Email for Informing Potential Challenge Holders

Dear sir/madam, Our school is pleased to inform you that we are conducting a #EduFoodHack hybrid hackathon!

A hackathon is a rather fluid concept which essentially entails a short intensive event in which participants from all walks of life, with all sorts of expertise, work together to solve complex issues. When a hackathon uses technology to more efficiently collaborate, not only face to face but also online, it is called a hybrid hackathon. #EduFoodHack is an initiative that addresses food waste issues through collaboration between classrooms in different European countries.

Through this hybrid hackathon, our students will be thoroughly researching and solving real-world societal issues using creative and innovative methods, allowing them to create for themselves a hugely valuable learning experience. They will learn and ideate together and provide feedback on eachother, further enhancing the solutions they come up with.

Our school has chosen to take up the challenge to help tackle food waste and to make education grow alongside the needs and wants of both our students and society as a whole. In order to make our hackathon a reality, we need to make the connection to the real world. To solve a societal challenge, we first need to find them. We are emailing you to ask you these following questions:

Do you want to contribute to a more sustainable food system?

Do you want to see your day to day operations be made more sustainable through innovative design techniques by our students, in order to make your organisation future proof?

Do you want to provide our students with a valuable real-life learning experience and help them experience education in a vastly different light?

If the answer to any of these questions is "yes", we would love to meet with you and formulate a proper challenge together, so there is a clear objective for both yourself and our students.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read our email. We hope to hear from you soon!