Environmental Hackfest
Get your hands dirty solving environmental problems!
Newell Simon Hall 3002, 10-1 on Fridays
Textbook: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (available in cmu bookstore)
Other Readings: Available on the class "Lectures" page
We’re looking for people from across campus to hack code, hardware, ideas, and people. In this fast-paced course, students of all levels from disciplines ranging from Art to Computer Science to Environmental Engineering will work together to foster sustainable behavior using creative insight and technical prowess.
What you will learn:
This 6 credit first-half mini will is a 3-hour lab course taught Fridays from 10am-1pm in 3002 NSH.
The class will include tutorials on relevant topics ranging from how to create web mashups to how to sense environmental data to art, design, and behavioral approaches to environmental behavior change. Groups of students will work on a mini-long project.
Attendance is mandatory, and the class grade will be based on a combination of class participation (20%), individual work (30%) and the final group project (50%).
All backgrounds and experience levels are welcome.
Contact Jennifer Mankoff (jmankoff@cs.cmu.edu) with questions