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attended to; (8) the quality of food; (9) the infrastructure (space, rooms, labs); (10)
the technical resources; (11) the organization team; (12) the teachers’ mentoring and;
(13) the overall event.
4 Results and Discussion
The hackathon took place from 6:15 pm October 16 to 9 pm October 18 at the
Polytechnic School/PUCPR building, as one of the activities of the Academic Week.
As per Table 3, 64 undergraduate students (27 female, 37 male ageing from 18 to
28 years), from the first to the 12° period of 10 courses from PUCPR have registered,
but seven did not participate in the hackathon. Therefore, 57 students organized
themselves into 11 teams, which selected nine residuals from a list of 31. Table 4
displays the teams’ composition, selected residuals, an abstract of each project and
their awards.
The questionnaire was answered by 20 (35%) out of the 57 participants: 14 female,
six male, 12 from the 10° period, four from the 2° and the others from the 4°, 5°,
7° and 8° periods. Reasons for attending the hackathon varied from personal enrichment (curriculum, experience, knowledge, opportunity for research and innovation,
personal growth), the fun of a hackathon (competition, challenges, madness), and the
chance to deal with real important problems (sustainability, the challenge of looking
for solutions for a real problem, improve the world with innovation). They expected
to learn, acquire experience, a moment for immersing in a project they could identify
with, networking, teamwork and cooperation, dynamic activities and project development. Some respondents expected something more than they got in the hackathon,
something “bigger”, with more interesting challenges and interaction, solutions for
information technology, and that the teams had more support and recognition. Other
Table 3 Demographics of
the participants of the
hackathon
Course
Male
Female
Total
Industrial engineering
15
16
31
Civil engineering
7
6
13
Mechanical engineering
6
1
7
Software engineering
4
4
Mechatronics
2
1
3
Design
1
1
2
Biomedical engineering
1
1
Computational engineering
1
1
Computational sciences
1
1
Pharmacy
1
1
Total
37
27
64
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attended to; (8) the quality of food; (9) the infrastructure (space, rooms, labs); (10)
the technical resources; (11) the organization team; (12) the teachers’ mentoring and;
(13) the overall event.
4 Results and Discussion
The hackathon took place from 6:15 pm October 16 to 9 pm October 18 at the
Polytechnic School/PUCPR building, as one of the activities of the Academic Week.
As per Table 3, 64 undergraduate students (27 female, 37 male ageing from 18 to
28 years), from the first to the 12° period of 10 courses from PUCPR have registered,
but seven did not participate in the hackathon. Therefore, 57 students organized
themselves into 11 teams, which selected nine residuals from a list of 31. Table 4
displays the teams’ composition, selected residuals, an abstract of each project and
their awards.
The questionnaire was answered by 20 (35%) out of the 57 participants: 14 female,
six male, 12 from the 10° period, four from the 2° and the others from the 4°, 5°,
7° and 8° periods. Reasons for attending the hackathon varied from personal enrichment (curriculum, experience, knowledge, opportunity for research and innovation,
personal growth), the fun of a hackathon (competition, challenges, madness), and the
chance to deal with real important problems (sustainability, the challenge of looking
for solutions for a real problem, improve the world with innovation). They expected
to learn, acquire experience, a moment for immersing in a project they could identify
with, networking, teamwork and cooperation, dynamic activities and project development. Some respondents expected something more than they got in the hackathon,
something “bigger”, with more interesting challenges and interaction, solutions for
information technology, and that the teams had more support and recognition. Other
Table 3 Demographics of
the participants of the
hackathon
Course
Male
Female
Total
Industrial engineering
15
16
31
Civil engineering
7
6
13
Mechanical engineering
6
1
7
Software engineering
4
4
Mechatronics
2
1
3
Design
1
1
2
Biomedical engineering
1
1
Computational engineering
1
1
Computational sciences
1
1
Pharmacy
1
1
Total
37
27
64