HackManchester Junior 2019

We are once again proud sponsors of HackManchester Junior!

 

 Our Challenge:

At Thales we work hard to try and encourage people to take up coding; we always needs more engineers and that’s only going to increase in the future!

Your challenge is to produce something that will help encourage people at secondary school to take up technology and engineering careers!

We want whatever you create to be:

•  Colourful and Engaging – remember your audience!
• Include information about what’s good about computer science/programming  – why should people want to become software engineers?
• Can you include what Thales do? (we will look for the most imaginative!)

Prizes!

The winning team will each receive a sphero mini robot so they can improve their tech skills at home! (https://www.sphero.com/sphero-mini) 

Hackathon Jan 2019

The Challenge

At Thales, we ensure that 90% of the world’s payments get through safely and smoothly using our specialised cryptography algorithms.

These all happen in the background so that the customer barely notices.

But what if we didn’t want this to be easy for the customer? Our challenge is to come up with the most frustrating security system for any app of your choice!

Prizes
Each team member in the winning team will receive:

• A £30 amazon voucher 
• The Codenames game

Meet the Judge

Our judge, Megan, will be looking for:

• Teamwork!
•  An innovative and fun idea
•  Skills developed during the two days 

 

HACK MANCHESTER 2018 Challenge

Thales

Thales is a multi-national engineering company with five main business areas: Defence, Aerospace, Ground Transportation, Space and Security. At Thales we are constantly trying to master the undersea environment, which includes identifying mines in the world’s oceans.
To achieve this we produce minehunting sonar, autonomous minehunting vessels and command systems. These can identify mines, which the Navy can then detonate in a controlled way making shipping lanes and harbours safer.
These products are used by Navies all over the world.

The Challenge

Phone and web applications are common place in our daily lives, but not yet used by military personnel when doing missions. Your challenge is to come up with a prototype app that will alert an operator to a nearby threat, for example a mine or another submarine (this could be simulated by a sensor or some other input).
Extended: What other features could this app have to help navy personnel while working? Let your imagination go wild!
The judge will be looking for:

• Teamwork
• Innovation
• the finished product
• Your progression of skills over the two days

The Prizes!

4 x Wireless Bluetooth Speakers!

The Judge

I am Marianne Giles and will be judging the Thales Challenge at the event. I am a Software Engineer working on Autonomous Minehunters, after getting a ‘BEng Computer Science with Industrial Placement’ from the University of York. I have worked in a wide range of roles in the company from coding to helping install systems on the ships, mainly focusing on delivering sensors for minehunters.
As a judge I will be looking for teams who are thinking outside of the box, having fun and showing me how you reached a solution through teamwork!

The Train Experience Hack Challenge

The Train Experience                                                                

Junior Hack Manchester

Junior Hack Manchester

The Challenge

Our challenge for you is to produce a project that mimics the functionality of a minehunter.

Think about one or more of the following areas:

1.                 Classifying an image or sound

This could be an app which can recognize a certain shape in an image, or a certain sound and respond to it

2.                 The security of actually logging in to the mine hunting system

For example eye recognition or finger print technology could be used or a new way of storing passwords.

3.                 Ways to set a course for an autonomous vehicle

This could be a website, or application allowing a user to set an item going from A to B. Could we use touchscreens, voice commands?

4.                 Mimics the underwater environment

This could be a game or Minecraft

At Thales

At Thales we are constantly trying to master the undersea environment, which includes identifying mines in the world’s oceans.

To achieve this we produce minehunting sonar, autonomous minehunting vessels and command systems. These can identify mines, which the Navy can then detonate in a controlled way making shipping lanes and harbours safer.

These products are used by Navies all over the world.

Prizes

The winning team will receive:

·         2 Build-Your-Own robotic arm kits

·         2 RC Quadcopters with cameras

·         4 boxes of Thales goodies!

Judge

I am Marianne Giles and will be judging the Thales Challenge at the event. I am a second year graduate at Thales working as a Software Engineer, after getting a ‘BEng Computer Science with Industrial Placement’ from the University of York. I have worked in a wide range of roles in the company from coding to helping install systems on the ships, mainly focusing on delivering sensors for minehunters.

As a judge I will be looking for teams who are thinking outside of the box, having fun and showing me how you reached a solution through teamwork!