Come improve small scale fish farming
Hundred of thousands of small scale farmers grow shrimp and fish globally. It is important to reach out to these farmers to help them understand best managment practices. We are looking for designers, developers and project managers to help us create a platform to deliver best management practices to these small scale farmers. In turn, we also need to retrieve data to assure these farmers do not have large environmental impacts. This data collection can form the basis for aquaculture improvement across the globe.
Honored Guest
Andrew O'Brien
Andrew O’Brien is the Special Representative for Global Partnerships in the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP). Previously, Special Representative O’Brien had served as Secretary Kerry’s Massachusetts State Director in the Senate since 2007, reprising a role he had served in from 2003 to 2005. In this position, O’Brien played a lead role in all major policy and legislative deliberations affecting Massachusetts in the United States Congress, and is particularly proud of his work with small businesses, organized labor, the LGBT community, youth, veterans groups and new immigrants on behalf of then-Senator Kerry. In the past several years, he has lectured on politics and government at the city, state and national levels. In 2007, O’Brien was named one of the city’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Boston Jaycees and in 2009 he was named one of Massachusetts' "Top Ten Political Operatives" by Campaigns and Elections Magazine.
Prizes
A select winner will be awarded $5000 in cash by Cast Software
The Office of Global Partnerships & tone are offering a trip to the Philippines.
Virtual accelerator for 3 months by VentureHive to turn your project into a sustainable business!
A one-year license of Mathematica Student Edition and a one-year free subscription to WolframAlpha Pro
Schedule
Friday
6:00PM
Arrive and introductions
Dinner will be served
7:00PM
Begin project description
R Hannigan -U MAss Boston - welcome
view the Kerry video
Mr Andrew O'Brien - State Department– our oceans / sustainable fisheries
M Tlusty – NEAq - project framework
M Thompson - NEAq - begin shrimp farming project description
8:30pm
Develop workstreams and teams
Saturday
8:00AM
Breakfast
12:00PM
Lunch
4:00PM
Develop Project Presentations
5:00PM
Dinner and project presentations
6:00PM
Awards
7:00PM
Finish
10:00pm
Goodbye! UMB and the facilities will close
Sunday
1:00PM
Deadline to submit code for best code prize ($5,000)
Tuesday
Our Oceans Conference in Washington DC: www.state.gov/ourocean.
Tuesday
Winner presents project for grand prize (Trip to Philippines)
Any and all works created during the Fishackathon are developed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
