SD Hacks 2019 Logistics Guide 
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We hope you're excited for SD Hacks 2019! This document contains important information about the event. Mark your calendars for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (October 25-27)!

##  Important Links
**The official Slack**: sdhacks2019.slack.com - very important to join as much of the information will be conveyed through here! Join the official SD Hacks 2019 Slack using [this invite link](https://join.slack.com/t/sdhacks2019/shared_invite/enQtODAyNTMxNDI1MTQxLThhNWRiNjAwYzgxMmU1YTI4YWNiZWUzZjIzNjM2MGE5MmQwNjRjNThlZjg5MzE3MDVkNjhhYzUzYTNlMDBkZGY).
**Devpost:** https://sd-hacks-2019.devpost.com/ you'll be submitting your project here. *[More details will be added during the event]*
**The live website:** http://sdhacks.io/live centralized hub that includes links to all the above and also announcements. *[Link will be accessible during the event]*

##  Location and Parking
### Parking


If you are **driving** to the event, you may park at:

*Hopkins Parking Structure - Voigt Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093* | [Google Maps link](https://goo.gl/maps/9QKthdWriWGhcV5z9).

Company sponsors please refer to the company packet we sent out to our main contacts. Permits are $3/hr on Friday evening up to 11pm. After 11pm on Friday, parking at any “A”, “B”, “S”, or “V” labeled spot on the UCSD campus is **free on the weekends.** Once you have parked your vehicle, please proceed to the 7th floor of the parking structure. There will be volunteers and signage that will direct you to the venue.

If you are **carpooling** to the event, please set your destination in the rideshare app to the following:

*RIMAC Arena - 9730 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093* | [Google Maps link](https://goo.gl/maps/dvEuvA6FX2Hz2PGv9)

There will be volunteers and signage that will direct you to the venue.

### Venue
SD Hacks will take place at UC San Diego's ++*RIMAC Arena - 9730 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093*++. You can find the location of the building on Google Maps [at this link](https://goo.gl/maps/dvEuvA6FX2Hz2PGv9).


##  What To Bring
- [ ] Phone or device with access to ++your confirmation email and QR code++ (required for check-in)
- [ ] A laptop and any accessories you might need
- [ ] Chargers for any devices you bring
- [ ] Pre-downloaded software (e.g. Android Studio, XCode) (see below for starter packs), so you don't have to wait on the wifi
- [ ] Toiletries (mouthwash, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.)
- [ ] A change of clothes for 36 hours
- [ ] Things you might need for sleeping (pillow, sleeping bag, blanket, etc.)
- [ ] **Medications if needed**
- [ ] Your student ID or some other form of identification (e.g. passport, driver's license, etc.)

##  Check-In (Day of Event)
You should receive a confirmation email with a QR code. You will need to bring a device with access to the confirmation email and your QR code in order to be checked in. At this point, you will be given a nametag and wristband.

Once you have checked in, you will be able to enter and exit the venue freely as long as you have your nametag and wristband on you.

##  Slack
Join the official SD Hacks 2019 Slack using [this invite link](https://join.slack.com/t/sdhacks2019/shared_invite/enQtODAyNTMxNDI1MTQxLThhNWRiNjAwYzgxMmU1YTI4YWNiZWUzZjIzNjM2MGE5MmQwNjRjNThlZjg5MzE3MDVkNjhhYzUzYTNlMDBkZGY). Keep an eye on the ++#announcements++ channel throughout the event.

*Use this template to request help from mentors on the* ++#mentor++ *channel!*
• **Topic:** Brief description of what you need help, including details on the technology / language you're using.
• **Location:** Which room / table is your team at?
• Mark your post with a :mentor_red: emoji to indicate that your issue has not been solved yet.

