January 25-26, 2020

Texas A&M University

Connect with hackers!






Event Information

Parking

Lot 61
133-155 John Kimbrough Blvd, College Station, TX 77840

*Free in unmarked spaces EXCEPT Saturday, 12:30PM - 3:30PM will charge $5 for each entry during that time due to a basketball game.

Lot 74
730 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77845

*Free in unmarked spaces

Venue

Memorial Student Center
730 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77845 View Building Map

*Main hacking location will be in the Bethancourt Ballroom (room 2300), quiet hacking in room 2400, and workshops in West Wing

*While you do not have to sleep at the MSC, if you leave the venue after 12AM, you cannot re-enter until 7AM.

Schedule

Saturday

9:00 AM
Doors Open, Check-In Starts
10:30 AM
Walk-In Check-In Starts
11:00 AM
Opening Ceremony
12:00 PM
Hacking Begins
12:15 PM
Team Formation
1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
All Check-In Ends
1:00 PM
Meet & Greet with Miss Reveille
1:30 PM

Hackathon 101

Room 2502 | TAMUhack

1:30 PM

Three Powerful Google Cloud Products for Your Project

Room 2500 | Google Cloud

2:00 PM

Crash Course: Hackathon Project to Funded Startup

Room 2501 | Contrary

2:00 PM

Day in the Life of a Software Dev

Room 2502 | State Farm

2:30 PM

Intro to Containerization Using Docker

Room 2500 | USAA

3:00 PM

Programming with RESTful API: How to Interact with Servers at Scale Using Python

Room 2500 | HPE

3:30 PM

Fireside Panel with American Airlines Head of Emerging Technologies

Room 2500 | American Airlines

4:30 PM

Breakout Session: Fly the Drone!

Room 2502 | PwC

4:30 PM

Starting a MongoDB Container

Room 2500 | Southwest Airlines

5:00 PM

Recruiting Panel/Tech Event

Room 2500 | JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6:00 PM

Airplane Throwing Competition

Check-in Area | American Airlines

7:00 PM

How Machine Learning is Driving PropTech

Room 2500 | CBRE

7:30 PM
Dinner
7:30 PM

Women in Computer Science/Ladies Storm Hackathons Meet-Up

Room 2500 | AWiCS/LSH

8:30 PM

Gartner Chatbot Workshop

Room 2501 | Gartner

9:00 PM
MLH Cup Stacking/Raffle Drawing
9:30 PM
Snack
10:00 PM
Bob Ross MS Paint
10:30 PM
Talent Show

Sunday

12:00 AM
Midnight Snack
1:00 AM
Frozen T-Shirt Contest
7:00 AM
Breakfast
11:30 AM
Submissions Due
12:00 PM
Hacking Ends
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Judging Expo
3:30 PM
Closing Ceremony
5:00 PM
TAMUhack Ends, Buses Depart

Workshop

Food

Mini-Event

Hacker Resources

Connect with Hackers

FACEBOOK

Share photos and videos of the event!

SLACK

Communicate with companies and hackers in specialized channels.

WiFi Information

Network SSID: TAMU_Visitor

Password: None

Submit Your Hack

DEVPOST

All submissions are due on Sunday at 10:30 AM!

Get Help

HACKATHON 101

Get some useful tips and tricks, especially for first-time hackers.

MENTORSHIP

Recieve hacking help from awesome mentors.

Emergency Contact

TAMU Police

(979) 845-2345

Prizes

More details can be found on our 2020 Devpost.

1st Place

iPads (Latest Gen) + Apple Pencil

Best Beginner Hack

Glorious GMMK Keyboards

Best UI/UX

Philips Hue White LED Smart Button Starter Kits + Echo Dot (3rd Gen)

2nd Place

Nintendo Switches + Mario Kart 8 Download

Best Innovative Hack

Logitech MX Master 2S Wireless Mouses

Hacker Favorite

JBL Charge 3s

3rd Place

Bose QC 35-2s + Fitbit Inspires

Best Hardware Hack

DJI Tello Drones + Extra Battery

Best Use of Devpost

$20 Visa Giftcard

1st Place

iPads (Latest Gen) + Apple Pencil

2nd Place

Nintendo Switches + Mario Kart 8 Download

3rd Place

Bose QC 35-2s + Fitbit Inspires

Best Beginner Hack

Glorious GMMK Keyboards

Best Innovative Hack

Logitech MX Master 2S Wireless Mouses

Best Hardware Hack

DJI Tello Drones + Extra Battery

Best UI/UX

Philips Hue White LED Smart Button Starter Kits + Echo Dot (3rd Gen)

