Hello Hackers :) Hopefully you’re in your beds right now, sleeping off the late nights you’ve spent building the most incredible hacks we’ve ever seen.
From mind controlled golf carts to a political correctness checker to a youtube video summarizer, your ingenuity keeps us excited about hosting Cal Hacks every year, and what a ride it’s been! (lmao see what I did there?)
To our passionate team of 189 volunteers, thank you for making this event possible. If it weren’t for ya’ll we’d still be at the stadium cleaning up and handing out food to a line of 2,100 hangry hackers.
To our amazing sponsors, thank you for making this event possible. Your continued support in creating amazing experiences for students to create and grow means a lot to our hackers.
A big thank you to CITRIS, the Foundry, and Peter Minor for being behind us every step of the way. Seriously Peter, you rock! And shout out to Cal Robotics for keeping the Invention Lab staffed and stocked around the clock for our beloved hardware hackers.
A special place in our hearts goes out to MLH’s Nick Quinlan and Li Chen for helping us put out fires and bringing a big bag of hardware goodies ❤
Of course, shout out to our organizers for creating the dankest memes and having a slightly unsettling obsession with Drake… And putting together the biggest hackathon in history. We did it team!
And how could we forget our hackers! Wow. Wow. Wow. A great big DDoski hug goes out to the 2,100 hackers from 143 schools for storming our stadium.
On behalf of Drake, we’d like to give you all ‘Zero-to-100’ trophies for creating your crazy hacks from literally nothing. Please never stop kicking ass and we’ll all see you next year for Cal Hacks 3.0!
tl;dr: Very hackers. Much fun. Great memories ❤
Love,
The Cal Hacks 2.0 team
Ps. we have a feedback form! Let us know what you loved, what you hated, and what we screwed up on so that we can make Cal Hacks 3.0 even better :)
