2:00 a.m. you sleep after that. i took a nap for 30 minutes this afternoon. you only slept 30 minutes. come on. i slept in the stair well. oh, my got. it was fine. i generally don t sleep during hack-a-thons. if you are not getting through a certain problem, you will feel more pressure and like the world is closing in. these kids have been staring at security screens for 24-hours and they are starting to develop interesting projects. you just came up with this idea here? yeah. seriously? i m blown away and i can t believe at all hours of the day and night these kit kids are working. when you are in a room and
you see people building stuff, of course you can do it. the 22-year-old is one of the founders of the student hack-a-thon movement. when did this culture evolve? about 3.5 years ago, i heard about it and there was about 50 people and it was awesome. we felt the need to start our. people would come to the big hack-a-thons and say we need to throw this. it has gotten much more popular. you have 10,000 kids applying for cal hacks. it is helping to address the gender gap. when i started to go to hack-a-thons, i was in the minority. park are how does it feel to be one. few women. kind of confused on why you are there and they are a little insensitive. have you noticed more and
we will have snacks in 25 minutes. milk tea with boba. now it s the hack-a-thon at uc berkeley. the communication with the website. that are can access from java script. james and his team are making headway with their app that allow people to use their phones to vote in political elections. it s 11:30 p.m. saturday night. we are trying to get authentication. they don t submit multiple votes on multiple phones. the horrors are being awake for third hours straight. the hast time i was here was
about? he loved the app. things are looking up for the guys. they will find out for sure if any of the investors will back their company. where do you think you will be six months from now? in an actual office with employees and moving to new york city. big city, exciting, lots of finance. we will have a place to live and hopefully bigger than where we are staying now. separate rooms. at the hack-a-thon in berkeley, the goals are more short-term. only 4568 of the teams made it to the finish line and james s team is one of them. now the most difficult challenge yet. what are you looking for? creativity and completeness of vision and implementation.
is providing aid, but is it more useful than a college education? why not major in computer science at mit? they think there is a skills gap with software emergencies and what they need to know how to do. they focus on theory without giving the practical skills they need to build real projects. the trend you can watch is the collegieate hack-a-thon where you have 1,000 students giving up weekend and sleep and it feels broken for them to do this on the weekend. here s two years of a hack-a-thon. build cool things. at uc berkeley, the sun is rising on the hack-a-thon weekend warriors.