Silvia Figueira -- Hack for Humanity

Yay to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!

Main prizes:
1st Place: VaxTrax (Mubashir Hussain, Matthew Mistele, Grace Tantra, Patrick Lee, Manasvini Hothur)
2nd Place: ASL Made Easy (Morgan Fleshren, Vasilis Odysseos, Théo Arrouye)
3rd Place: California Re-Entry ID Tool (Connor Azzarello, Ekam Brar, Jay Kanakiya)
Other Prizes:
Xilinx Best Hack by Women in Tech: Re-entry Hub - Kamya Krishnan, Neena Ekanathan, Maddie Waldie, Divya Syal
CrowdStrike Best Security Hack: Dotchain: A Temporary Private Blockchain - Luke Poltorak and Sudhish Sewpaul
Microsoft Best Use of Azure: Quick Bites - Stephen Mistele, Kim do
Math & CS Best Sponsored Application of Theory: Graph Visualizer - John Lu, Junhyun Lim, Shaunak Mashalkar
Best Use of echoAR: ASL Made Easy - Morgan Fleshren, Vasilis Odysseos, Théo Arrouye
Ciocca Center Sponsored Most Interdisciplinary Award: Locals - Malika Singh, Chantel Allegakoen, Ananya Pagadala, Elaine Chen, Amanda Nguyen, Harini Ram
School of Law Sponsored Best Reentry ID Tool: TIE between California Re-Entry ID Tool - Connor Azzarello, Ekam Brar, Jay Kanakiya & Re-Entry Hub - Kamya Krishnan, Neena Ekanathan, Maddie Waldie, Divya Syal

Thanks to the mentors:

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Susan Stasi
Isaac Zama
Magatte Wade

Thanks to the judges:
Prof. Ahmed Amer, SCU
Prof. Behnam Dezfouli, SCU
Prof. Yi Fang, SCU
Prof. Navid Shaghaghi, SCU
Prof. Nicholas Tran, SCU

Thanks to our sponsors:

Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for an awesome and well-organized event!
Special thanks to all board members for helping before, during, and after the hachathon, particularly xxx.

Congrats to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!

• 1st Place, $1,500: YEATS
  Grace Ling, Jacob Lucke, Carson Hom, Reece Carolan, Carly Kellner, Uma Bahl
• 2nd Place, $1,000: The Second Chance Gap
  Connor Azzarello, Anthony Chen, Teddy Nguyen, Christian Yang, Hithesh Sekhar Bathala
• 3rd Place, $500: Ceiling
  Maggie Dong, Zak Graber, Arianne Soriano, Matthew Zhang
• Markkula Ethics prize, $500: Elect
  Aastha Chawla, Mariah Manzano, Story DeWeese, Antonio Gigliotti, Andy Meger
• Microsoft Azure prize, Xbox: Better Plant
  Connor Callahan, Curtis Chou (Skyline College), Brian Hong
• Interdisciplinary prize, $500: Bronco Transit Hub
  Hanna Albright, Yu Yang Chee, Madeline Golliver, Helen Kassa, Amanda Taylor

Thanks to the mentors:
Paul Ahrens, SCU Alum, NVidia
Tim Shur, SCU Alum, Google
Ronak Gajrawala, SCU Alum
Alex Choulos, SCU Alum, Apple
Vincente Ciancio, SCU Alum, Facebook
Jen Luo, SCU student
Navid Shaghaghi, SCU CS Professor
Thomas Chung, SCU Alum
Muna Sinada, SCU Alum
Shabnum Habib, Accenture

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Ron Snyder, Cisco Systems
Susan Stasi, Rose Academies
Silvia Figueira, SCU CSE Professor

Thanks to the judges:

• Side Prizes:
  Markkula Ethics prize: Ahmed Amer, SCU CSE Professor
  Microsoft Azure prize: Rachel Goldstein, SCU Alum, Microsoft
  Interdisciplinary prize: Chris Norris, SCU Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Main Prizes:
  Tim Burks, Google
  Chia Hwu, startup
  Gideon Shannan, CTO of a company that encourages political action
  Eric Nielsen, VMWare
  Elizabeth Sweeny, SCU Alum and lecturer, Google
  Ron Snyder, Cisco
  Blake Tsuzaki, Apple
  Lily Chang, VMWare and Lecturer at SCU Business School
  Sara Krehbiel, SCU CS Professor
  Howard Levinson, SCU Professor
  Yi Fang, SCU CSE Professor

