Friday September 19, 2014 – 1pm
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1:00- Hack the North at University of Waterloo
Sean Young, Hack The North
Hack the North is an international, student run, collegiate hackathon held at the University of Waterloo. A hackathon is an event where teams build cool stuff together for 36 hours- sleep is optional, making awesome things is not. Projects usually take the form of web, mobile or hardware applications, but that’s just the status quo. For the past three years, every Y-Combinator class has contained at least one Waterloo company, including the likes of Thalmic Labs and Pebble. As the best school for engineering, computer science, and mathematics in the country, the University of Waterloo is often referred to as “Silicon Valley’s feeder school” and has the largest student internship program in the world.
“Hacking” has been defined as “the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s original purpose.” Depending on one’s perspective, the term “hacking” might bring up negative associations-with issues such as identity theft, breaches of national security, or invasions of privacy-or positive associations-with intellectual freedom and curiosity, combined with a trickster spirit and an inclination to challenge authority and conventional norms. Either way, hacking brings up many ethical questions.
1:30- Word on the Street Festival
Julie Marshall, Event Coordinator for the City of Kitchener
This year The Word On The Street Kitchener will take a new direction that focuses on actively engaging festival goers in all things literacy. We are working with some of our downtown partners to create a new component to the festival… The Word On The Street Bites. Join us at participating coffee shops, restaurants and The Kitchener Market for a stellar line-up of authors, poets, meet & greets, bloggers, workshops and book signings.
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