https://www.mitec-hack.org/ energyhack2021@mit.edu Hybrid Event November 12-14, 2021 MIT ENERGY HACK 2021 Welcome letter......................................1 What to expect......................................2 Covid guidelines................................... 3 Setting up Tim Tickets (in-person)......4 Platform requirements........................5 In-depth guidelines..............................6 Schedule................................................8 Map.......................................................11 Charge days.........................................13 Team formation.................................15 Challenges...........................................16 Mentorship..........................................17 Important deadlines...........................18 Rules and procedures (read this) ....19 Contact................................................23 Speakers..............................................24 Sponsors..............................................31 Prizes...................................................42 Table of Contents Dear Hackers, Our warmest welcome to EnergyHack 2021! Whether virtually or in-person, we are so excited to have you join us to learn about and solve some of today's most relevant challenges in sustainable energy and climate. With each passing year, the effects of climate change and environmental impacts are felt more and more by communities around the world. Although the prospect of these changes may be intimidating, passionate innovators like YOU are responsible for continuously making our future brighter and moving us toward net-zero carbon emissions. We hope that through participating in EnergyHack 2021, especially emerging from two years of a pandemic, you will embrace the opportunity to collaborate with similarly passionate students from around the world, learn from the sponsors and speakers of the hackathon, and become inspired to continue creating positive changes in the energy landscape. Attached here you will find a comprehensive guide to EnergyHack 2021. For any remaining questions, please email energyhack2021@mit.edu or connect with us on Slack prior to the event: https://join.slack.com/t/energyhackathon2021/shared_invite/zt- yh776m0g-bHuwkBbniO~weFYArTZ3Ew We look forward to seeing you on November 12! --2021 MIT EnergyHack Organizing Team Welcome Letter 1 MIT EnergyHack 2021 will take place in a hybrid format from Friday, November 12 6:00 pm ET , until Sunday, November 14 6:00 pm ET , with several days of lead-up and supplemental programming (Charge Days) beginning Monday, November 8. The hacking period will be 36 hours in duration, from Friday, November 12 at 9:30 pm ET, until Sunday, November 14 at 9:30 am ET (Please note that daylight savings time in the U.S. ends on November 7, which is the weekend before). In-person components of EnergyHack will take place on MIT's campus. Detailed locations are in the map section below. All in- person attendees must comply with MIT's Covid guidelines, detailed below as well. For virtual components, Zoom and Slack will be used. All links to events will be posted on the HackerPortal. To access the schedule and links to all of EnergyHack events and sessions, please access the HackerPortal: Link: https://www.mitec-hack.org/hackerportal. Password: Getdirtyforcleanenergy *** Please do NOT, under any circumstances, share the password for the portal with anyone outside of the event. *** Note: Public events will be shared in the public portion of the website. You can direct interested colleagues or friends there to watch. What to Expect 2 COVID Guidelines Face Coverings - You are required to wear a face covering indoors on campus except when eating or drinking or when alone in a fully enclosed space. This applies to both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. Face coverings are no longer required outdoors, in accordance with current CDC guidance and City of Cambridge protocols. Eating and Drinking - Food and beverages are not permitted in MIT classrooms. Food must only be consumed in designated eating locations. Face coverings must be worn unless you are actively eating or taking a sip of a drink. Attestation - MIT affiliates should attest daily through normal Atlas protocols. Campus visitors are also required to re-attest daily to maintain building access and re-scan their Tim Ticket. EnergyHack organizers will be outside of State (building 32) on Friday, and outside of the student center on Saturday and Sunday (building W20) wearing EnergyHack t-shirts to scan Tim Tickets. Please reach out to us over Slack if you encounter any challenges with Tim Tickets. MIT and the EnergyHack team are committed to the safety of our community. Participants in EnergyHack must comply with the MIT Campus COVID Requirements: Thank you for keeping our community safe and healthy! 