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Science Hack Day SF Schedule
Details:
• Bring your hacking tools of choice: laptop, toolbox, arduinos, science kits, your imagination (lab coats optional)
• We'll supply: power, wireless network, hacking space, meals, snacks, stimulation (of the intellectual kind)
• Science Hack Day goes all night, so you have the option of spending Saturday night inside the venue. Your 3 convenient overnight options are (1) bring your own sleeping bag, (2) organize a place to crash with nearby attendees, (3) treat yourself to 1 night in a nearby hotel
Saturday, November 13:
Morning:
- 9:30-10:30am: arrive, sign-in and have breakfast (if taking the Caltrain from SF, there's a 9:15am departure that gets into Palo Alto at 10:17am for perfect timing)
- 10:30am: Intro Talk
- 10:40am: 60 sec introductions of speakers who will be giving brief presentations of ideas/raw stuff to hack on in a separate room
- 10:50am: Talk: The Intersection of Science + Design by Maria Giudice of Hot Studio
- 11am: Participant Intros: Introduce yourself in three tags!
- 11:30am: Hacking begins!
- 11:30am-12:30pm: 1 hour of brief presentations (10-15 min each) of ideas/raw stuff to hack on
- Room Andromeda: Talks on Particle Physics, Geoloqi, and GalaxyZoo
- Room M83: Talks from NASA, Open PCR, and Yahoo.
- Room Omega Centauri: Open Forum (TBD)
Afternoon:
Evening:
Late Night:
- Attendee "Sync" - optional 2 min. talks about progress so far
- Spend the night at the venue (optional)
Sunday, November 14:
Morning:
Afternoon + Early Evening:
- Lunch at 12:30pm
- 1:37pm: Hacking stops
- 1:37-2pm: Everyone has until 3pm to upload whatever they need to demo their hack/rehearse their presentation
- 2pm: demos + afterparty: beers opened, teams give 120-second show-and-tell of their hack, peer voting conducted, judges meet in private for 10 min. to decide winner for each category
- 4pm: Announcement of winners for each category
Evening:
- Feel free to go to a nearby bar for an after-after party!
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