Name: Hack and Make
Purpose: Hack and Make serves to promote the attendance of hackathons as well as maker culture. Hackathons, a combination of “hack” and “marathon,” are a category of events in which a small team of students are given a time frame (often 24 hours) to create a software or hardware project from scratch. Maker culture is the technology-centric extension of do-it-yourself culture. Our focus is on providing a collaborative environment for teams of students to create their own projects either at events or on their own. We will achieve this primarily through the attendance and organization of hackathons, workshops to prepare students to work in a team environment, and presentations of student projects throughout the academic year.
President: Mike Chaires
Vice President: Amanda De Leon
Brownsville Branch Chair: Christian A. Martinez
Secretary/Historian: Amanda Medina
Treasurer: Gilbert Fonseca III and Alissa Flores
Program Coordinator: Mauricio Flores
Social Media Editor: Roel Barrea
Adviser: Timothy Wylie, assistant professor in the Computer Science department
Activities: Attends Hackathons outside the Rio Grande Valley, participates in HESTEC, develops and presents technological lessons at workshops, learns or improves coding and programming skills, attends H&M Learning and Coding workshops, volunteers in techie community service events.
Meetings: 3-4:30 p.m. every other Friday in LHSB 1.102 on the Brownsville campus. Next meeting is Feb. 24.
In Edinburg, 12:15-1:30 p.m. every other Thursday in ENGR 1.262. Next meeting is Feb. 23.
Membership requirements: None
Dues: $20 (includes Hack and Make T-shirt, food and hardware access rental).
For more information, email: christian.a.martinez01@utrgv.edu or chaires97@gmail.com
–Compiled by Michelle Espinoza
