Hack UCSC 2017
Over 300 students participated in this year’s UCSC hackathon from Jan. 20-22. Almost 100 different projects were submitted to be judged by professionals in the technology industry. The two largest categories were Tech Cares, which aimed to apply technology to help people, and Innovation, which...
What Can You Create in 46 Hours?
Mark Adams and other organizers went door-to-door, to every computer science class on campus, to find participants for the first annual UC Santa Cruz hackathon last year. One year later, Adams doesn’t have to knock on any doors; roughly 300 students, compared to last...
An ‘App’titude for Creativity
Brian Vallelunga, Jashan Dhillom and Ronnie Wilcox may not have slept much last weekend, but they earned $4,000 and first place in UC Santa Cruz’s first ever hackathon. Around 100 individuals congregated at the Oakes Learning Center last weekend to conceive and execute an idea...
‘Hacking’ the Path to New Opportunities
Hackathon will award a total of $10,000 to student developers