Joe Gutierrez Office of Strategic Communication (909) 537-5007 joeg@csusb.edu
Written by Olabode Lawal/CSUSB Office of Strategic Communication The Computer Science and Engineering Club at Cal State San Bernardino will host its first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Hackathon this weekend. The event will be held at the John M. Pfau Library Wedge (The Cave) on campus on Saturday, March 2, starting at 6 p.m. and ending Sunday, March 3, at noon. The event will be a competition between teams of three to five people who will be given 15 hours to hack enough code to demonstrate the next morning. The efforts of each team will be judged and prizes may be given as well. The hackathon is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Foothill Section, Google, CSUSB Associated Students Inc. (ASI), the university’s Computer Science and Engineering Club (CSE), as well as Information Technology Services (ITS). The event is open to everyone and there is a $5 admission fee per participant, who are required to bring their own computers. For disability accommodations, please contact the Computer Science and Engineering Club at events.cse.csusb@gmail.com. For more information, contact Arusyak Hovhannesyan at president.cse.csusb@gmail.com or Sagar Patel CSE Club Vice President at vicepresident.cse.csusb@gmail.com.