F1 Overnight Website Challenge

Sierra Bravo has challenged web professionals (nerds like us) from throughout our community to a friendly competition. We will all donate 24 hours to build complete websites for 11 Minnesota non-profit organizations — everyone wins, but we all lose sleep. One part nerd Olympics, one part community service project and one part race-against-the-clock — Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge presented by VISI will partner deserving Minnesota non-profits with teams of talented web developers for 24 hours of fun collaboration culminating in a fully operational website for each participating non-profit.

Visit the website at: http://www.f1webchallenge.com/

New Horizons is a supporting sponsor of this event. We will be providing training to the 11 non-profit organizations to help support their new website.

These non-profits are in:

Altered Esthetics
Doorstep Healthcare Services
Families Moving Forward
Hope Chest for Breast Cancer
Kairos Dance Theatre
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly
Metro Meals on Wheels
Rebuild Resources, Inc.-
Riverview Economic Development Association
Twin Cities RISE!-
Wingspan Life Resources

When and Where

The F1 Overnight Website Challenge begins the morning of March 1st, 2008, and ends mercifully the day after. The event will take place at the Continuing Education Conference Center, located on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota: 1890 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108

Event Timeline
7:30 a.m. — Registration, breakfast served, set up work stations
8:30 a.m. — Welcome remarks by Sierra Bravo and sponsors
9:00 a.m. — Teams meet together for the first time to discuss the mission and objectives of their non-profit, as well as desired functionality of the new website
10:00 a.m. — Begin programming and countdown begins
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Lunch served, Guitar Hero Challenge (no programming)
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. — Dinner served, raffle (no programming)
12:00-12:30 a.m. — Midnight snack (programming can continue)
6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. — Breakfast (programming can continue)
12:00 p.m. — Programming stops, judging begins
12:30 p.m. — Lunch served
1:00 p.m. — Presentations by group