Hack Downtown 🏙️

WHEN: February 22nd-23rd, 2025

WHERE: Rice Hall

HACKATHON CHAIR CONTACT:

Stephanie Lim: dvz3bg@virginia.edu

Caroline Xu: xdz3ke@virginia.edu

BOARDING NOW 🧳 DESTINATION: Rice Hall 🗺️ TIME: Feb. 24th and 25th ✈️

BOARDING NOW 🧳 DESTINATION: Rice Hall 🗺️ TIME: Feb. 24th and 25th ✈️

 

ABOUT

Embark on a coding adventure like never before with WiCS @ UVA's annual hackathon, Hack the Map! This is a beginner-friendly hackathon designed to fuel your passion for coding while exploring the intersection of travel, maps, and culture! Our aim is to inspire all coders, with a special focus on minorities in the CS industry, to spread their wings, explore new horizons, and create innovative and collaborative projects.

 
 
Get Ready for the @wicsatuva 2025 Hackathon: Hack Downtown! 🌃⭐ • 📅 Date/Time: Friday, Feb 22 – Saturday, Feb 23 📍 Location: Rice Hall, 85 Engineer’s Way, Charlottesville, VA • Dive into 24 hours of creativity and innovation,
LAST CALL!! If you haven’t already, register for Hack the Map today!!☁️🗺️ • 💻 workshops to help you learn how to code and create a project 🍬 fun activities throughout the day (involving candy, dancing, games, and more!) 🧑‍💻 studen
We have recruitment opportunities during the hackathon! Check our website for a Coffee Chat Guide and scan the QR codes to sign-up for a slot☕️ There are limited slots and they’re going fast so be sure to sign-up ASAP!!
Take a look at all these super helpful workshops that are gonna take place at Hack the Map! Attending one workshop will give you one entry to our raffle, which will have lots of fun prizes! The more workshops you attend, the more entries you’ll
 

PRIZE TRACKS

(all prizes are per person)

General Track:

  • Best Hack Overall: Considers innovation/originality, how efficient it is in tackling problems/challenges, and user experience/usability

    Prize: iPad and Apple Pencil

  • Best UI/UX Hack: Designs that incorporate the best UI/UX design; factoring in aesthetics, innovation, usability, and service to the project.

    Prize: Digital Camera and SD Adaptor

  • Most Innovative Hack: Designs that are beyond out of the box, creating solutions or implementations that do something entirely novel.

    Prize: Sony Headphones


Beginner Track:

  • Best Beginner Hack Overall: Typically for those who are first-time hackers or with fewer years of experience (limited coding knowledge).

    Prize: Owala Waterbottles


Travel Track:

  • Best Travel/Transportation Tool Hack: Submitting a project related to travel/transportation, whether it includes making transportation more efficient/sustainable or easing the process of traveling (tour guides, booking flights, etc.).

    Prize: North Face Jester Backpack and Airtag

  • Best Connection/Connectivity Hack: Projects related to bringing people together and networking, communicating across distances in a user-friendly yet innovative way.

    Prize: JBL Mini Speakers

 

FAQS

  • A hackathon is a collaborative programming event in which people work together to develop creative solutions to engineering-based problems, usually related to a specific theme or concept.

  • All students, regardless of school, age, gender, and experience are welcome!

  • No prior programming experience is required. Hack the Map is a beginner-friendly hackathon!

  • February 24th - 25th @ Rice Hall.

  • Hack the Map is FREE for all participants, thanks to our amazing sponsors! Participation includes free swag and food throughout the event.

  • A team can have 1-4 members.

  • Not to worry! You’ll meet plenty of people when you get here, at our team-building event. Many people go to hackathons without teams, so it’s perfectly normal to go around to people, tell them you’re looking for a team, and ask if you can help out. You can also join a team on our Discord and sign up together on our Devpost.

 
 
 
 

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