Thanks to our sponsors:
SCU School of Engineering
SCU Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
SCU Frugal Innovation Hub
SCU Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Accenture
Microsoft
Xilinx
Proofpoint
Yerba Mate
Woofs Bar

Fun Facts: This year, we had 32 students from outside SCU. They represented 10 different universities from 4 countries:
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India (1 student)
University of Waterloo, Canada (6 students)
National University of Singapore (12 students)
Oregon State University (2 students)
University of California, Berkeley (4 students)
Skyline College (1 student)
Mission College (2 students)
Sierra College (2 students)
San Francisco State University (1 student)
De Anza College (1 student)

Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for an awesome and well-organized event!
Special thanks to all board members for helping before, during, and after the hachathon, particularly Christine Chye, Philip Cori, Olivia Figueira, Yuka Hatori, Liying Liang, Matthew Mistele, and Tiana Nguyen.

Congrats to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!
Education: First Gen College Helper - Emma Pollans, Sarah Lopez, Micaela Gallegos, Dipti Gupte
Health: BeacON - Akshay Prabhakaran, Jeffrey Huang, Andrea Horvath, Shreya Venkatesh
Sustainability: Dr-Recycle - Harshavardhan Srinivas, Emily Zhang, Ryan Schulz, Eryue Liang, Weipeng Zheng, Shao Baan
Creativity: Swing Beat - Edmond Howser, David Kerr, Brinda Pabari

Thanks to the mentors:
Dr. Michele Parker
Jason Krein
Navid Shaghaghi
Vincente Ciancio
Alex Choulos
Sheila Yuter
Hanzhuo Gong
Khang Hoang
Jenn Viane Riese

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Aaron Willis, (SCU, Ignatianl Center)
Skip Everling (Clarifai)

Thanks to the judges:
Allan Baez Morales (SCU FIH)
Kenny Spade (Microsoft Garage)
Kunal Batra (AWS)
Shashank Prasanna (AWS)
Jack Kingsman (SCU Alumnus, Chartio)
Vincente Ciancio (SCU Alumnus, Facebook)
Tim Burks (Google)
Chris Norris (SCU CIE)

Thanks to the entertainers:
SCU Comedy Club
Nick Ellis and Olivia Figueira

Thanks to our sponsors:
SCU Frugal Innovation Hub
SCU School of Engineering
SCU Computer Engineering Department
SCU Ignatian Center (Education Prize)
SCU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Creativity Prize)
SCU Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (Sustainability Prize)
Clarifai (Health Prize)
Microsoft Garage
Amazon Web Services

Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for an awesome and well-organized event!
Special thanks to Paul Ahrens and Jen Luo for leading the effort! And thanks to all board members for helping before and during the hachathon!

Congrats to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!
1st: Vigil -- Evan Johnson
2nd: DNKRK (Distributed Network Kernel and Response Kit) -- Anthony Fenzl
3rd: Disaster Data Drone -- Donovan Allen, Jay Ladhad, Sean Kelker, Steven Bucher

Thanks to the judges:
Robbie Aldrich
Alex Choulos
Julian Callin
Jack Kingsman
Patrick Lanthier
Sean Lanthier
Mostafa Mortezaie
Ron Snyder

Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for an awesome and well-organized event!
Special thanks to Paul Ahrens and Jen Luo for leading the effort! And thanks to all board members for helping before and during the hachathon!

