What is Nona Works?

A three-day biohackathon event to bring together industry and academic parties in the open-source synthetic biology community. “Nona Works” is focused on community building, idea execution, and education. Our theme for this hackathon is Security in Biotechnology ranging from the security that protects our healthcare data to biosecurity practices ensuring that pathogenic sequences become classified information.

If you have any interest in learning more, helping out, mentoring, or finding out more please fill out our survey and we’ll get back to you. Registration is coming soon!

Want to help fund this? Please reach out to jeray@nonasoftware.org

Preliminary Timeline

Day 1: May 19th

    • 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. – Registration: Coffee / snacks, an informal area set up to meet/greet each other
    • 5:30 – 6:15 – Introduction/Daily Kickoff: Greeting and Presentation by George Johnson
    • 6:15 – Begin 4 hour poster challenge
    • 6:15 – 7:00 – Ideation phase: Teams form and ideas are formed
    • 7:00 – 8:00 – Dinner
    • 8:00 – 9:00 – Technical Briefings – what software tools are being developed/used now in academia and industry
    • 9:30 – 10:15 – Closing Remarks – Insights about the first day & Poster Challenge Close for Judging and Review
    • 10:20 – 12:00 – Snacks, Presentations, and Games will be held throughout the night for entertainment

Day 2: May 20th

    • 12:00 – 8:00 a.m. – Snacks, Presentations, and Games will be held throughout the night for entertainment
    • 8:00 – 9:00 – Daily Kickoff: organizers lay out the agenda for the day. Teams explain their project ideas and share their plans
    • 10:00 – 11:00 – Nona Application Workshop
    • 11:30 – 4:00 – Intro to Development: High School focused workshop
    • 2:00 – 3:00 – Docker Workshop
    • 6:00 – 7:00 – Closing: At the end of the day teams share their progress and plan for the final day
    • 7:00 – 8:00  – Dinner Break and reconvene in the morning
    • 8:00 – 12:00 – Snacks, Presentations, and Games will be held throughout the night for entertainment

Day 3: May 21st

    • 12:00 – 8:00 a.m. –Snacks, Presentations, and Games will be held throughout the night for entertainment
    • 8:00 – 9:00 – Daily Kickoff: organizers lay out the agenda for the day. Teams explain their project ideas and share their plans
    • 10:00 – 11:00 – Open Source Workshop
    • 12:00 – Submission Due! Close-off time
    • 12:00 – 2:00 – Career Fair
    • 12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch break
    • 1:30 – 3:00 – Presentations
    • 3:30 – 4:00 – Results and Closing

Challenge Problems

Want to host your own challenge problem? Reach out to sponsor a prize and reward someone for hard work

  • Java/Python Security Challenge: Participants are challenged to upgrade an existing application’s Java version to Java 17 or Python version to 3.11, with a $500 bounty for the winning solution.
  • GUI Rookie Challenge: This challenge is open to undergraduate college teams who will present an innovative technology change they developed, with a $100 bounty for the winning team.
  • Product Design Poster Challenge: A $75 bounty is offered to non-technical individuals with a creative idea for a new security product that disrupts the industry. Participants will have 4 hours to work on their poster and awards will be presented at the end.
  • Friends Among Strangers Challenge: This challenge is designed to bring people together in a successful cohort, where individuals who meet face-to-face for the first time at Nona Works can earn a $50 bounty for successfully completing the challenge.

Sponsors

 

 

Bits in Bio

 

Lattice Automation