Coming back for a spectacular 4th year, Melanie was once again the Program Director for the Warren Centre’s Humanitarian Innovation Awards program. This program includes two competitions… The Pitch (Mar – Apr) and The Hackathon (23-25 July).
The 2021 hackathon event was a successful Hybrid-event, digital first. Sydney University was ‘home-base’, with satellite sites set up in partnership with RMIT and University of Queensland. It was wonderful having some real face-to-face interaction taking place finally, after 2 years of needing to adapt to COVID restrictions.
This year saw the students trying to solve issues experienced by RedR during the 2022 volcanic eruption in the Pacific Islands.