The coolest slumber party you've ever been to.
Welcome to the ninth biannual HackRU, hosted at Rutgers University by USACS, the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists!
Schedule can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/hackruf15sched.
Rooms:
- Main Lounge and Multipurpose Room - Floor 2 - Main hacking area, ceremonies, food
- Red Lion Cafe - Floor G2 - Tech Talks, additional hacking space
- Room 411AB - Floor 4 - Additional hacking space
- Room 411C - Floor 4 - Reserved for sleeping
- Lion's Lounge - Floor G2 - Reserved for sleeping
Tech Talks:
- 2:00PM - Type- and Resource-safe C++ (without overheads) with Bjarne Stroustrup of Morgan Stanley
- 2:50PM - An introduction to building webapps, geared towards first-time hackers with Eddie Zaneski of Twilio
- 3:30PM - Accelerate your hack with Firebase - Real-time App in 5-minutes with Ray Tsang of Google
- 4:00PM - AT&T Dev Program and APIs Lightning - Chief Technology Disruptor, Spondon Dey, of AT&T
- 4:10PM - Hack on Google Cloud Platform - Infinite Possibilities with Ray Tsang of Google
- 4:50PM - Hacking NES Games with Sam Agnew of Twilio
Check out the Morgan Stanley challenge here: http://tinyurl.com/morganstanleychallenge
Remember to check the Slack at http://hackruix.slack.com for updates!
If you are not in the Slack, please notify an organizer or volunteer and fill out this form: http://tinyurl.com/hackruslack
Check out the New Brunswick Office of Innovation here: http://innovatenb.org
Prizes
$4,792 in prizes
First Place
$1,024 and Dell Venue 10 tablets courtesy of MLH and Dell.
Second Place
$512
Third Place
$256
Best Rutgers Hack
Funniest Hack
Best Hardware Hack
Best First Hackathon Project
Best Solo Hack
Best Morgan Stanley Challenge Hack - Morgan Stanley
-Overnight trip to NYC and visit to Morgan Stanley
-Choice between upcoming Oculus Rift consumer version and PrintBot 3D printer
Best Designed Using Behance API - Behance
1 Year Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription
Best Financial Hack - Prudential Financial
$100 Amazon Gift Cards
Best Health Hack - Merck (2)
-1st Place: iPad Mini 4
-Runner Ups: Skullcandy Hesh 2 Headphones
Best Use of MongoDB - MongoDB
$50 Amazon Gift Card + chance for a free trip to MongoDB World 2016
Best Use of Twilio - Twilio
Wearable Sleeping Bags
Best Use of SendGrid APIs - SendGrid (2)
BB8 Spheros
Linode: Best Use of Linode Services (2)
Raspberry Pi 2s
Best Use of Bloomberg Data - Bloomberg
Parrot Mini Drones
Best Use of Amazon Web Services - MLH/Amazon Web Services
1TB Hard Drives
Best Use of Domain.com - MLH/Domain.com
Domain.com Swag Bag
Best Pebble Hack - MLH/Pebble
Pebble Steels
Best Command Line Hack
New Brunswick Office of Innovation Challenge
Best use of Google APIs
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Eligibility
Students who have registered for HackRU and checked-in to the event are eligible to participate. As per MLH regulations, all hackers must currently be a student or have graduated within the last school year.
All projects MUST be submitted to DevPost by 11:30AM on Sunday, October 4th.
Participants MUST print and sign this waiver to be allowed entry. Anyone under 18 MUST have their waiver signed by a PARENT or GUARDIAN.
Judges

Will be Announced!
Judging Criteria
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Will be Announced