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Posted on Friday, October 7th, 2011 by bridget
With our life sciences weekend just around the corner (14 – 16 October!), the Siyavula team is full of excitement and anticipation for what the weekend will hold! Much planning and activity is happening in our office, as we make final preparations for the weekend to ensure its success!
We have Tommy Botha who is the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 by carine
This past weekend saw Siyavula’s most effective hackathon yet! We were recently approached by the South African Institute of Civil Engineering’s (SAICE) UCT chapter to partner with them in one of their yearly outreach initiatives. It was a logical fit for them as they could use the knowledge and skills they have acquired at UCT [...]
Posted on Monday, July 11th, 2011 by bridget
Two months ago we held our first ever Hackathon at Stellenbosch University where, with the help of first language Afrikaans volunteers we started the process of translating FHSST into Afrikaans. We made excellent progress on our Grade 10 maths textbook, which we have since submitted for review for the government approved textbook list! Our [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 by bridget
Tuesday 19 April was our ninth Hackathon of the year, and our final one for a little while as we are putting our Hackathons on hold temporarily due to our Siyavula work commitments. We had a strong turnout of 29 volunteers, and as always it was great to see the familiar faces of everyone as [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 by bridget
Our turnout at last night’s Hackathon was smaller than usual, but nevertheless we had 21 enthusiastic volunteers! Mark went from table to table and gave everyone a status update on the project and the progress being made.
To expand on this, we are very excited to announce that the new Grade 10 versions of FHSST with [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 by bridget
The second term for UCT students has begun, and this being their first week of term was no deterrent for Hackathon attendance. We had 23 sign ups on Eventbrite, but we have learned that this is no indication of what the turnout will be!
At around 18h30 we were sitting on 14 volunteers, which was of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 by bridget
UCT students are currently on holiday, so it was great watching our Eventbrite attendance sign up page increase in numbers in the lead up to last night’s Hackathon, to the point where we were expecting 23 people. But even more exciting than this, was having eight new sign ups last night (some signed up but [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 by bridget
This is the last week of term for UCT students (can you believe it!), but despite this we had 21 signups on Eventbrite, and ended up with 26 volunteers at our Hackathon last night! Some volunteers came along after their tests, which is serious dedication if you ask me. We did things a bit differently [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 by bridget
We have held four Hackathons this year so far, and it is hard to believe that the university term ends next week already. As per our usual Tuesday routine, we stocked up on snacks and cooldrinks before heading over to UCT, and then prepared the venue (moved tables around, stuck up posters, set out the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 by bridget
Last night’s Hackathon was our best one yet! We implemented a new, more streamlined process, which meant the assignment allocation ran smoothly and easily, and when volunteers arrived they were able to take a seat at a table, read through the instructions that we printed out and begin. We had 18 people sign up on [...]