https://github.com/shiftkey-labs/breaking-barriers-hack-2025
Final projects from the ShiftKey x WiTS Hackathon: Breaking Barriers (2025)
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Final projects from the ShiftKey x WiTS Hackathon: Breaking Barriers (2025)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/shiftkey-labs/breaking-barriers-hack-2025
- Owner: shiftkey-labs
- Created: 2025-06-29T14:05:26.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-06-29T19:00:47.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-22T11:30:59.754Z (9 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 2.06 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# ShiftKey x WiTS Hackathon: Breaking Barriers (2025)
Welcome to the official repository for Dalhousies first ever Women and Nonbinary persons Hackathon! **ShiftKey x WiTS: Breaking Barriers**, hosted June 28–29, 2025 by ShiftKey Labs and the Women in Tech Society (WiTS) at Dalhousie University.
## 🚀 Theme: Leveling the Playing Field
This hackathon challenges participants to develop innovative, tech-based solutions that address **systemic and social barriers** faced by women and non-binary individuals in tech and beyond.
Projects span themes such as representation, bias, health & safety, imposter syndrome, and more — aiming to make the world of technology more inclusive, equitable, and accessible for all.
## 📂 How This Repo Works
Each team has their own folder inside this repository containing:
- Source code
- Demo materials or assets
- `README.md` with project overview, team info, and setup instructions
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## 🧠 Goals of This Hackathon
- Create a **safe space** for innovation without stigma or bias
- Center ideas and solutions from women and underrepresented voices
- Give students the opportunity to learn, build, and be **heard and seen** as innovators
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## 🙌 Thanks & Acknowledgments
Special thanks to:
- Everyone at **WiTS** and **Shiftkey** who made this possible
- All our **mentors**, **judges**, and **guest speakers**
- Our incredible participants for their creativity, courage, and collaboration
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### 📣 Want to Share or Build on These Projects?
All projects in this repository are public so that others can **learn from, build on, or be inspired** by these ideas. Please reach out to individual teams (listed in their folders) for collaboration or credit when using their work.
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Let’s break barriers — together.
💜
— Maggie