EECS Students Engineer the 2018 Hackathon- Hack-KU

The EECS ACM student branch coordinated the 2018 Hack-KU hackathon in April 2018. Computer Science students Mason Wilde and Taylor Walenczyk led the event. About 60 participants came from KU, K-State and Johnson County Community College. They developed code related to environmental issues over a 24-hour period in Engineering Complex. The event attracted nine industry sponsors, including CBoe (formally Bats Global Markets), one of the world’s largest exchange holding company with a significant presence in Kansas City, as well as Kansas City based Multi Service Technology Solutions (MSTS). To learn more about the event see the video produced by EECS student Justin Roderman, the ACM events co-coordinator. The group is looking forward to its next hackathon-2019 Hack-KU.