Hacker Favorite

JBL Charge 3s

Company Challenges

American Airlines

1st Place — 50,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip international or two round trip within the US

2nd Place — 35,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip US, Canada or Mexico

3rd Place — 25,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip US

Thousands of people fly American each and every day. This awesome responsibility opens the door to incredible opportunities. Help us elevate the customer travel experience, boost operational efficiences and employee performance (baggage handling, gate agents, etc.), or enhance American's brand image with your innovative hacks!

USAA

Apple AirPod Pros

Build a solution that would help the Australian public or government with the current bush fires. Use any technology to provide the information needed to be safe.

Gartner

Gartner-branded Weekender Bundles

Challenging Chatbot Challenge

By 2020, 85% of our engagement with businesses will be done without interacting with another human. Instead, we'll be using self-service options and chatbots.

Our research concludes that the future of technology will yield advancements in automation where chatbots will be the norm for user engagement. We challenge any willing attendees to participate and have an active role in this ongoing evolution!

Objectives:

  • Develop/create a chatbot.
  • Be innovative. We aren't looking for any specific use case, so feel free to get as creative as you want!
  • Bonus points for conversational as well as functional.

State Farm

1st Place — Nintendo Switch Lite

2nd Place — Apple Airpods

3rd Place — Google Home Minis

Given the dataset, can you come up with an Application, Visualization, Machine Learning Model, or anything you may want to learn, to help State Farm to get more people to “Live Life Confidently”.

More details for the challenge can be found here. The full State Farm dataset can be accessed here.

Microsoft

XBOX/Backpacks

Best use of Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services API.

Pariveda Solutions

$50 Amazon Gift Cards

Hack that best helps serve the Bryan/College Station community

Contrary VC

One-on-one meeting with Contrary Capital founder Eric Tarczynski

Most business viable hack

All participants get a free year of Voiceflow Business!

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bose SoundLink Wireless Headphones

Information on Accessibility: Develop a web or mobile app that helps incentivize people – with and without disabilities – to provide more structured information on accessible spaces.

PwC

1st Place — Apple Airpods with Wireless Charging Case

Most Impact — Tello Drone Quadcopter Elite Combo

Breakout Session (Fly the Drone) — Tello Drone Quadcopter Elite Combo

We believe that technology, when used responsibly, can be a force for good. We challenge you to live out our purpose and hack for the future by developing a prototype that addresses one of these major societal challenges:

  1. Upskilling today’s workforce to give them the skills necessary to contribute in tomorrow’s digital economy
  2. Resource or income inequality
  3. Access to healthcare

CBRE

$50 Gift Cards

Best hack to build an efficient building with healthier indoor climates and user convenience

Southwest Airlines

Nintendo Switch Lites

1/5th of US adults have never traveled on a commercial airline, and only 1/3rd of US adults have flow in the past year. Create a product that makes the air travel experience easier for those who don’t travel often or at all.

Credera

Google Home Minis

Best mobile app (either native or a multi-platform framework)

Baker Hughes

Exclusive Lunch + Tour at Baker Hughes Headquarters & Super Swag Bags

Create an innovative solution to how you would take energy forward that supports one or more of our core values: Grow, Collaborate, Lead, and Care.

Wolfram

Wolfram | One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram | Alpha Pro to Top 40 Teams

Best hack using Wolfram | One.

For more information on how to compete in this challenge, click here.

Google Cloud

1st Place — Google Nest Mini, Cloud Patagonia Backpack, Cloud Pillow, Acrylic Trophy, and Cloud Water Bottle

2nd Place — Google Nest Mini

3rd Place — Google Home Mini

Best use of Google Cloud

Use any Google Cloud product in your project (Firebase counts!) to be eligible.

