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Hackprinceton Attracts Close to 500 Hackers
Nearly 500 individuals participated in this year's HackPrinceton 24-hour software and hardware competition.
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This year's HackPrinceton event, a semiannual hackathon run by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, had nearly 500 participants for a 24-hour software and hardware competition.
The club awarded three prizes in each of the software and hardware categories. In the hardware category, awards were given to a remote-controlled car controlled by the movement of fish in a mounted tank, and to a mousetrap that could capture a specific type of mouse.
HackPrinceton also featured workshops and speakers, including Google's Eric Schmidt.
HackPrinceton is unique among hackathons because of its mentorship program, according to event co-director Raeva Kumar. "It really comes down to this passion for just building something--just being able to create some project...that you find interesting, something that you'll learn from or something that'll hopefully make an impact," says co-director Jerry Liu. He says HackPrinceton can serve as an opportunity to correct problems that exist in the technology industry because the small scale of the hackathon allows for experimentation.
In the future, HackPrinceton wants to engage more students and bring in people from different backgrounds, such as women and minorities. "We think that learning theory is very important and what we do in the classroom is invaluable, but in order to supplement that, we think that the work that is done here at HackPrinceton is essential," Kumar says.
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