3 Click or tap on Visitor. Enter your mobile number and click Send OTP to receive a one-time PIN code via SMS. Enter the PIN code you received and tap Login. Enter your contact details and complete the health attestation. The app will display a QR code you can present to check in All visiting in-person hackers (NOT already in MIT's Covid Pass system) must set up a Tim Ticket to have access to campus. To set up a Tim Ticket, please either follow the link below or scan the barcode: https://tim-tickets.atlas-apps.mit.edu/YKgLerqSGsN6ZwMx5 You will be taken to MIT’s Tim Tickets website. From there, You must submit a health attestation and have an EnergyHack organizer scan your Tim Ticket prior to being granted building access EnergyHack organizers will be outside Stata on the south side on Friday 5:00-6:00 pm to scan Tim Tickets. If you miss this time, please text the Slack channel and a team member will meet you outside as soon as possible. Setting Up Tim Tickets 4 Platform Requirements Zoom: Please ensure that you have access to Zoom, as we will be using Zoom for Charge Day events, as well as mentoring and judging for virtual participants. All necessary Zoom links will be found on the hacker portal. Slack: Please join our Slack workspace using the invite link you have been sent in the same email as this booklet (the slack workspace URL is mitenergyhack2021.slack.com). You will find it helpful to download Slack onto whichever device you plan to use during the hackathon. Slack will be used for communications between the EnergyHack Organizing Team and participants, as well as for participant networking to find teammates. Please make sure to join our Slack workspace before the start of EnergyHack for updates throughout the event. 5 In-Depth Guidelines How to join a Zoom meeting? (We will generally post links that you can click to directly join the call, but here is another way to join a Zoom meeting!) How to host and invite others to your Zoom meeting? (Note that people using free Zoom accounts can only host meetings that are 40 minutes long, at a time) How to control my audio/video during a Zoom meeting? (We ask you to stay muted till you are called upon in every meeting) What is a Zoom webinar? (Some events will be held as a webinar instead of the traditional Zoom meeting. The basic difference is that you will no longer have to worry about your audio/video as only the hosts and panelists will be visible to the audience. For the finals, if you are a finalist you will be promoted to a panelist role on the spot by the host, but are asked to join as a regular attendee at the beginning of the webinar.) How to change your Zoom background? (To get into the spirit of things and feel more integrated with your virtual community, we will be sharing an official hackathon Zoom background! Feel free to use this during the event, if your computer allows this feature) Zoom: Many of you may be familiar with Zoom already! Zoom will be the platform where we hold all our events for virtual participants as well as the majority of Charge Days events. We encourage you to “hack” together by hosting your own team meetings on Zoom as well. You can download it here. Here are some links to help you get started with Zoom, in case you haven’t used it before: 6 In-Depth Guidelines What is Slack? (Please ignore the call feature mentioned—we encourage you to use ‘Zoom’ instead to organize calls/meetings) How to join a Slack Workspace? (You will receive the invite email from us on October 28th) How to update your profile? (We encourage you to update it with your preferred name, current timezone and anything else you would like others to know!) How to send and read messages? (You are encouraged to introduce yourself in the #networking channel when you join - you will automatically be a member of this public channel) How to find other workspace members on Slack? How to send a Direct Message to a person or to a group of people? (You can use this to contact people personally and use the group DM to have a private chat with your team, equivalent to a Whatsapp group) How to share files over Slack? How to mute notifications on Slack? (It can get overwhelming to have a continuous stream of notifications throughout the weekend. You should be able to mute your workspace if you need a break!) Slack: Slack is the messaging + communication platform we will be using for the hackathon. You can download it here. Here are some links to help you get started with Slack, in case you haven’t used it before: We are excited to meet you on Slack soon! 7 All Day: Hacking (W20 - Student Center) 3rd Floor Hackers will be split into two rooms (Mezzanine Lounge & Twenty Chimneys) depending on challenge statement. Room access is from 7:30 am - 11:45 pm. 7:30-8:30 am : Breakfast Served in hacking rooms 12-1 pm : Lunch Served in hacking rooms 6-7 pm : Dinner Served in hacking rooms Schedule All times in U.S. Eastern Time, UTC -5:00. The schedule may also be found on our website at https://www.mitenergyhack.org and on the HackerPortal. All relevant links to events and key forms will be posted on the HackerPortal. 