{"id":718,"date":"2015-02-07T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=718"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:50:54","slug":"hackathon","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that we are partnering with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsupunited.org\/#tech-impact-section\">Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship Workshop<\/a>, a Hands Up United initiative,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for our Hackathon during WordCamp St. Louis&#8217;\u00a0<a title=\"Community Day\" href=\"https:\/\/2015.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/community-day\/\">Community Day<\/a>\u00a0on March 15th.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1080\" class=\"wp-image-1080 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5242\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_5242.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learning HTML, CSS, and WordPress at T-REX<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 6-week workshop (named for North St. Louis County\u00a0native and Silicon Valley entrepreneur\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackentrepreneurprofile.com\/profile-full\/article\/roy-l-clay-sr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Clay<\/a>) consists of teaching Ferguson\/St. Louis youth\u00a0HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UX, entrepreneurship, and small business management\u00a0with the goal of participants learning the complete set of web development skills needed to help build sites for\u00a0others in their community. Funds raised using the group&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/hv6utk\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe campaign<\/a>\u00a0provide\u00a0participants that complete the program with\u00a0a $500 stipend and a personal laptop to continue using the skills they learned.<\/p>\n<p>To develop these skills, participants have been meeting for 12 hours per week since early February doing everything from creating\u00a0static HTML pages to creating wireframes using\u00a0client requirements to customizing WordPress themes.<\/p>\n<p>All of their hard work will culminate on March 15th when we\u00a0have a full day scheduled for working\u00a0with the participants, local\u00a0small businesses, and community organizations they&#8217;ve been working with to finish and\u00a0launch\u00a0their WordPress sites. We&#8217;re hoping you&#8217;ll join us to help put some of the finishing touches on their sites as well as showing these\u00a0young, new WordPressers\u00a0that they are part of a\u00a0huge community of volunteers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that we are partnering with the\u00a0Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship Workshop, a Hands Up United initiative,\u00a0for our Hackathon during WordCamp St. Louis&#8217;\u00a0Community Day\u00a0on March 15th. The 6-week workshop (named for North St. Louis County\u00a0native &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/hackathon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Hackathon<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8739145,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1426428000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[454119],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-718","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-developer-1"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5laqk-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"March 15, 2015","time":"9:00 am"},"session_speakers":[],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8739145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/718\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}