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            Ever since I went to my first hackathon as a sophomore, I've
            lamented the lack of a hackathon at Wesleyan. Spring semester junior
            year, I joined up with a few other likeminded invdividuals and
            founded WesHack, Wesleyan's first hackathon. I handled most of the
            overall organization, including (but not limited to!) running and
            scheduling meetings, building the website, creating the hackathon's
            brand and merch, and recruiting new members. We fundraised over
            $2,500 from local restaurants and Wesleyan organizations, and hosted
            a successful virtual event where over half of Wesleyan CS majors
            participated, and 14 teams submitted projects! You can view the
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            Wesleyan has a great computer science department, but almost all of
            the classes focus on the theoretical aspects of CS. These concepts
            are definitely useful, but I always craved something more hands on,
            more practical. For me, the obvious answer was hackathons and
            projects, but I had to go outside of Wesleyan to find these
            opportunities. Going to Hack@Brown or YaleHack was fun, but every
            time I did a hackathon hosted by another school all I could think
            was, "why doesn't Wesleyan have one of these?"
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            I was planning to start a hackathon on my own junior year, but then
            I heard that Code_Wes, the new coding club on campus, was planning
            one. I eagerly joined in, excited to create a hackathon at Wes. It
            became clear very quick that I was the most experienced one there,
            as I was a year older and I had done 5 hackathons, while all the
            Code_Wes people were sophomores and most had done only 1 hackathon,
            if that. I quickly took on a leadership role as my experience proved
            to be very helpful. I suggested we move the hackathon from February
            to April to give us plenty of time to prepare, get sponsors, make a
            website, and overall create a hackathon that was as high quality and
            legit as that of other schools. I also set us up with weekly
            scheduled meetings, a week-by-week schedule that went backtimed from
            the hackathon date to the current moment, a website I built,
            color-coded task assignment by week, and every other organizational
            strategy I had learned while making The Great Invention Heist.
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            The lack of practical opportunities at Wes makes a lot of people
            nervous about their skill level, believing that they aren't talented
            enough or don't know enough for software engineering. Since
            practical projects that grant that experience require the confidence
            to seek them out at Wes, this is an ugly self-perpetuating cycle. I
            wanted to make sure <i>all</i> CS students at Wes knew that WesHack
            was a perfect fun and low-stakes opportunity for them to gain the
            practical experience and confidence that they wanted. We emphasized
            this idea in every single email we sent out, in multiple places on
            our website, in every blurb, in every Instagram post, to really
            hammer this idea home. I also made sure we hosted beginner workshops
            on topics such as Github/HTML/CSS and Python Flask/Google App
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            WesHack was a smashing success, over 60 students showed up, which is
            over half of all CS majors at Wesleyan! We had 14 teams submit
            wonderful projects, which can be viewed
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            teams all had a ton of fun, attending virtual events like online
            pictionary and trivia, and participating in an original CS meme
            competition! We distributed prizes to the top 3 teams, the best new
            hacker team, the team with the best social/environmental hack, and
            the team with the best Wesleyan spirit! Here are the first place
            team and the team spirit winners with their prizes, along with one
            of the finalist memes! We look forward to hosting WesHack 2022 in
            person, bigger and better than ever!
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