Oct 24, 2025: NextEra Energy 24hr Hackathon - NEXT100: Innovate It at Shores Building (LSB)
The NextEra of Emergency Response: A Hackathon to Transform how NextEra Energy Prepares for any Challenge Are you ready to transform the future of home energy? This 24-hour event invites you to team up with NextEra Energy, the parent company of Florida Power & Light, to develop innovative ideas that enhance energy usage and efficiency within the home. Bring your creativity and your ideas! Together, we’ll explore how cutting-edge technologies can improve the customer experience, making homes smarter, safer, and more energy efficient. Our Hackathon brings together students from all majors, with differing skills, creating teams of five, and challenges them to solve a problem using Design Thinking. Solutions can take any form including apps, physical inventions, services, systems, or a combination of the above. This exciting event gives you a chance to dive into NextEra Energy’s innovative culture and reimagine the future of energy in the home with technology, engineering, and communication. No programming skills required! Link for more information and to Register: https://www.innovation.fsu.edu/next100 View on site | Email this event
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The NextEra of Emergency Response: A Hackathon to Transform how NextEra Energy Prepares for any Challenge
Are you ready to transform the future of home energy? This 24-hour event invites you to team up with NextEra Energy, the parent company of Florida Power & Light, to develop innovative ideas that enhance energy usage and efficiency within the home.
Bring your creativity and your ideas! Together, we’ll explore how cutting-edge technologies can improve the customer experience, making homes smarter, safer, and more energy efficient.
Our Hackathon brings together students from all majors, with differing skills, creating teams of five, and challenges them to solve a problem using Design Thinking. Solutions can take any form including apps, physical inventions, services, systems, or a combination of the above.
This exciting event gives you a chance to dive into NextEra Energy’s innovative culture and reimagine the future of energy in the home with technology, engineering, and communication.
No programming skills required!
Link for more information and to Register: https://www.innovation.fsu.edu/next100
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