CivHacks

Join us today at the Wozniak Lounge, Soda for our workshops and closing ceremonies! All are welcome to join, even if you are not participating in our hackathon! Each workshop attended counts as one entry to win a $30 amazon gift card! We will be hosting workshops on Vim(by CSUA) and using Node and Express to create backend APIs(by Web Dev at Berkeley) as well as talks by Charron Andrus on navigating careers and Digital Privacy DeCal on the state of digital privacy today. Be sure to join us from 6-7 PM to hear from our special guest judge California State Controller Betty Yee! Be sure to enter through the terrace at the Wozniak Lounge!

REGISTRATION ENDS TONIGHT!! Register now at tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks. Register to be a mentor at tinyurl.com/civhacksmentor!

Register for CivHacks now at tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks! Go visit our official website at civhacks.com and our official notion page at tinyurl.com/civhacknotion!

Presenting our special guest judge, California State Controller Betty Yee! Register now at tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks for a chance to present YOUR idea to her!

Betty T. Yee was elected State Controller in November 2014, following two terms of service on the California Board of Equalization. As Controller, she continues to serve the Board as its fifth voting member. Ms. Yee chairs the Franchise Tax Board and serves on the boards for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and California State Teachers’
Retirement System (CalSTRS). These two pension funds have a combined portfolio of more than
$760 billion. Ms. Yee also serves on the Ceres Board of Directors, a nonprofit organization mobilizing many of the world’s largest investors to advance global sustainability and take stronger action on climate change.

As the state’s chief fiscal officer, Ms. Yee serves on dozens of boards and commissions with authority ranging from land management to crime victim compensation. As a member of the State Lands Commission, she helps provide stewardship of public-trust lands, waterways, industrial wharves, marine terminals, pipelines, and resources through economic development, protection, preservation, and restoration consistent with the state’s environmental needs.

Ms. Yee has 35 years of experience in public service, specializing in state and local finance and tax policy. A native of San Francisco, she holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in public administration.

Register now at tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks!

Register now at tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks to join us!

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Sign up at: tinyurl.com/civhacksmentor

CivHacks is committed to making this experience welcoming for everyone, including beginners! This is why we would like to invite you to apply to join us as a beginner mentor. As a mentor, you will be getting a team of up to 4 beginners and you will help guide them through the process while getting a chance to compete for our top prizes! Mentors will introduce themselves and present any project ideas they have during the opening ceremony. That being said, you are not required to have a project idea. You may come in open ended and work with your team to create an idea! Feel free to read our previous post for more info on CivHacks!

Register at https://tinyurl.com/fa21civhacks

Welcome to CivHacks! Over the span of 48 hours, CivHacks give you the opportunity to create new applications, websites or hardware projects. Our focus is on providing a welcoming, engaging and creative environment to support social good in tech culture. You will work either individually or in teams to help tackle civics and voter engagement at its intersection with technology. You may sign up with a team of up to 3 other people, as an individual, or indicate that you are interested in being placed in a team with someone else!

If you are new to hackathons or coding, our beginners track is the perfect place for you! As part of this track, you will be placed in a team and assigned a mentor who already has experience with hackathons and who will be able to guide you and your team through the process! Mentors will introduce themselves and present any ideas they have during the opening ceremony. You will be able to indicate your preferred mentor from there and we will do our best to place you in their group!

The top two winners from our regular and beginner tracks will receive the opportunity to present their final product to our special guest judge! They will provide you and your team with the guidance you need to take the project you have created and actually implement it into real life! We are so excited to see all the amazing projects you guys come up with!

CivHacks has officially begun! We are super excited for y'all to attend! Remember to attend our welcome ceremony at 3:30 PM PST as it is mandatory for those wanting to submit a project and enter in the raffle. Once again here is the link to the schedule with the zoom links: https://www.notion.so/berkeleycal/CivHacks-Schedule-w-Zoom-Links-ec178e98a1964465bbba9f7dc0163b3a
Also, join our Discord at https://discord.gg/Zb4FPZrs

We’ve updated our prizes!! We officially announce our planned raffles prizes as well as increases to our track prizes!
Attendees are not required to submit a project to be eligible for the raffle!
Registration for CivHacks closes this THURSDAY, so make sure to grab a spot if you haven’t already!✨