Welcome Package May 25-26, 2018 University of Waterloo JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall (RCH)
Schedule* Friday May 25th 6:00 PM 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Registration and Career Fair Opening Ceremonies Hacking Begins! 3rd floor commons RCH 101 8:30 PM - 12:00 AM Career fair & activities 3rd floor commons 8:00 PM TD Labs: Intro to Machine Learning RCH 101 8:30 PM Rangle.io Workshop: Building and RCH 302 deploying an app in an hour 9:30 PM StdLib: Introduction to StdLib RCH 302 10:30 PM StdLib: Introduction to JavaScript RCH 302 11:00 PM Ritual: Intro to ios RCH 101 Saturday May 26th 12:00 AM 1:00 AM 8:00 AM Midnight snacks Kahoot Breakfast 2nd floor commons RCH 101 2nd floor commons 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Workshops & activities 9:00 AM Bell: Intro to Machine Learning with Keras 10:00 AM ConSensys: Blockchain 101 12:00 PM Lunch RCH 302 RCH 101 2nd floor commons 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Workshops and activities 2:00 PM Okta @ Scale: Managing a User s Lifecyle, RCH 101 Provisioning and Enforcing Code Style. 3:00 PM Devpost Submission deadline project info must be submitted on Devpost 5:00 PM Hacking Ends - projects must be submitted on Devpost (https://enghack2018.devpost.com/) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Judging 6:30-6:50 PM 6:50 PM - 8:00 PM Dinner Closing Ceremonies 2nd floor commons RCH 101 * subject to change; updates will be announced in the #general channel on Slack
Navigation EngHack will be held at the JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall (RCH) on the University of Waterloo main campus. For directions to the campus, please refer to this link. Communication If you haven t already, come join our official Slack channel: enghack2018.slack.com. This will be our main communication method for the event! If you have any questions or concerns about the event, feel free to send your questions to the directors and coordinators on Slack. The mentors can be reached in the #mentors channel mentors will reply in threads to your question for quick and efficient feedback. They will also be roaming around the rooms, so feel free to reach out to them if they swing by.
Available Hardware Arduino Uno Arduino Leonardo Raspberry Pi B (6 model b 512 mb 7 model b) Raspberry Pi 5 Google Cardboard PIR Motion Sensor RF Receiver Sparkfun RFID Evaluation Field Sparkfun Captive Touch Keypad Sparkfun Capacitive Touch Sensor GPS Shield Digital Potentiometer Ultrasonic Distance Sensor ZX Distance and Gesture Sensor Parrot Drone 32 8 13 (6 model b 512 mb, 7 model b) 5 14 3 10 7 2 2 5 2 2 1 1 * Please bring your WatCard/ID to borrow hardware Submissions and Judging We will be using DevPost to handle submissions and judging. All details will be on https://enghack2018.devpost.com/
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Sponsor Challenges & Prizes StdLib Best use of StdLib API Nintendo Switch for every team member.tech Category Prize $250 Amazon Voucher Feature your cool hackathon project on your free.tech domain name. Make sure to make your full.tech domain your official team name and mention the URL while submitting it on Devpost! indico Machine Learning API Challenge: $500 in indico Machine Learning API credit per winning team member Sketch Project with best UI Design Free 1 year subscription to Sketch App 1Password Project with the best Security features 12 months free of 1Password Wolfram Challenge Best Use of Wolfram API (Top 15 teams) One year subscription to Wolfram One Personal Edition Ritual - Best project/hack targeting the food services industry $100 in Ritual credit for the winning team (must have Ritual account to redeem) JetBrains KAHOOT winners Annual subscription to IntelliJi IDEA Ultimate
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Safety Designated Sleeping Areas RCH 101 (1AM-9AM) RCH 204, 205 Emergency Important Contact Information Keer Liu 519 722 3080 Winnie Ren 778 990 1988 Contact Website http://enghack.uwaterloo.ca/ Email enghack@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca
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