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Our Competitions, Your Students’ Growth
Our Competitions, Your Students’ Growth
Turnkey Events
Turnkey Events
End-to-end planning and delivery.
On-Site or Virtual
On-Site or Virtual
Flexible formats for schools and universities.
Customizable Challenges
Customizable Challenges
Tailored to age groups and curriculum goals.
Educator Support
Educator Support
Resources and training for seamless integration.
How We Work
How We Work
Design
Design
We have plenty of experience developing various custom events from simulated attacking bio-pharmaceutical labs, to hands-on robotics to navigate mazes autonomously.
Develop
Develop
We recognize that hackathons are at their core a morale game and approach design and development such that participants love playing and finish our games. The longer participants play the greater they learn. Our goal is for students to complete our hackathons and leave knowing how to approach industry problems.
Administer
Administer
Administering competitions is also its own challenge. Events commonly include hundreds of participants. We offer services to ensure the event runs smoothly from infrastructure administration, technical support for participants, and general staff augmentation.
Support
Support
We can support existing CTFs and Hackathons in various ways: offering technical guidance to participants at the event, augmenting existing staff for development or administration, and even augmentation of existing challenge sets or infrastructure.
Challenge Reviews,
Challenge Reviews,
Code Reviews,
Code Reviews,
Adjudication
Adjudication
A hackathon event is the sum of its challenges. Successful events result when challenges behave as expected. We offer services to analyze the success of a hackathon event itself and provide feedback on the challenges. We have extensive experience working with high school and college students and can provide feedback to customize challenge difficulty.
Each challenge is unique, especially challenges that require participants to submit custom solutions. We offer services to help review and adjudicate user solutions as they are submitted.
Events where participants build challenges directly necessitates the challenge be reviewed. We offer services to work with participants to ensure their challenges operate, are fair, and fit into the event format.
Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops
Workshops
Events are commonly 24-48 hour sprints. However, we see the opportunity to connect with participants beyond these sprints. We supplement events with in person and online workshops to elevate the competition, providing training material that teaches methodologies and skills to solve event and industry challenges.
We offer pre-event workshops to train participants ahead of time and expose them to the necessary skill sets.
We offer post-event workshops to solidify skills exercised during the competition and connect lessons learned to relevant industry problem sets.
Our workshops teach relevant skill sets such as software development, reverse engineering, and exploitation to ensure competitiveness when recruiting cyber security or programming talent.
Tutorials
Tutorials
We primarily test a participant’s skill set. No group’s skill sets are evenly distributed. We offer tutorials to democratize and elevate participant skills to make engaging in the event a more positive experience for everyone. Tutorials are 2 hour long “tech talk” style engagements to expose participants to CTF or industry relevant skills, thus preparing them for success in a competition and beyond.
We offer remote tutorials pre/post event to aid participants for any event. Tutorials for post events expose participants to unsolved challenges, review industry relevant challenges, as well as teach various methodologies to solve the challenges. No one wants to leave a hackathon with questions.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement
The hackathon community is thriving and growing. We offer services to engage with participants in online communities to answer questions, propose techniques, and assist with solutions. We extend this for CTF, hackathon, other events, and beyond to include assistance relevant to computing in general.
We offer:
Technical guidance
Career mentorship
Networking opportunities
Hackathon events challenge and teach, but community engagement solves industry problems.
Hackathon events challenge and teach, but community engagement solves industry problems.
Developmental Kits
Developmental Kits
Hackathons often utilize various interesting pieces of hardware. We offer services to assemble and deliver developmental toolkits aimed to provide project-level challenges over a longer duration, as well as to give teachable projects for teachers and professors looking to augment their curriculum.
We offer:
Course guidance workbook for leaders
Curriculum augmentation
Test and quiz questions
All materials, software, and coursework needed to fully build and test project
Our events challenge and teach, and now you can make them a part of semester long lesson planning.
Work with Polygon Labs
Work with Polygon Labs
Polygon Labs is excited for every opportunity to challenge and teach students.
We have experience in the all aspects of designing and conducting CTFs and hackathons, hosting workshops, mentoring, and engaging the community. We are excited to bring this passion to the STEM community.
No hackathon events are the same. Events are assumed to be 25-48 hours, but are flexible to meet the format and skill level of any competition.
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