What's this about?
Who's gonna be there?
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Mike Giglia
Mike Giglia is an Adjunct Instructor and an EE/ME Lab Tech here at Cooper! He will be one of our workshop hosts as well as a judge for CooperHacks this year. His workshop topic is slated to be an intro to Systems Thinking (DSRP) for engineers.
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Chris Curro
Chris Curro is the Principal Machine Learning Engineer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc, as well as an Adjunct Professor here at the Cooper Union! He will be one of our workshop hosts as well as a judge for CooperHacks this year, and according to him:
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We'll code up some kind of web application in Python using FastAPI
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It'll be connected to a Redis instance I stand up, perhaps with a Bloom Filter, because those are just kind of neat.
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I'll expose it to the public internet with ngrok, and have students hit the API live from their machine
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Subhalekha Udayasankar
Subhalekha Udayasankar is an Adjunct Instructor here at the Cooper Union, and she will be a judge for CooperHacks this year, bringing with her an interest for human-centered design and an extensive consulting history.
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Stay Tuned! More to come...
Frequently asked questions
A hackathon is an event where people of all years (and skill levels) gather to work on building something new.
If you’re a college student in the U.S, yes! You do not have to be a Cooper student! (We don't cover travel expenses.)
It’s free to enter!
No, but it’s highly encouraged: you’ll get valuable feedback from our judges.
We’ve got a bunch of crazy cool prizes, for people of all skill levels
That’s okay! We’ll be hosting workshops so you can learn some programming techniques, and you’ll be paired up with people of all skill levels!
Your team will be judged as a group: prizes will be given to all of you!
Your team will be judged as a group: prizes will be given to all of you!
No, this is an in-person event.
Yes!
No, however, the event does not run overnight, and the competition only runs for one day.
At the Cooper Union New Academic Building (NAB), located at 41 Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan.
Yes: reach out to us at cooperhacks@cooper.edu
Email us at cooperhacks@cooper.edu, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!