Brainhack School
Note
This documentation corresponds to Brainhack School 2025.
An overview of the event is available on our website <https://school-brainhack.github.io>.
Brainhack School
Brainhack school is a community-driven educational event in neuroscience and open science. It is run in parallel at multiple sites across the world, where small groups of students come together in person for four weeks. All students and instructors interact through a central discord server, and share the same training modules. Students also collaborate across sites in project teams.
Why brainhack school?
Coding and other data science skills are much better acquired and solidified through practice. After a one week bootcamp, most of the brainhack training consists of open and collaborative work on a project of your choice. The distributed nature of brainhack school help to make it sustainable by sharing the load of preparing the material across many individuals. It also allows young researchers across the world to work together and build strong collaborations across disciplinary and geographical boundaries.
Developer Documentation
- Guide for Instructors
- Who can be an instructor at the Brainhack School?
- What skill sets and expertise are expected?
- What are the duties of an instructor?
- How is an instructor expected to communicate with the students?
- Does an instructor have to answer the questions from students from other hubs?
- How will an instructor follow the progress of a student?
- What am I expected to do during a clinic/Q&A call?
- What should I do if a student is not progressing with their project?
- What should I do if a student struggles to complete module assignments?
- What should I do if a student asks to be excluded from completing a module, due to already being proficient in the material?
- Updating and Adding Modules
- Guide for Organizers
- Website Overview