Juniors Win Second Place at Hack SoCal Competition
Juniors Win Second Place at Hack SoCal Competition
Juniors Jackie Ni, Tim Guo and Darcy Chung won second place at Hack SoCal in February.
Hack SoCal was founded as one of Southern California’s first student-run, co-ed high school hackathons. The event lasts 24 hours, overnight as attendees work to build a software project that addresses a real-world problem.
The Sage Hill students’ project was called saddle-point, and is described as “an online platform that organizes clubs and allows members to communicate with and donate to their activities.”
“An issue we saw is that clubs can’t easily get funding. [In saddle-point,] everything is transparent, the funding is public, and you can see everything that’s used with the money,” Ni said.
Club members can fund things directly through the app, or make a request for use of funds, Ni added. In its current stage, the app uses a cryptocurrency, but if the group continues their work, the platform will use actual U.S. dollars.
The trio is now planning to attend a Hackathon at UCLA over spring break. They will have to come up a different project idea for that competition.
“We can’t start any actual code yet, but we can draw everything out and think of the idea now,” Ni said.
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