Hackathon Innovation Ritual: How we grow our best ideas

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Hackathon Innovation Ritual: How we grow our best ideas

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Hackathon Theme

Overall information about the theme our our Hackathon

💡 A theme is optional but recommended. Good themes inspire and are open ended, don't try to mask feature requests as themes.

💡 Organizers: Capture the theme on this page - it can be as simple as a single word or a single image. Below is the theme we used for a Coda Hackathon where we had a lot of fun as organizers thinking through the theme (Sheet's Creek) and invested a lot more time in fleshing out the theme than we recommend you do for your first Hackathon.

“If heaven had a creek, it would be this one.”

It’s that time of the year when we you need to “hide your diamonds, hide your exes” because we are “a little bit Coda.” Yep, it’s Hackathon 14 and the theme is: Sheet’s Creek. It’s one of those few times when we all can get together as a company, work alongside one another, craft innovative ideas, and simply have some fun.

What’s Sheet’s Creek?

Sheet’s Creek is a play on the now-ubiquitous series Schitt’s Creek. A summary from Wikipedia:

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Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by father and son Eugene and Dan Levy and aired on CBC Television from January 13, 2015, to April 7, 2020. It consists of 80 episodes spread over six seasons. Produced by Not a Real Company Productions and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series follows the formerly wealthy Rose family's trials and tribulations. After Rose's business manager embezzles the family business, Rose Video, the family loses its fortune and relocates to Schitt's Creek, a small town they once purchased as a joke. Now living in a motel, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) and Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara)—along with their adult children, David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)—must adjust to life without money and with each other. The series conception came from Dan Levy, who wondered how wealthy families, as frequently depicted on American reality television, would react if they were to lose all their money. He further developed the series with his father, Eugene, before pitching the series to several Canadian and American networks. The series was first sold to CBC Television in Canada and secured final funding to start production in its sale to Pop TV in the United States, where it debuted on February 11, 2015. Although limited in popularity throughout its first few seasons, the series' appearance on Netflix after its third season is credited for the show's sudden rise in stature, attributed to the "Netflix bump" and a dynamic social media presence. Schitt's Creek received critical acclaim and garnered a cult following, particularly for its writing, humour and acting. The series has won various accolades, including two ACTRA Awards and 18 Canadian Screen Awards. It is the first Canadian comedy series to be nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series. It also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and a total of 19 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series twice. The show received 15 of these nominations for its sixth and final season, setting a record for most Emmy nominations for a comedy series' final season. For its portrayal of LGBTQ+ people, the series was nominated twice for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, winning once. At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the series' final season swept all seven major comedy awards. It was the first time for a comedy or drama series to receive all seven awards: Dan Levy received Outstanding Comedy Series, Writing and Directing for a Comedy Series (the last he shared with Andrew Cividino). It set a record for winning all four major acting categories (Lead Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress) for O'Hara, Murphy and both Levys. Simultaneously, the series set a new record for most Emmy wins by a comedy series in a single season, beating The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's 2018 record.
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