Hack TX

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Welcome to the biggest Hack-A-Thon in Texas, organized by students at Ut Austin. The event is open to all developers and creatives in Austin, students or not.
*****PRIZES Announced 1st place - 5 Nexus 7's 2nd place - 5 23 inch monitors 3rd place - 5 Apple Tv's (Teams don't have to be 5 people)
There will be other prizes from Tes (iPad & Beats by Dre headphones) and Hacker Lounge (iPad & Beat by Dre headphones), and VmWare will be… Show more doing a raffle as well! Judges Announced  Bob Metcalfe Ross Bhurdorf (Cto of HomeAway) VP of Product from Indeed
Bill Boebel (Capital Factory)  ******
A hackathon is a 24 hour coding marathon where an indivual or team tries to create a cool software project. It could be a web application, a mobile application, a game, an algorithm, or anything cool you can come up with.
Come with a team or find one at the event. You can also just work alone.  There will be a bunch of awesome prizes, food, and caffeine provided by our great sponsors (Indeed, VMWare, Twilio, Return Path, Alsop Louie, RouteScout, Palantir, Capital Factory, and HomeAway). October 19-20 3 PM - 4 PM - Participants arrive, informal team forming 4 PM - 4:15 PM - Intro presentation 4:15 PM - 4:45PM - Company Api Presentations (Indeed, Twilio, Return Path) 4:45 PM - 5:30PM - More team forming, idea generation, and mentor pairing 5:30 PM - Start Hacking 7:00 PM - Dinner 11:30 PM - Midnight meal 6:30 Am - Breakfast 12:00 PM - Lunch 1:00PM - Hack Submission Deadline 1:30PM - 2:30PM - presentations, judging, prizes given out 3:00PM - Hackathon Over Organized by Hacker Lounge ( www.hackUT.com ) and Tes ( http://studentorgs.engr.utexas.edu/tes/ )

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