Congrats to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!
1st: Symtome: Quintin Wilde, Glen Chandler, Dante Dalla Gasperina, Alex Seto
2nd: Trees GO: Eugene Chiang, Ankita Upadhyay, Yueqi Su, Guoze (Zack) Zhuang, Sneha Ramesh
3rd: Helping Hands: Aram Nazarian, Andrew Michelmore, and Alton Chau, Jimmy Patel, Nick Rinaldi, Fred Freyzi

Thanks to the mentors:
Blake Tsuzaki (CSE/EE 17)
Gus Beyer (CSE 16)
Erik Chang (CSE 16)

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Sachin Jain, SJ Mayor's Office
Daniel Lottis, IEEE SIGHT

Thanks to the judges:
Vincente Ciancio (CSE 16), Entefy
Jordan Buschman, (CSE 16) CourseHero
Aarun Chung (CSE/EE 15), Cisco

Thanks to our sponsors:
IEEE SIGHT
SCU Frugal Innovation Hub
SCU School of Engineering
SCU Computer Engineering Department
SCU Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Redbull, thanks Kellen Bryan (CSE 18)!

Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for an awesome and well-organized event!
ACM: Alex Choulos, Taylor Mau, Kevin Qian, Thomas Chung, Thomas Nguyen, Julian Callin, Paul Ahrens, Angela Shao
ACM-W: Muna Sinada, Malika Mission, Lauryn Gayhardt, Isabela Figueira, Neesha Godbole, Angelina Poole, Story DeWeese, Christina Farran

Congrats to all the participants! Great job everybody!!

Special congrats to the winners!
1st: BetterMe, by Nathan Kerr (CSE 18), Gurneev Sareen (CSE 18), Vishanth Iyer (CSE 18)
2nd: DropZone, by Deion Graham-Long (CSE 18), Sanjay Tamizharasu (CSE 17)
3rd: DonateMe, by Abhishek Birjepatil (MS CSE), Nathan Gaini (MS CSE)

Thanks to our partners!
VillageTech Solutions
Catholic Charities

Thanks to our ACM chapter for an awesome and well-organized event!
Robert Aldrich (CS 16)
Roshan Ramankutty (CSE 16)
Adithya Prabhakaran (CSE 16)
Alex Choulos (CSE 17)
Taylor Mau (CSE/EE 18)

Thanks to the volunteers:
Blake Tsuzaki (CSE/EE 17) and Danny Hernandez (CSE 16)

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Gregory Kepferle, Catholic Charities
Skip Stritter, VillageTech Solutions

Thanks to the judges:
Michael Weber, IEEE SIGHT
Tracey Acosta (CSE 15), Accenture
Aarun Chung (CSE/EE 15), Cisco

Thanks to our sponsors:
Accenture
IEEE SIGHT
VillageTech Solutions
Catholic Charities
Frugal Innovation Lab
School of Engineering

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BusinessWire

Congrats to all the participants! What an awesome crowd!!

Special congrats to the winners!
1st: OpenDoor - Nathan Kerr (CSE 18), Alex Seto (EE/CSE 18), Kelly Wesley (CSE 18), and Kunal Dhillon (CS at UCSC 18)
2nd: H4H: Home for the Homeless - Venkata S K Modalavalasa (MS CSE)
3rd: DataTrac - Alex McAfee (CSE 16), Pranav Bheda (CSE 17), Arman Elahi (CSE 17), Malika Mission (CSE 17)

Thanks to CTA for an amazing partnership!
CTA's Blog

Thanks to ACM and ACM-W for an amazing event!
Robert Aldrich (CS 16), Vincente Ciancio (CSE 16), Paige Rogalski (CSE 15), Roshan Ramankutty (CSE 16), Adithya Prabhakaran (CSE 17), and Blake Tsuzaki (CSE 17)

Thanks to the pitch speakers:
Jen Padgett, CTA
Chuck Jagoda, CTA
Seth Marbin, Google
Daniel Lottis, WD

Thanks to the judges:
Jen Padgett, CTA
Michael Weber, IEEE SIGHT
Tharun Kumar, Dew Mobility
Chuck Jagoda, CTA, DST
Cheriece Williams, WD
Parth Vasavada, WD
Shweta Panditrao, CSE 14, Yahoo!
Zuhayr Elahi, MS 14, HP

Thanks to our sponsors:
Western Digital, IEEE SIGHT, Adobe, RedBull, Frugal Innovation Lab, School of Engineering

Special thanks to:
Natalie Linnell, Math/CS for all her help and support.
Allan Baez, CTA, for helping with the organization and during the event.
Alec Go, Google, for stopping by on Saturday to help the students.

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