For mentors: specific emojis will be used to keep track of the status of the request:
•  :mentor_green: - Issue is solved; help is no longer needed.
•  :mentor_yellow: - Help is in progress; a mentor is currently at the table.
•  :mentor_red: - Issue is not solved; a mentor is needed at this table.
*note: Follow up conversation goes in a thread (hover over a message and start a thread by clicking the text bubble; second from the left)*

##  Internet
For UCSD students, please connect to ```UCSD-PROTECTED```.

For students outside of UCSD, please connect to ```UCSD-GUEST```. Please confirm that you accept the Terms Of Use when it redirects you to a page.

##  Schedule
The live schedule will be up by the day of the event with more detailed information about what's happening at the hackathon. Until then, you can take a look at the tentative schedule below.

### Friday, October 25th
++4:30 PM++: Check in, General Mixer, Dinner, and Interact with our sponsors!
++6:45 PM - 7:15 PM++: Walk to Mandeville Auditorium
++7:30 PM - 8:45 PM++: Opening Ceremony
++9:15 PM++: Walk back to RIMAC Arena, Hacking begins!
++9:15 PM - 1:30 AM++: Technical Workshops from AWS, ACM, CSES, DS3, TritonXR, IEEE, and TSE

### Saturday, October 26th
++12:30 AM - 1:00 AM++: Midnight snack
++1:30 AM - 2:30 AM++: Stargazing at Marshall Fields
++4:30 AM - 5:00 AM++: Light snacks
++7:00 AM - 8:30 AM++: Breakfast
++9:00 AM - 12:00 PM++: Tech Talks from some of our sponsors (NIWC, Northrop Grumman, Activbody)
++12:00 PM - 1:00 PM++: Lunch
++4:00 PM - 4:30 PM++: Light snacks
++5:00 PM - 8:00 PM++: Technical Workshops / Talks from BMES and SWE
++6:30 PM - 8:30 PM++: Dinner
++10:00 PM - 10:30 PM++: Typing Contest against your SD Hacks 2019 Director, Jimmy!

### Sunday, October 27th
++12:30 AM - 1:00 AM++: Midnight snack
++7:00 AM - 8:30 AM++: Breakfast
++9:00 AM++: **Devpost Submission Deadline**
++10:00 AM++: Hacking Officially Ends
++10:30 AM - 1:30 PM++: Lunch
++11:00 AM - 1:00 PM++: Judging Period
++1:00 PM++: Walk to Beyster Auditorium (in Rady School of Management)
++1:30 PM - 3:00 PM++: Finalist Demos & Presentations
++3:30 PM++: Winners announced
++4:00 PM++: Event ends

##  Challenges and Prize Categories
Check out our devpost for all challenges and prize categories! https://sd-hacks-2019.devpost.com/

You can see them here as well.

**1st place:**
- Apple iPad 32GB Wi-Fi (x2)
- Bose SoundLink wireless headphones (x2)

**2nd place:**
- Echo Show 10", Echo Dot Charcoal, and Phillips Hue Lightbulb bundle (x1)
- TCL 32" Class HD (720P) Roku Smart LED TV (x1)
- Amazon Kindle (x2)

**3rd place:**
- HP Sprocket 2-in-1 Portable Photo Printer & Instant Camera (x1)
- Echo Show 5", Echo Dot Charcoal, and Phillips Hue Lightbulb bundle (x1)
- SNAPTAIN A15 Foldable FPV WiFi Drone (x1)

**Best beginner hack:**
- Echo Dot and Phillips Hue smart bulb (x2)
- Raspberry Pi 4 (x2)

**Health and Well-being Track:**
- Smart jump rope (x2)
- Neck massager (x2)

**Sustainability Track:**
- Wireless charging pad (x2)
- Amazon Smart Plug (x2)
- 4-pack Smart Light Bulbs (x1)

**Education Track:**
- Amazon Fire Tablets (x2)
- 3D Printing Pen (x2)

**Northrop Grumman**
- Model Based Engineering and the IoT!

- Ever have an idea for an internet of things application that you know would make life so much easier? You and a small team is responsible for modeling, and implementing an IoT that incorporates multiple nodes, such as Arduino based sensors. These nodes should communicate with a central monitor node or with each other, and can be controlled by an application on the central node. Be creative and take advantage of the hardware and tools provided.

