SB Hacks organized by CS students a great success

February 5, 2015

By Rich Kildare

Over the Jan. 30-Feb. 1 weekend, over 500 participants gathered at UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion and surrounding areas to compete for prizes in the SB Hacks challenge. During this first iteration of SB Hacks, the annual event attracted students from all over California. Teams worked the entire weekend to create impressive solutions for a variety of problems. Here are the winning teams:

Citrix Grand Prize: Eco Node Hardware Hack Challenge: Leap Motion Controlled-Prosthetic Arm Environmental Hack Challenge: Change Map Beginners Hack Challenge: Faceboxx Popular Choice Prize: Freeloader Citrix API Challenge: Housemate Cisco API Challenge: 1st: Virus 2nd: Where’s Waldo!... with a Twist OpenGov Data: Modern Storytime FLIR One: Dance FLIR Heywatch: Rootroot Mindbody: Comix Nexus ShipHawk: Ship it or Buy it Makeschool: EventHype

Learn more about this event and the winning submissions by checking out the SBHacks website.

The following photos of the event are photos courtesy of Major League Hacking powered by Dell & Intel, photographer Andrew Burgher.

See more photos of the event here.