American Airlines

1st Place — 50,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip international or two round trip within the US

2nd Place — 35,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip US, Canada or Mexico

3rd Place — 25,000 AAdvantage miles, one round trip US

Thousands of people fly American each and every day. This awesome responsibility opens the door to incredible opportunities. Help us elevate the customer travel experience, boost operational efficiences and employee performance (baggage handling, gate agents, etc.), or enhance American's brand image with your innovative hacks!

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bose SoundLink Wireless Headphones

Information on Accessibility: Develop a web or mobile app that helps incentivize people – with and without disabilities – to provide more structured information on accessible spaces.

USAA

Apple AirPod Pros

Build a solution that would help the Australian public or government with the current bush fires. Use any technology to provide the information needed to be safe

PwC

1st Place — Apple Airpods with Wireless Charging Case

Most Impact — Tello Drone Quadcopter Elite Combo

Breakout Session (Fly the Drone) — Tello Drone Quadcopter Elite Combo

We believe that technology, when used responsibly, can be a force for good. We challenge you to live out our purpose and hack for the future by developing a prototype that addresses one of these major societal challenges:

  1. Upskilling today’s workforce to give them the skills necessary to contribute in tomorrow’s digital economy
  2. Resource or income inequality
  3. Access to healthcare

Gartner

Gartner-branded Weekender Bundles

Challenging Chatbot Challenge

By 2020, 85% of our engagement with businesses will be done without interacting with another human. Instead, we'll be using self-service options and chatbots.

Our research concludes that the future of technology will yield advancements in automation where chatbots will be the norm for user engagement. We challenge any willing attendees to participate and have an active role in this ongoing evolution!

Objectives:

  • Develop/create a chatbot.
  • Be innovative. We aren't looking for any specific use case, so feel free to get as creative as you want!
  • Bonus points for conversational as well as functional.

CBRE

$50 Gift Cards

Best Hack to build an efficient building with healthier indoor climates and user convenience

State Farm

1st Place - Nintendo Switch Lite

2nd Place - Apple Airpods

3rd Place - Google Home Minis

Given the dataset, can you come up with an Application, Visualization, Machine Learning Model, or anything you may want to learn, to help State Farm to get more people to “Live Life Confidently”.

More details for the challenge can be found here. The full State Farm dataset can be accessed here.

Southwest Airlines

Nintendo Switch Lites

1/5th of US adults have never traveled on a commercial airline, and only 1/3rd of US adults have flow in the past year. Create a product that makes the air travel experience easier for those who don’t travel often or at all.

Microsoft

XBOX/4 Rasberry Pis

API challenge

Credera

Google Home Minis

Best mobile app (either native or a multi-platform framework)

Pariveda Solutions

$50 Amazon Gift Cards

Hack that best helps serve the Bryan/College Station community

Baker Hughes

Exclusive Lunch + Tour at Baker Hughes Headquarters & Super Swag Bags

Create an innovative solution to how you would take energy forward that supports one or more of our core values: Grow, Collaborate, Lead, and Care.

Contrary VC

One-on-one meeting with Contrary Capital founder Eric Tarczynski

Most business viable hack

All participants get a free year of Voiceflow Business!

Wolfram

Wolfram | One Personal Edition plus a one-year subscription to Wolfram | Alpha Pro to Top 40 Teams

Best hack using Wolfram | One

For more information on how to compete in this challenge, click here.

Google Cloud

1st Place — Google Nest Mini, Cloud Patagonia Backpack, Cloud Pillow, Acrylic Trophy, and Cloud Water Bottle

2nd Place — Google Nest Mini

3rd Place — Google Home Mini

Best use of Google Cloud

Use any Google Cloud product in your project (Firebase counts!) to be eligible.

Frequently Asked Questions

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About TAMUhack

At TAMUhack, teams spend the weekend working on innovative software and hardware solutions to real-world problems in a community full of mentorship.

We'll provide you with all the resources and mentors you need to work on something cool. You'll have the freedom to create a product, learn new skills or just have fun working on a project with friends. We'll also provide all the free food and free swag—just be sure to bring plenty of resumes for all of the awesome sponsors and mentors you'll meet! Check them out below!

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