9/10/2009
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Join Yahoo! web experts for a week of learning, hacking and fun! You’ll hear interesting tech talks, hacking tips and lessons, and get hands-on coding workshops where you’ll work with cutting-edge technology.
The week’s events will culminate with Yahoo!'s University Hack Day competition - a day-long festival of coding, camaraderie, demos, awards, food, music and jollity (it’s a real word, look it up). It’s not about perfect code, just your creativity, a cool idea and a working prototype. You’ll have access to tons of APIs and tools in the Yahoo! Developer Network (check out Pipes, the YUI Library, SearchMonkey and BOSS just to name a few).
No rules or limitations - just show up and hack for your opportunity to win cool prizes, a spot in the gallery, street cred and the chance to represent your school at the University Hack Showdown in California. This is your shot to develop something that will revolutionize the industry, make the world a better place or at least make the judges laugh (trust us, that goes a long way!). See you there!
Get Involved!
Come by the kickoff event on Monday, September 14th in 2405 Siebel to learn more about the competition and get the pertinent details. Remember there are no limitations and you can use all open technology to build your app although we must admit that some of the judges have a soft spot for Yahoo stuff. Oh and of course you own the IP to anything you create so this is your shot to build that killer app that may just be the next big thing. Go for it.
2009 Special Hack Categories:
Open Search Technology (SearchMonkey and BOSS) - Win a $100 Visa gift card!
Hack for Good (Yahoo For Good)
Overall best hack
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEIBEL CENTER 2405.
Monday, September 14th - Hack U Kickoff Event
6:00pm - Dinner, Hack Examples, API run and more
Tuesday, September 15th - Web programming and the Semantic Web (yes, that crazy Searchmonkey will be back!)
6:00pm - Dinner and Interactive Tech Talk
Wednesday, September 16th - YQL/YUI Open Tech Night featuring Flickr, Fireeagle and GEO
6:00pm - Dinner & Interactive Tech Talk
Thursday, September 17th - 24 Hour Hack session begins!
6:00pm Dinner is served and the games begin!
Hack through the night - plenty of caffeine, snacks, video games, Y! tech support, etc provided!
Friday, September 18th - Demos, Awards, Celebration
8:00am - Breakfast
12:00pm - Lunch
6:00pm - Hack Day ends and all submissions are due
6:15pm - Demos, Judging, Awards follow immediately
Remote support will be provided at irc.freenode.net/hacku (web irc at mibbit)
You can hack remotely, but must be present at the demos to win.
For more information, visit http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/uiuc.html.