- Prize: Amazon gift cards (1st - $400, 2nd - $200, 3rd - $100)

**Activbody**
- At Activbody, we believe everyone has the potential to improve their physical health and overall well-being. ActivBody is dedicated to revolutionizing the way we think about strength, health & rehabilitation.

- Our flagship device, the Activ5, is a connected, handheld strength-training device. You can modify the baseline force to personalize over 100 exercises to your strength. Our current app allows you to track your strength increase over time.

- We have a lot of new features and functionality in store for the existing app, but we want to see what awesome ideas you can come up with in the next 48 hours.

- Our device SDK will enable you to connect to an Activ5 device via bluetooth. The current API SDK will support login, authorization, capturing and retrieving user data as well as exercise data.

- SDKS
- Device SDK (iOS): https://github.com/ActivBody/activ5-ble-ios
- Device SDK (Android): https://github.com/ActivBody/activ5-ble-sample-android
- API SDK (iOS server API): https://github.com/ActivBody/activ-sync

- Server API docs: https://sdhacks.activ5.com/api-docs/
- username: sdhacks
- password: sandiego

- Prize: $1000 + Activ5 devices for each member of the team

**AWS**
- Challenge: We are looking for the best use of our AWS AI / ML services in your project:
- [Amazon Comprehend](https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/): Discover insights and relationships in text.
- [Amazon Lex](https://aws.amazon.com/lex/): Build voice and text chatbots.
- [Amazon Personalize](https://aws.amazon.com/personalize/): Build real-time recommendations into your applications.
- [Amazon Polly](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/): Turn text into lifelike speech.
- [Amazon Rekognition](https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/): Analyze image and video.
- [Amazon Textract](https://aws.amazon.com/textract/): Extract text and data from documents.
- [Amazon Translate](https://aws.amazon.com/translate/): Translate texts with higher accuracy.
- [Amazon Transcribe](https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/): Automatic speech recognition.

- Some useful links
- https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/ai-services/
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/aiml-demo-site/index.html
- https://syum.github.io/aws-hackathon-guide/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/commoncrawl/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/multimedia-commons/

- Use any of the above AWS AI/ML service to qualify for the AWS challenge. Check out the AWS Machine Learning Demo Portal for demos and workshops and our AWS Hackathon Guide for a list of resources to get started with AWS.
- For additional inspiration, look through publicly available datasets at Registry of Open Data on AWS, such as Amazon Customer Reviews, Web Crawl Data of over 25 billion web pages, and the Multimedia Commons collection of images and videos.
- Prize: Mechanical keyboards and Echo devices

**MLH**
- Best UiPath Automation Hack - Skip the internship line with UiPath and a UiPath/MLH Branded Backpack

- Best Domain Registered with Domain.com - Domain.com Backpack

- Best use of Google Cloud - Google Home Minis

- Best use of MongoDB Atlas - Branded MongoDB AirCharge Plus

##  Workshops and Tech Talks
Workshop and Tech Talk Topics

**Sponsors**
- NIWC
- Title: **Air to Underwater Communications**
- Presenters: Rohan and Sunil Ramlall

- Northrop Grumman
- Title: **Introduction to Model Based Systems Engineering**
- The Northrop Grumman Challenge is centered on employing Model Based Systems Engineering to understand architectural trade-offs and analysis of your project. The workshop will provide an overview of some basic architectural concepts and framework(s) that can be used to evaluate your architecture. The workshop includes an applied example of how these concepts when leveraged contribute to a successful product.

- Activbody
- Title: **Hacking Smart Devices**
- Presenters: Bruno Andrade and Martin Kuvandzhiev

- AWS
- Title: **The Amazon ML Stack**
- Presenter: John Lee

**Student Partners**
- Triton Software Engineering (TSE)
- Come out to Triton Software Engineering’s **workshop on DevOps**; we’ll be covering real world industry practices like iterative software development with the Agile framework, CI/CD pipelines, properly using branching and pull requests with Git and GitHub, Docker containers, how to get your application online using Heroku, and more!

- Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- **Pitch your Design with SWE!** We will have a short presentation to give you all a background on the design process, followed by some tips on how to pitch a product! We will give you time to think about what you want to include in your pitch. Afterwards, we will have time for you to practice pitching (aka demo) your ideas to the group and get feedback from potential users!

- Data Science Student Society (DS3)
- **Machine Learning in Data Science**: including such concepts as data cleaning, data visualization, and machine learning models applications. “DS3 will be presenting a step by step workshop on how to work with your data in order to derive insights, starting from getting a dataset, to cleaning/analyzing it, to ultimately retrieving useful information from models.”

- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- **Interested in IoT** and want to implement both software and hardware into your project? Come learn how to connect your project to the Internet with a NodeMCU!

- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- **Social Innovation and How to Build a Business**: Teams will learn about the social innovation industry, as well as how to break into the industry by discussing the techniques for building effective startups

- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- **Want to make a web app** and have no idea where to start? We'll be teaching Javascript, which you'll not only use to enhance your web page, but also use with Node.js to write server code. You'll learn basic syntax, how to use npm, and how to use Express to add routes!

- Triton XR
- **Intro to Unity Workshop**: Interested in game development, VR/AR, or just 3D projects? Then Unity is the platform for you! During this 1 hour workshop we will cover the fundamentals of Unity and do a quick demo showing how fast it is to make a quick game! If you'd like to follow along (optional) be sure to bring a laptop with Unity already installed!
- **VR Fundamentals Workshop and Project Pitch**: Want to develop using the VR booths during SD Hacks? Then come to our VR Fundamentals Workshop! We will cover the basics of good VR design, followed by a round of pitching to determine which teams get to use the VR booths during the event, no experience required! This year we will have 4 Oculus Quest booths, and 2 HTC Vive booths!

- Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSES)
- **Intro to Deep Learning**: In this deep learning workshop, we will be working on the Hello World of deep learning, by classifying a dataset of 70k handwritten digits and building an image recognizer to classify those digits. We’ll be going through the basics of deep learning, data processing and loading, architecture tradeoffs, optimizations and further considerations.

##  Software
To assist you in getting started, we have compiled a list of [starter packs](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ql2CqIw4xsxrZ7kVtR_qGFHy0b1QpJ-f/view?usp=sharing) that you might find helpful for your project. It contains resources provided by [MLH](https://hack.mlh.io/learn/) and our friends at [TreeHacks](http://treehacks.com).

MLH has also partnered with companies like Google Cloud Platform and Twilio to provide free credits for their services. You can view the full list [here](https://hack.mlh.io/software/). Additionally, one of our sponsors, Amazon Web Services, will be providing computing credits for their challenge.

##  Hardware
SD Hacks is partnering with Major League Hacking (MLH) this year. MLH has a boatload of hardware you can borrow, including VR equipment. Check out what's available in the MLH hardware lab here https://hardware.mlh.io/.

You can also drop by the Maker Space or IEEE's booth to obtain hardware equipment as well.

##  Collect Raffle Tickets!
We have a lot of cool technical workshops and tech talks happening during the hackathon and we want to encourage you to attend! For each technical workshop or tech talk that you attend, you will obtain 1 raffle ticket. If you reach 3 raffle tickets, the first 300 people can redeem their tickets for a prize.

##  Travel Reimbursements
Make sure to apply for travel reimbursements on [this typeform](https://tesc.typeform.com/to/Q7DEh1)! After you submit your project to Devpost and get judged, please go to the help desk to provide receipts. Keep in mind that it is *required* to submit a project on Devpost and get judged to get travel reimbursement.

##  Emergency Contacts
UCSD Police: ++(858)-534-4357++
CSO Escort: ++(858)-534-9255++
Emergency: ++911++