Hackathon Schedule

Friday, Feb 5th

7 pm: Start arriving and signing in

8 pm: Welcome

8:30 pm: Ice-Breakers

9:15 pm: Finalize Groups

9:30 pm: Start hacking

12 am: midnight snacks (don’t have to stay for this)

Saturday, Feb 6th

9 am:

Bagel Breakfast - Sponsored by Visco

10 am:

Robotics: "Autonomous Robots Test Ideas About the Evolution of Brains." - John Long, Professor of Biology and Cognitive Science

11 am:

Alumni Talk: “Allyson Pemberton: Vassar Alum & Google Employee Q & A”

12 pm:

Pasta Lunch - Sponsored by Frenzy

1 pm:

Game Development & Game Design: “How to make games quick!”

Thomas Lum, junior Computer Science major

2 pm:

Alumni Talk: “Casey Hancock: Virtual Reality”

3 pm:

Tech Talk: “Hacking with APL” brought to you by our sponsor, Dyalog

APL will warp your mind – you'll view programming and data from a new perspective. APL can help you cope with this world of lots of data and lots of change. Today's presentation will feature a brief introduction to APL and several demonstrations of its use in data analysis.

Best of all – the world's leading APL – Dyalog APL - is available to students for free! Come check it out and get yours today! **Raspberry Pi’s will be provided for people to use APL on**

4 pm:

Web Development: “Animating Websites”

Sufyan Abbasi,  sophomore CS major

** Start wrapping up. Submit projects to DevPost by 5 pm **

5 pm:

Science Fair Style Demos

6 pm:

Pizza Dinner - Sponsored by VC CS Department

/ judges decide winners over dinner.

6:45 pm:

Winners Announced

7 pm: Hackathon over!

Preview of Prizes at CommunityHack

** Most Entertaining Hack - given to the project that makes people laugh the most!

** Most Technically Ambitious Hack - given to the project that shows complexity of technologies used!

** Most Helpful Hacker - given to the hacker who selflessly helps out others

** Best Design - given to the project that shows incredible design

** Most Potential Hack - given to the hack with the most potential to help hackers’ choice of community

** Most Learned for a Hack Hacker - given to the hacker who came in with minimal experience and learned a bunch!

** Best Elevator Pitch - given to the Hack that has the best 30 second elevator pitch!

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Preview of Prizes at CommunityHack

** Most Entertaining Hack - given to the project that makes people laugh the most!

** Most Technically Ambitious Hack - given to the project that shows complexity of technologies used!

** Most Helpful Hacker - given to the hacker who selflessly helps out others

** Best Design - given to the project that shows incredible design

** Most Potential Hack - given to the hack with the most potential to help hackers’ choice of community

** Most Learned for a Hack Hacker - given to the hacker who came in with minimal experience and learned a bunch!

** Best Elevator Pitch - given to the Hack that has the best 30 second elevator pitch!

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Register on Eventbrite: bit.ly/CommunityHack2016

• Most Entertaining Hack
  Given to the project that is the most enjoyable to learn about
• Most Helpful Hack
  Given to the project that has the most potential to help the hackers' choice of community
• Most learned for a Hack Hacker
  Given to the hacker who came in with minimal experience and learned a bunch! Kudos for giving coding a try! Hope you had fun :)
• Best Elevator Pitch
  Given to the group who gave the best 30 second elevator pitch!