𝜋 𝜋 Pi Day Hackathon! 𝜋 𝜋

Update

• Please bring your own laptops or devices to code on.

• If you are in need of a Raspberry Pi to code, let us know ahead of time before noon on Friday. Email krickert {at} hugeinc.com for requests.

• There will be a panel of judges that will decide the winners of the hackathon. We will have the top prizes get a pie and a raspberry pi. Runner ups will get just the raspberry pi. In other words, we have more raspberry pis than pies :)

• The number of prizes we give away are dependent on the number of contestants.

• We are also doing a contest as to who can recite the most digits of pi

• We will be pairing up some teams together. Some students will attend and we will see if they would like to join teams to sit in, watch, and experience some coding.

3/14/2015 is the only 𝜋 day we will see.

So let's celebrate -- and code.

Coding will begin around noon and optimally be handed in at 3:14:15.92 (𝜋 o'clock). We'll have raspberry pis and gift certificates to purchase Four and Twenty Blackbirds pies (the best pies in Brooklyn, in our humble opinion).

So what exactly do you do for a 𝜋 Hackathon?

You to tell us.

There's only one rule: make it 𝜋-related.

Here are the rational rules behind everyone's favorite irrational number:

• You will have 3 hours and 14 minutes to code.

• Regarding what you make, the only rule is that your code must have something to do with 𝜋 (the vernacular 𝜋, so code doing something with a pie is another option)

• You will have 3 minutes and 14 seconds to do your presentation (𝜋 minutes)

• Hack groups can be no larger than 5 but we encourage about 𝜋.

What the hell does it mean to make a 𝜋-related application?

Here are some ideas if you can't think of one:

• An algorithm that calculates the digits of 𝜋 to a certain amount of places in 10 different programming languages

• A recipe book application for cooking pies

• A drawing application that utilizes 𝜋

• A music application that features a song about 𝜋

• An education application that helps children understand geometry with 𝜋

This is meant to be fun and not intense and crazy. Since you have only 3 and 14 minutes to make this right, we're looking for creativity and completeness of the application!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDiSYp_51iY