Friday marked Berkeley’s first annual Hackathon, hosted by CSUA and ST@B. Teams of coders were given one night to create an application of any shape or form. A quick recap, by the numbers:
10 teams to begin
4 hackers per team
150 Red Bulls
100 Chipotle burritos
100 sushi rolls
10,000 lines of code
13 drop-outs
3 victims of sleep exhaustion
8 teams in the morning
7.5 completed projects
At around noon on Saturday, after 18 hours of intense coding, the final teams presented their finished products to a panel of industry and faculty judges, including Naval Ravikant of HitForge, Paul Straub of Claremont Creek Ventures, and Professors Brian Harvey and Paul Hilfinger. Projects included a Skype information-retrieval application, a 3D search app, a musical composition program, and a text-based game. The judges awarded prizes to four teams:
1st place: Steven Schlansker, Casey Rodarmor, Borden Liu, and Andrew Toulouse created a physical interpretation of the game Tower Defense.
2nd place (tie): Yiding Jia and Darren Kuo developed an application that aggregated photos to create a photo mosaic.
2nd place (tie): Vikram Haer and John Tsai used Google Maps API to create an online lost and found system.
3rd place: Matt Mieckowski, Ian Henderson, and Adarsh Uppula wrote a program that created music using a drawing tablet.
The winners walked away with some slick prizes, including four Wii’s, four Nintendo DS’s, and four wi-fi t-shirts. We would like to thank the sponsors of the event, hi5, Claremont Creek Ventures, Redux, and Fortis General Council.
Photos from the Hackathon can be found here
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