ACM Hack Week
From March 3rd to March 7th, Georgia Tech ACM will be partnering again with Yahoo for Yahoo! Hack Week. Throughout the week, students will be treated to free food, demonstrations, raffles, game tournaments, tech talks, and a Yahoo! Atlanta round table, as well as insights into future technologies.
The culmination of Hack Week will be a 24 hour coding competition where contestants will design and develop a fully functioning application. Both undergraduate and graduate students are allowed and encouraged to participate. There are no rules regarding specific topics, but category specific prizes will be awarded. At the end of the competition, each entry will be scrutinized according to problem definition, the creativity of the hack, the difficulty of the problem being addressed, and the presentation of the hack to the judges. Past projects can be found at http://developer. yahoo.com/hacku/.
ACM will present prizes and trophies at the awards ceremony on March 7th. This year's first prize is set to be an HDTV, and the first place regional winner will also compete in round two of Hack Week competitions in Sunnyvale, California, and recieve a chance to intern with Yahoo!.
Take advantage of this event to network and socialize with College of Computing students as well as Yahoo! employees. For more information, watch out for flyers around the CoC and Klaus buildings and join the ACM group on Facebook.
