well as build tools for improving patient care, aid recruitment, and reduce drug development costs.
The Desired Solution
We are creating a user tool that pulls their data from sources such as VA Health API and CMS Blue Button and provides matching for potential trials at the NCI cancer trials database that they may be eligible for. Eligibility criteria includes diagnostic conditions and demographic information. This initial tool may be expanded based on other data sources of patient information, clinical trials, and eligibility criteria. The final application will be in line with the government’s Health Tech Sprint’s goal to improve care and experience for patients.
“A Global Phenomenon”
The World Coding Relay is a unique twist on a traditional 24-hour coding challenges and competitions. Instead of limiting it to one specific area, our goal is to expand and incorporate participants of different backgrounds and cultures from around the world to participate in global collaboration. The relay will be initiated in a single time zone and participants will be allotted a certain time period (approximately 4-6 hours) to plan, design, and code their ideas. Their progress is passed onto the next time zone, and the process is repeated around the entire globe. Participants in each timezone build upon the work done by participants in the previous timezone, and the final product will incorporate various ideas from unique perspectives and world-views.
Frequently Asked Questions
How exactly will the participants be able to access the previous code and files? - Will they need to create some sort of account to edit the code?
Are there any set features that the participants will need to code for, or can they add whatever features they want?
How long will each time zone have the code available to them for?
How many people/teams from each time zone can participate in the event?
Is the coding relay open to anyone or is it only aimed towards a specific age group?
Will the project will circulate around the different time zones or will it go to each time zone only once?
How do I contribute in the relay?
- Idea contribution: Contribute an idea how we can innovatively improve the current Clinical Trial system.
- Application development for Clinical Trial system: Code features and help develop the Clinical Trial system
- Testing the current application: Navigate and test the current Clinical trial system
Initial Registration Open
Whether you are working professional in IT or student in middle or high school, We are so glad you interested in being apart of this global coding relay. We’d be honored and glad to have you as apart of the competition! Presently we are working to organize some logistical pieces of the event, but we’d love to hear if you are interested or would like to be apart of this event before we open registration. Please use the form below to indicate your interest!
About
GirlsComputingLeague a nonprofit who aims to empower underrepresented groups in the technology workplace by fostering the interests of young women in computer science, data science, and technology. We specialize in teaching computer science, data science and information technology concepts to students in Northern Virginia and the Washington Metropolitan area.
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