UCSB’s 5th annual hackathon is a 36 hour event fostering innovation and creativity through learning by doing, with some wicked prizes up for grabs. While taking breaks from building your projects, you’ll enjoy free meals, attend fun mini-events, interact with industry leaders, and make some friends along the way. We hope to see you there!
Hackathons are often described as a hybrid between a career fair and a science fair. A creative community of programmers - from novices to experienced - come together for 36 hours to make amazing projects. The projects are then judged by tech professionals from the industry and from academia.
SB Hacks V will take place on Friday, January 11, 2019, and conclude on Sunday, January 13, 2019.
SB Hacks is accepting college students, graduate / PhD students, and high school students who are 18 or older.
We are sending buses to UCI, USC, and UCLA. The bus schedule can be viewed here. Unfortunately, we are not offering travel reimbursements this year.
Acceptances go out in early January for California hackers and a bit earlier for out-of-state applicants.
Applications open up late November and will close December 20th.
Our prizes and their accompanying page is in the works and will be up shortly before the event!
You can compete with a team of at most 4 people. If you don't have a team, don't worry about it! We will match you up with compatible teammates at the event.
Bring your laptop, overnight gear, a water bottle, and a photo ID. MLH will be providing a hardware lab.
We have a lot of great prizes ready for this year. Most of them will be announced closer to the event.
You can find the MLH code of conduct here
Feel free to email us with any questions at [email protected]
