Hello, thank you for choosing to learn more about the HexLabs committees and subteams! Applications are due on ⌛ November 9th, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST and can be found at apply.hexlabs.org We're excited to see all the stellar ideas you'll bring to the HexLabs Team and hope you'll consider joining! More information can also be found on our website: hexlabs.org
The Design Team ideates and designs all of HexLabs’s visual and product experiences. We are a multidisciplinary team made of one-of-kind designers with passions for graphic design, product design, motion design, UX research, and more! Together, we are responsible for theming the event, curating swag like stickers and t-shirts, designing graphics for marketing posts, and wireframing/prototyping all HexLabs tech products and websites. We look for outside-of-the-box thinkers who are passionate about their craft, eager to collaborate, and ready to design the never-before-seen.
The Tech Team creates all the tech that powers our events. We build all our tools in-house that keep our events running smoothly, keep participants engaged, and make people rethink what the hackathon experience is like. We work on a variety of projects from our proprietary judging platform, check-in/registration, a web app for virtual team formation, and so much more. We’ve also created fun hardware for our in-person events like a style-transfer photo booth and a vintage arcade game. We look for people who are creative, work hard, and take initiative to make our biggest ideas a reality.
GitHub: https://www.github.com/HackGT
On the Marketing Team, we value engaging and interacting with various communities in relation to our organization. From event partners to volunteers to alumni to participants, we are tasked with general organizational communication and event recruiting. Our mission is to build and cultivate the HexLabs brand and spread the word about our organization’s initiatives and accomplishments. Oftentimes, you’ll be thinking about social media campaigns, and how to keep students in touch with us on our platforms through raffles and promotional videos. We strive to stay connected with the community and other organizations on campus. On this team, we value creativity, ambition, writing skills and communication, and collaboration skills!
The Finance Team has two major responsibilities: acquiring sponsorship and budget management. We are in charge of maintaining external relations with sponsors and allowing the teams to function to the best of their ability with proper financial judgment by maintaining the flow of resources in and out of the organization. This can include work involving budgeting, taxes, cold outreach via email/LinkedIn, etc. to fund and support HexLab's various initiatives. We are an ambitious and hardworking team that values communication, organization, flexibility, calmness, and collaboration skills!
On the Operations Team, we do all of the little things needed to bring the event together—and believe us, there are a LOT of little things. From ordering food and swag to coordinating parking and transportation, to organizing the layout of our events, to recruiting judges and mentors, to creating a curriculum—we do it all! There's a huge variety of different tasks that we handle, so there's never a boring day for us. We also work with other subteams to bring everything together into one awesome event, so there's lots of collaboration too! We are the catch-all team, ready to tackle whatever is thrown at us.
HexLabs’ Catalyst initiative has recently transformed into a structured subteam focused on giving more to the high school community! Our foundational goal for the Catalyst initiative is to present opportunities for underserved high school students in technical exploration and learning. These opportunities include workshops, career panels, and mentorship. Over the past five years, we have pursued this goal through our annual learn-a-thon for schools in the metro ATL. We have revamped to reach more students and have started a cohort program that extends the vision of our one-day learn-a-thon event with activities like field trips, panels, and mentoring to provide more insight into professional and academic trajectories. Our subteam splits the different responsibilities of each team mentioned above but on a smaller scale, and we are curious about researching and developing creative ideas and implementing the vision to improve accessibility to STEM and Computer Science!
As a HexLabs member, you can join and create other initiatives within the organization! Here are a few of them:
Hacking is a wonderful new phenomenon that has been taking the world by storm over the past couple of years, but often it is clouded in mystery. How can I become a hacker, where can I learn, what even does it mean to be a hacker? HexLabs has decided to start demystifying this by launching a podcast and blog where we explore the stories and journeys of hackers and hackathon organizers in our community. If you are interested in creating brand new media and hosting genuine, enriching conversations you can help join this initiative. Learn skills such as blog posting, sound production, and audio editing while meeting interesting people along the way.