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Updated Grand Finalists & Other Updates!

Hello Climate Change-Makers,

We hope everyone's having an awesome week so far! Here is the updated Grand Finalists list (re-sent out as one of the links was updated)

And indeed, on our end, we're excited to to announce that our GRAND FINALS being held on SATURDAY, MAY 26th, 2024 @ 11 AM EST... And here, the format was chosen after consulting with participants, featuring a final with ~12 teams, who will be sharing their revised 5-min videos (OR a 5-min live pitch), while having 3 min of questions for our judges. It should be a blast :)

And ALL of you are invited, link here: Climate Change-Makers Challenge 2024!!

Now, the above will not be news to most, as we've been keeping our Slack channel (link here) very much up-to-date with the latest... For those who've missed it, here's some key notes:

  • THANK YOU to All Who Applied: It really was so difficult for judges to narrow down our lists & are truly inspired by everyone who applied, whether you made the finals or not. Indeed, our experience with these things is that one's placement in a hackathon rarely coincides with where a project can go IRL, hence encourage everyone to keep pursuing their projects (or new ones using your learnings), with a genuine feeling that ALL of you are destined to make impact in your own unique ways!
  • Expect Feedback in Coming Weeks: Finalist teams will be sent this today/tomorrow (ON SLACK) & are encouraged to use their feedback as they develop pitches for the grand finals and/ or iterate on their videos. For our other teams, if you would like feedback please let us know in your team channel in Slack as it is available on request. 
  • Public Choice Awards: All eligible teams can also put their hats in for our public choice awards. Most teams already opted in when submitting their projects or when doing the bonus points form sent out last week. We encourage all to share their work with the world, with the key thing here being that those opted in will have their project vids shared on our SM & have the public select their favourites in a hidden vote (see here for the link to our SM!)
  • Check Your Slack: FInally, we've sent notes by now to ALL teams over Slack around various wrap-up stuff (e.g. asking them to confirm whether or not they want to participate in the public choice awards) & would ask folks to please check your Slack especially if you are a finalist team!

And on this note.... Our FINALIST TEAMS are... DRUMROOLLLL & in no particular order... Best Life, EcoBlings, EcoLearn, EcoPlate, Ecora, EcoTox, HimRelief, Reciept Vault, Smart Bins, Solar Vision and SucroSoil, Sukshm!!  . Check out their submissions + our other very cool ones on our now-published project gallery @ climatechangemakers2024.devpost.com/project-gallery.

In any case folks, we are SUPER-pumped for our Grand Finals on May 26th & encourage all of you to sign up + participate in some way... For us organizers, this hackathon has been a blast & thank you all for taking part in different ways. We truly are so proud of each and every one of you for all of the passion and innovation you folks showed. 

Many thanks & kind regards,

The CCM Organizing Team

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.