Hi, hacker! We’re very excited to share this amazing weekend with you. This guide will help you get ready so that you don’t miss anything and can enjoy it to the fullest.
We will give out a water bottle, sleeping mask and ear plugs, so you don’t need to bring them with you.
Edifici A5 del Campus Nord, C/Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona
HackUPC will take place in the buildings A3 to A6 of the Campus Nord of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona). The entrance will be marked with signs so it will be easy for you to find it.
You can check how to arrive at live
Slack is our primary method of communication during HackUPC. Anything you need to know during the event will be announced there, and all members of the staff team are easily found in it (look for the HackUPC logo in the profile picture - that’s us!). These are some important channels that we have:
Coming soon you will have available our live page, where you’ll find the most recently updated schedule. Remember that all the times are UTC+2 (Barcelona local time)
Some important times to be aware of:
May 3rd, Friday
May 4th, Saturday
May 5th, Sunday
Check-in will be open from 4:00 PM to 6:45 PM. While in the queue, please have prepared your ID or the QR we sent you in the mail, as it will help us go quicker! In the check in we will check the rest of the information and we will give you, among other things, a bracelet that you will have to wear at all times.
If you arrive later, go to the info desk for late check-in. If you let us know that you’ll arrive late, we’ll have your welcome bag prepared for you!
We will also have baggage check-in so that you can leave your bags in a safe place.
The opening ceremony will be at the Vertex building at 7:00 PM. Doors will open at 6:30 PM.
Keep in mind that the auditorium has limited seating. For the ones that can not make it, we will stream the opening ceremony as well as the closing, on our Youtube channel.
#team-building
channel on our Slack to meet other hackers and potential team members before the event.The #1 rule is “Be respectful”. Please read HackUPC’s code of conduct. We require all hackers to abide by these rules.
Hacking is only allowed from 9:00 PM on Friday to 9:00 AM on Sunday!! You can start planning your project and setting up your work environment (libraries you may use, IDEs you may need…) before that, but no coding. Every project that has been started before the event will be disqualified.
During all the weekend we have mentors available for you! If you have any tech-related question or issue, you can contact our mentors through the #mentors
channel on Slack. Also you can find them around the venue, they will be wearing a white T-Shirt!
This year we have our new Mentor Lobby, located in classroom A5105. If you don’t find mentors in the hacking rooms, you can go to the Mentor Lobby to try your luck! Don’t get stuck in your project and use them to fix the problems fasters so you can finish your project in time.
Please submit your projects on our Devpost by Sunday 14 at 9:00 AM. Also remember to opt-in for any sponsor prizes that you are eligible for. You can submit early and still be able to edit your submission until 9:00AM!
Our judging will be in expo style. You’ll have 3 minutes to demo your project to our judges and show what you’ve learned and built during the weekend. We encourage you to demo even if your project it’s not finished, as our main criteria don’t include finishing it, and you will gain experience in demo your own project ideas.
If you have taken part in a sponsor challenge, you will have to do 2 expos: one in the Sponsor’s judging room and one at a HackUPC judging room. At HackUPC’s judging rooms, it is mandatory to do a code demo, powerpoint presentations and videos are not allowed and your evaluation will be severely undermined by doing a PowerPoint presentation.
Remember to opt in the challenges when submitting your project! (By submitting, you automatically opt to the HackUPC prize.) All the challenges will be presented in the opening ceremony as well as the prizes.
Check them during HackUPC in our live page: live.hackupc.com
On Friday night and Saturday morning, you will have the opportunity to attend several workshops given by our sponsors.
Check them in our live page to know the full list of topics! We will also announce them on Slack as they start.
Coming soon, stay tunned.
If you’re looking for a moment to relax and get away from any difficulties in your project, enjoy the activities that we have prepared for you. Just like the talks, we will announce them on Slack as they start!
Coming soon, stay tunned.
We will have sleeping rooms available for those hackers who may need a rest at night. They will be open from 12:00 PM to 8:00 AM (both on Friday and on Saturday) and we will have air mattresses so that you don’t have to sleep on the floor. Although we provide sleeping masks and ear plugs, please be respectful of other people’s rest when you enter or exit the rooms. You will find the sleeping rooms in the A3 building. You can check the maps in our live page.
Reminder: It’s forbidden to take the mattress outside of the sleeping area building!
Don’t forget to take a shower! We will provide various time slots on Saturday and Sunday where you will be able to shower.
Showers will be available from 9:30AM to 11:30AM and from 5:00PM to 7:00PM on Saturday. From 9:00AM to 11:00AM on Sunday. Please bring your towel and toiletry, as we will not provide it. Although they are gender separated, the showers are shared with other people, so you can bring a swimming suit if you feel uncomfortable.
Location: Poliesportiu
Except for the cafeteria in A5106 and the mentor lobby at A5105, all the rooms in the 1st and 2nd floors of the buildings A5 and A6, as well as A4’s second floor are open for you to hack in there!
Spain uses the two-pin continental plugs, types C and F and operates on a 230V supply voltage and 50Hz. Please bring an adapter if needed.
You can check the hardware we have at live
The food will be given out in front of the A5 building. We will let you know through #announcements
when it’s ready! We provide food taking into account every special diet that you may have. If you have a special diet and are unsure of the contents of each meal, don’t hesitate to ask the organisers and volunteers who will be next to the food. Remember to bring your water bottle if your drink of choice is water!
When you check in, you will be provided with a bracelet specifying your diet. Please check that the color of your bracelet is correct:
That’s sad!! But, if for any reason, you’re unable to finally join us, we would appreciate that you cancel your attendance through MyHackUPC.
Make sure to tag social media posts related to the event with #HackUPC2023. We’ll be featuring your posts and highlights from the event on our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
We will be offering flight reimbursements on a case-by-case basis. If you are eligible you will have received an email, you will be required to submit travel receipts on our travel reimbursement form in MyHackUPC. Take in account that your transport may or may not be fully covered by reimbursements.
For any travel reimbursement related questions, you can send them to reimbursements@hackupc.com
In order to get the money back, you should meet the requirements:
All the receipts should include the following information:
If you need to verify your attendance to HackUPC 2023 for any reason (i.e. proof to get ECTS for winning the hackathon), you can ask for an attendance letter after the event at contact@hackupc.com with the following information:
Check out our FAQ or email us at contact@hackupc.com! You can also reach out to us on our Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.