5:00 - 6:00 pm : Sponsor Welcome (Forbes Cafe) and Hacker Check- In (outside 32-123) SCAN YOUR TIM TICKET OUTSIDE OF STATA Opening Ceremony (32-123 - Stata Auditorium) 6:00 - 6:15 pm : Welcome Speech 6:15 - 7:30 pm : Keynote Speeches (SmartFlower, ChargePoint) 7:30 - 8:00 pm : Challenge Statements Presentation 8:00 pm : Closing Remarks 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Dinner Break outside 32-123, Team Formation & Challenge Preferences form open 9:00 pm: Team Formation & Challenge Preferences due 9:30 pm : Hacking Starts! November 12 (Friday) November 13 (Saturday) 8 Schedule All times in U.S. Eastern Time, UTC -5:00. The schedule may also be found on the HackerPortal. All relevant links to events and key forms will be posted on the HackerPortal. 8:30 am: Solution Submission Form Opens 9:00 - 10:00 am : Breakfast Served 9:30 am: Challenges Due! 10:00 am - 1:30 pm : Round 1 Judging *rooms on next page 1:30-2:30 pm : Lunch Served & Judge Deliberations 2:30 - 4:30 pm : Final Judging (32-123 - Stata Auditorium) 4:30 - 5:00 pm : Coffee Break & Judge Deliberations (32-123) Closing Ceremony (32-123 - Stata Auditorium) 5:00 - 6:00 pm : Raffle, Closing Remarks, Awards, Sponsor Appreciation November 14 (Sunday) 9 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Mentoring Hours Both in-person and virtual mentoring will be available. Specific hours + sign ups will depend on challenge mentors and will be announced later. November 13 (Saturday) Schedule All times in U.S. Eastern Time, UTC -5:00. The schedule may also be found on the HackerPortal. All relevant links to events and key forms will be posted on the HackerPortal. Round 1 Judging Rooms 10 ChargePoint Chevron Edison Energy Shell LineVision SmartFlower 32-155 36-156 36-112 36-155 36-153 32-141 First round judging will take place in the rooms below for in-person participants. All judging rooms are on the first floor of their respective building. Zoom links will be provided for virtual teams. Teams will sign up for 10-minute time slots on Saturday; a sign-up will be sent out on Saturday afternoon Map An interactive map is available online at https://whereis.mit.edu 11 Building 32 (Stata Center) 32 Vassar Street Building 36 (Fairchild Building) 50 Vassar Street Building 56 (Whitaker Building) 21 Ames Street Building W20 (Student Center) 84 Massachusetts Avenue Map - Student Center 3rd Floor 12 Charge Days Can't wait for EnergyHack 2021 to begin? Join us November 8-11 for an exciting series of lead-up events to EnergyHack 2021! Network with sponsors, learn about energy research happening at MIT, and win entries into our 2021 EnergyHack raffle, winners TBA at the closing ceremony! All times are in EST, UTC-5:00. The schedule for Charge Days may also be found on the HackerPortal. Links to all public events will be posted there. Monday, NOVEMBER 8 9:30 - 10:30 am: Iberdola/Avangrid Coffee Chat 1:00 - 2:00 pm: ChargePoint Coffee Chat 1:00 - 3:00 pm: SmartFlower Coffee Chat 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Chevron Coffee Chat Tuesday, NOVEMBER 9 10:00 - 11:00 am: Iberdola/Avangrid Coffee Chat 10:30 - 11:30 am: ChargePoint Coffee Chat 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Edison Energy Coffee Chat Wednesday, NOVEMBER 10 11:00 - 12:00 pm: Edison Energy Coffee Chat 2:00 - 4:00 pm: SmartFlower Coffee Chat 3:00 - 4:30 pm: Edison Energy Coffee Chat 7:30 - 9:30 pm : Virtual PhD Symposium Thursday, NOVEMBER 11 All Day : Virtual Challenge (Scavenger, Trivia, Poll) 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Iberdola/Avangrid Info Session 13 Charge Days 14 Coffee Chats (Zoom): Coffee chats will be hosted on Zoom unless otherwise requested by a sponsor. Signup forms for coffee chats will be sent via email. Signups are due end of day Friday 11/5 EST. Zoom links to coffee chats will be sent out on Sunday November 7th. Coffee chats will be in 30 minute slots with sponsors. The allocation will be done on a lottery system and preference will be given to each hackers’ first choice. Coffee chats aim to give hackers a way to engage with the sponsors in smaller groups and build relationships. We ask you to adhere to the 30 minute time period to give time to all interested participants. Coffee chat links should be kept private. Info Sessions (Zoom): Info sessions will be hosted on Zoom unless otherwise requested by a sponsor. Info sessions will be open to all hackers, and links will be posted on the HackerPortal. Info sessions will not be recorded. Info sessions will be approximately MIT Research Symposium (Zoom) Hear five short presentations on energy and climate research happening at MIT! Topics include design of electricity markets, conflicts in renewable energy development, and hydrogen supply chain management. Attendees will get an opprtunity to ask speakers about their presentations. Scavenger, Trivia, Poll (Offline, Google Forms) On your own time over a period of 24 hours, complete a virtual Scavenger hunt, a hacker trivia, and/or a fun fact poll! Each activity will earn you one entry into the EnergyHack 2021 raffle. Winner will be announced at the closing ceremony. CHARGE DAYS RAFFLE For every event that you attend/complete during Charge Days, you will get an entry into a raffle for additional swag!