Romanian Codecool open entries for CoolHack2, hackathon for junior programmers

#CoolHack2 is scheduled to take place on 15-16 april 2022, as part of CodeCool’s mission to solve the need to develop IT competencies and to contribute to creating the next generation of digital talents.

Initially dedicated to students and graduates from Codecool, this year’s hackathon will be open also to junior programmers with top 1 year of work experience, graduates of university programs, self educated programmers or people that graduated other IT schools. The teams will include 2-3 members that can enter the competition filling in a form until April 2nd. The max number of teams this year is 20, 10 reserved for CodeCool and 10 open to other participants.

At #CoolHack2, participants will work in team in order to develop a digital solution that can be applied in a certain area of interest, that will be unveiled the morning of the event. The finished projects could be donated to NGOs from Romania.

The apps developed during the hackathon will be evaluated based on 3 criteria: tech, creative and business. The jury will consist of 5 members.

Codecool is one of the biggest programming schools in CEE. Growing fast, the school is already present in Austria, Polonia, Romania and Hungary and its over 2000 graduates already got jobs at the over 300 corporate partners of the school in the entire Europe. The main educational program of CodeCool is the Full-Stack Developer one.