To: Dr. Erika Paterson
From: Jason Smith
Date: Nov 19, 2019
Subject: Progress on ENGL 301 Formal Report
I am writing to inform you on the progress I’ve made on my formal report about increasing hackathon submissions for nwHacks 2020. This progress report outlines the audience, the purpose of the report, research plan, and a writing schedule for the report. Attached is also a document with survey questions I intend on asking audience members.
Audience
- Anita Tse, Co-president of nwHacks for the current academic year
- Max Leung, Ex-President of nwHacks for the 2016-2018 academic years
- Patrick Lin, Ex-Treasurer of nwHacks for the 2016-2018 academic years
- Ex nwHacks attendees @UBC
Purpose of Report
- To discover additional avenues for motivating students to submit projects
- To determine alternative incentives to give out for submissions and winners
Significance
- To provide strategies which will attract students towards submitting a project
- To provide the nwHacks team with additional methods for motivating students to submit a project
Research Plan
- Study techniques that are more likely to psychologically incentivise students to submit their project
- Conduct interviews with current nwHacks organizers to analyze their current strategies to motivate students
- Concatenate survey responses
- Aggregate prospective attendees answers for a better hackathon experience – helping students submit their projects
Writing Schedule
Nov 19-23: After instructor approval, send surveys to previous and prospective nwHacks attendees on Facebook
Nov 20: Complete Formal Report Introduction
Nov 23-29: Refine survey data and perform analysis
Nov 30: Construct conclusion for the Formal Report
Dec 4: Draft of Formal Report
Dec 10 – Dec 12: Modifications and cleanup for Formal Report based on fellow peer reviews
Dec 19: Conclude formal report (Due date)
Thanks for reading my progress report. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.
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