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Welcome to HopHacks!

Hello hackers! We're excited to see what you come up with during the next 36 hours!   Here's a link to the kickoff slides if you want to view them again. The sponsored prizes are listed in the slides and are also listed below. Links to the sponsor presentations are also below.   If you wanted to check out hardware from Major League Hacking you can now do so in Hackerman 320. We've got Leap Motions, Arduinos, Pebble smartwatches, and SparkCores for you to check out with your ID!   Also, the workshop about using Facebook APIs as well as Parse will now be tonight at 10:30pm in Malone 228.   The sponsor prizes are:
  • Best User Experience - Mission Data - 4*$25 in Gift Cards
  • Best Use of a Google API - Google - Nexus 7 Tablet
  • Most Interesting use of Financial/Econ Data - Bloomberg - It’s a Surprize!!
  • Best use of SendGrid API - SendGrid - 4 Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane Kits
  • Best 1-2 Person Team with Big Data Related Project - Livingly  Media- 2 iPad Airs
  • Best use of Facebook’s Dev Tools (any of FB’s APIs, SDKs, Login, Sharing, Parse) - Facebook - Swag Package
  • Best Healthcare Hack - Epic - $500 Newegg Gift Card
The Bloomberg slides are available here. The Epic slides are available here. Facebook also has some slides available here.   The mentor area is on the first floor of Hackerman Hall on the South (robotics) side.   As a reminder we are all in Hackerman 320, feel free to stop and say hi! Snacks/pizza/drinks will be given out starting at 9:30pm in Hackerman 320.   Also be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for important updates throughout the weekend.   Happy Hacking! The HopHacks Team