* Three raffle winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. Raffle qualifying events include company info sessions, coffee chats, and all virtual challenges (1 entry per activity). All hackers are required to compete in teams of 3 or 4. We encourage you to use the EnergyHack Slack workspace to introduce yourself and find a team on the #networking channel. For further details on other participants looking for teams, you may reference the participant spreadsheet (posted on the HackerPortal), with the team formation information collected on the RSVP form. If you identify any participants that you are interested in working with, you may message them through Slack. The final period to find teammates is between 8:00-9:00 pm on Friday, November 12 after the Challenge Statement Introductions and before the Team and Challenge Preference form is due. Please use the #networking channel to find teammates at this time, or network in/outside of 32-123. Teams must be finalized by Friday, November 12 at 9:00 pm via the Team and Challenge preference form. Finalize your team by having one member of your team submit the Team and Challenge Preference form. See also “Rules and procedures" The EnergyHack Organizational Team is not responsible for forming teams. However, we will do our best to assist with connecting people by 9:00 pm on Friday 11/12. When forming teams, we encourage you to consider the following: Similar time availabilities during hacking period Your goals for the hackathon and related interests Complementary skill sets and experience to your own, to form a more well-rounded team Team Formation 15 All challenges will be shared during the opening ceremony on Friday November 12th. During the Team and Challenge preference period (8:00-9:00 pm on Friday), each team must rank their preferred challenges via the Team and Challenge Preference form. Challenge assignments will be released at 9:30 pm on Friday, at which point the hacking period will begin. Please watch the Slack channel and HackerPortal during this time for the link to challenge assignments. Once challenge assignments are released, teams will be added to private, challenge-specific slack channels. All challenge assignments are final. Challenges 16 While hacking on Saturday, November 13, you may come up with questions you want to ask the sponsors. You’ll have two ways to ask these questions: office hours and Slack channels. Mentorship Each sponsor will be available on Zoom and in-person on Saturday. During these times, you will be able to ask your questions directly to mentors from your challenge statement. Virtual office hour signups will be distributed in advance. All hackers are asked to only sign up for ONE mentoring time slot, and to respect other hackers' chosen times. If additional time slots are still remaining, hackers may sign up for additional times. In-person mentoring will occur in the room that hackers for a particular challenge are assigned to, no sign-up will be necessary, as mentors will be circulating around tables. Slack Channels Each challenge statement will have a private slack channel that includes only the teams working on that specific challenge statement and company mentors for the statement. You are welcome to use this channel to ask the mentors questions; they have been requested to be available on Slack for as much of typical business hours as possible on Saturday, November 13. You will be added to these channels only once you have been assigned challenges. To Don'ts Please do not direct-message sponsors ; instead, direct questions via the above two options, or to the EnergyHack organizing team for logistical questions. Mentorship 17 Friday November 12, 5:00-6:00 pm Scan TIM TICKET outside Stata (building 32) if MIT campus guest Friday, November 12, 8:00 pm Team Registration and Challenge Preference Form opens Friday, November 12, 9:00 pm Team Registration and Challenge Preference form due (one submission per team) Your team must complete the form by this time in order to compete. Friday, November 12, 9:30 pm Challenge assignments released Check Slack or HackerPortal for assignments All challenge assignments are final Friday, November 12, 9:30 pm – Sunday, November 14, 9:30 am Hacking period Be sure to check Slack regularly for updates! Sunday, November 14, 8:30 am Submission form for challenge solution opens. Check Slack and/or HackerPortal for the link Sunday, November 14, 9:30 am Submissions (one slidedeck per team) due Sunday, November 14, 9:45 am First round judging time slot assignments released Sunday, November 14, 2:30 pm Finals Finalists will be announced by the Organizing Committee prior to the beginning of final round judging. Please see Rules & Procedures for detailed information All times in U.S. Eastern Time, UTC -5:00. Important Deadlines 18