Eligibility

This ScoutHack event is open to Scouts and Venturers. Other events will be provided for other sections and adults as necessary. Please contact info@scouthack.com to register your interest.

Previous attendees are absolutely welcome to participate in the course again, where they will upskill their experiences to become better coders.

Prerequisites

This course is an introductory course and has no previous course requirements.

Requirements

Participants should pack:

• Warm clothes for each day
• Toiletries
• Sleeping bag, sleepwear, and a fitted sheet to cover bunk matresses

Participants should leave at home:

• Games and gaming systems
• Personal laptops/computers as ScoutHack provides equipment for all participants to use

Course provides:

The ScoutHack team provides all technology required for the course, including:

• Laptops for use during the course
• Secondary monitors for a better development experience
• Internet resources for building digital resources and assets
• On-site development server and LAN for a unified, speedy experience for all
• Tutorial and instruction, and adult supervision from super cool enthusiastic techno Scout Leaders!

SIA documentation for ScoutHack

Would you like to complete a SIA project while at ScoutHack? You will need to make sure you have your SIA Project Plan approved by your Unit Council before attending. This list of course outcomes can help you develop your aims and goals when doing your planning.

Introductory

• Understand the different components that make up a Local Area Network
• Build a website using HTML that includes text, headings, line breaks, bold text, italic text and paragraphs

Intermediate

• Build a website using HTML that includes images, documents, links, lists and tables
• Use an inline CSS style to set a colour
• Use an external CSS style sheet to separate style from content
• Try different CSS colour systems
• Use the Bootstrap CSS framework to improve website styling

Advanced

• Build a web server with Python Flask to collect information via a HTML form, store form data as a CSV file and then display CSV data using HTML
• Use the Jinja2 templating system to reduce duplication of common web page components

If this is your first ScoutHack you will complete the introductory skills, most of the intermediate skills and maybe some advanced skills. If you have attended a ScoutHack before or have previous experience with web development then to make sure your SIA project is challenging you should focus on the Intermediate and Advanced skills.