Hack-SMC Promo Code...save $5!

You can still buy your ticket for Hack-SMC!
Already registered? Make sure your team members get their tickets too!

Use the promo code SAVE5 on Eventbrite to save $5 off the ticket price.
Space is limited! Ticket sales will close when we sell out or on May 18 at 11:59PM. 

We have updated the Hack-SMC website with some new ideas for apps. You don't have to use these ideas, we just wanted to give some examples of real-world challenges faced by a few County Departments. We could really use YOUR help coming up with creative tech solutions! We will only send out 1 more email reminder about buying tickets for Hack-SMC 2016. Don't miss your chance to participate and make a real difference in our community! Prizes: FIVE (5) $1,500 top prizes* The top prize winners may be invited to compete for the $5,000 Grand Prize* at our first Apps Challenge. You'll have a couple of months to refine your winning Hack-SMC entry and present a finished app/website to the Apps Challenge judges at a reception, tentatively scheduled for September 2016. THREE (3) $250 Honorable Mentions*. We also have some opt-in prizes for developers using Kinetise, Esri, and/or Wolfram Alpha for their projects, check them out at hacksmc.devpost.com.  *: The final format and prizes will be announced the morning of the event and will be dependent on the number of participants and commitments from our sponsors.

 

The first 100 people to register will receive a $49 credit for Amazon Web Services. All Hack-SMC participants will get

• Breakfast & Lunch from Le Boulanger, Coffee from Peet's Coffee & Tea
• Hack-SMC 2016 T-shirt
• 3 years of free stuff from Microsoft BizSpark – Office software, services, tech support, and up to $750 per month of FREE Azure cloud services! 

We hope you will join us at GSV Labs on Saturday, May 21 as developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, students, techies, activists, designers and citizens of San Mateo County participate in an all-day competition to use open data and technology to create web and mobile apps that improve our communities. You do NOT need to be a professional developer or a resident of San Mateo County to participate! Our event is open to all passionate, creative, innovative, forward-thinking, problem-solving people who want to improve our community. For more information about the event please visit http://hack-smc.org/event/.

PLEASE NOTE: Participants must register in advance, we will not be selling tickets at the door. If you plan to participate with a team, make sure your teammates register ASAP. You do not need to be on a team to participate. There may be a chance to form a team at the event, but we can't guarantee you will be able to form a team.

If you have any questions, please email info@hack-smc.org. We hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you on May 21! 

Cheers,
The County of San Mateo and the Hack-SMC Team