Adam Sand, Tara, and CTO Jose ran the first day by dividing participants into teams and rotating judges through breakout rooms. A central Forge Zoom and Slack channel kept everyone connected while judges offered real-time feedback to maintain momentum.
We want you to come together as a team and we want to see you kind of like create something from scratch, right? And so we didn't give them the rubric upfront. And so that Tuesday where we half— we shut down for half a day, we gave them— we split them off into their teams and there was 3 judges, me, Tara, and Jose, the CTO. And what we did was bounce— we hosted a Zoom room Which was like the main Forge Zoom room. Tara created a Forge Slack channel, and so that's where we kept all the updates and the, like, the cool vibes and the fun and the hype. That stayed in the Forge, but then everybody broke off into their own Zoom rooms so that myself, Tara, and Jose could bounce between rooms. Tara mostly stayed in the Forge main Zoom room. And And then we bounced around between them to like just help give ideas, qualify, you know, you know, just say like, oh, we think you're on the right track with that, or maybe that could be better or something like that. But we jumped around between the rooms to keep everybody kind of amped up, and that was what we did with the first day.
