Big Earth Hackathon: Wildland Fire Challenge bridges the gap between innovation and impact by bringing Stanford students together with real-world stakeholders to design, build, and prototype solutions to one of today’s most pressing global systems crises — wildfire.

Big Earth Hackathon is a 9 week challenge and optional companion course launching fall quarter at Stanford, open to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs across all disciplines at Stanford. Teams will tackle some of the most pressing wildfire challenges – from early detection and suppression, to fuel management, to community prevention – developing technology solutions using a user-centered design approach. Teams hear directly from practitioners and stakeholders who define the needs, and are supported by technical workshops throughout the quarter.