The world's first online hackathon to help fix the climate
- 🗓 2nd-30th August
- 🏆 Prize value of $10k+
- 🌎 Open to everyone
- 2nd-30th August, Prize value of $10k+, Open to everyone
What is a climate fixathon?
It’s a 4-week online hackathon for individuals or teams to use their tech skills to build and launch projects intended to help fix the climate.
What should
I make?
Any website, app or service that aims to help restore a safe climate for our planet.
At the end of the event a winner and runner up will be selected for each of our Fixathon awards. 👉
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Awareness
Most likely to raise awareness of climate breakdown.
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Action
Most likely to help people take action against climate breakdown.
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Facilitation
Most likely to make climate breakdown related tech projects easier to create in the future.
What can I win?
If your project is selected as the winner of our Action, Awareness or Facilitation award you’ll receive:
Winners
Winners
$1,500
Cash for your team to spend- + Free Sketch licenses
- + Free Egghead.io licenses
- + Free Kirby licenses
- + Free Drawkit illustrations
- + 100 trees planted by Offset Earth
- + 3,000 boost currency from Gizer
Runner ups
Runner ups
$300
Cash for your team to spend- + 25 trees planted by Offset Earth
- + 300 boost currency from Gizer
The ZEIT Award
$300
Judges
Meet our panel of tech experts who will be responsible for selected the Fixathon winners.
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Simon Collison
Designer, writer, occasional speaker. Director of New Adventures @naconf.
@colly
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Founder Ness Labs, running MakerMag, ex Google and creator of #diversity30.
@anthilemoon
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Justin Jackson
Working with SaaS companies since 2008. Building Transistor.fm.
@mijustin
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Veni Kunche
Founder or Diversify Tech and Code With Veni. Sr. Software Engineer at USGS.
@venikunche
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Cennydd Bowles
Design, ethics, futures · Author of Future Ethics.
@cennydd
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Charli Prangley
Designer at ConvertKit. Co-host of the Design Life Podcast.
@charliprangley
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James Singleton
James is the author of ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance and he blogs at unop.uk.
@shutdownscanner
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Michelle Thorne
Michelle leads Mozilla’s Open Internet of Things Studio.
@thornet
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Fajar Siddiq
Serial Entrepreneur + Indie-Maker + Producer + Professional Yo-Yo Player.
@fajarsiddiqfs
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Charlie Gerard
Front-end dev at Atlassian. Google Dev Expert in Web Tech and Mozilla Tech Speaker.
@devdevcharlie
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Chris Adams
Co-organiser Climate Action Tech, director of the Green Web Foundation.
@mrchrisadams
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Cat Friend
1password growth manager and ocean advocate.
@cat__friend
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Paras Chopra
Founder & Chairman of VWO, market-leading A/B testing and conversion optimization platform.
@paraschopra
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Steph Smith
Maker of eunoia.world, femake.tech, nomadhubb.com, begreat.me
@stephsmithio
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Christopher Skillicorn
Designer at ZEIT. Started Wulkano, a digital collective of sorts, and helped create Kap.
@skllcrn
Sponsors 🙌
Our prizes would not be possible without the support of these awesome companies and makers.
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The best way to keep you and your family, team, and business safe online. Go ahead. Forget your passwords.
1password.com -
Over one million designers use Sketch to transform their ideas into incredible products, every day.
sketch.com -
High quality, concise web development screencasts. Coding with expert open-source contributors.
egghead.io -
VWO is an all-in-one conversion optimisation platform to help marketers & product managers increase conversions & online sales.
vwo.com
Want to Take part?
Anyone from around the world can join the Climate Fixathon as an individual or as part of a team.
How to register your entry
The Climate Fixathon will be hosted on Makerlog - a platform for makers to develop and launch in the open.
To take part you must create a user account on Makerlog and register to attend the Climate Fixathon.
Join with Makerlog:
Looking for team members?
Ask in the Impact Makers #meet-makers Slack channel or tweet with the hashtag #fixathonteamup.
Don't know what you're going to work on yet?
No problem! Please still register for the event. You can decide on your project later. We’ve created a Fixathon Project Inspiration page to help guide and inspire you. Hopefully, something you find will spark an idea.
To learn more read our FAQs.