{"id":6823,"date":"2018-01-24T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:05","slug":"register-for-hacks-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/24\/register-for-hacks-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Register NOW for Hacks with Friends 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-WebBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Hacks with Friends March 1-2, 2018\" width=\"600\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-WebBanner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-WebBanner-125x29.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-WebBanner-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register today for <\/span><b>Hacks with Friends 2018<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a fun-filled event where you have two days to break out of your confines, form a team, build a project (or hack) from scratch, and show it off in a competition! This \u201chackathon\u201d is all about collaboration, making new connections, and exploring new technologies and ways of doing business or improve an existing service. The only limit is your imagination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hacks with Friends 2018 will take place March 1-2 at the Ross School of Business and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is open to all U-M IT professionals. Developers, analysts, UX, service center specialists, designers, security specialists, trainers, desktop support, project manager, or whoever else you are\u2026 We want you to be a part of it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hacks with Friends is an evolution of an idea that began in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\/2013\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2013 with \u201cMSIS Hack Day.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d The energy created from having a hack event for campus IT professionals grew. In the spring of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\/2015\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an expanded Hacks with Friends event was tested with participants from ITS, MCIT, MSIS, and the School of Dentistry. The success of that event paved the way to open the invitation to the entire Michigan IT community in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\/2016\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\/2017\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and again this year. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year&#8217;s Hacks with Friends is sponsored by the U-M Office of the Vice President for IT and CIO and made possible by the efforts of volunteers from across the Michigan IT community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have an idea for a hack? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pitches for hacks can be submitted online the week of February 12. You will need to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">briefly describe the concept, create a short video, list out the skill sets you are looking for to be successful, and fit your pitch into one of the six 2018 Hack themes.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academic Innovation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthcare and BioSciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IT Operations (Improve quality or efficiency of existing IT processes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/hacks-with-friends\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hacks with Friends<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page for specific information. If you would like contribute to making the event a success, please consider <\/span><a href=\"mailto:hackswithfriends@umichi.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">volunteering<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register today for Hacks with Friends 2018\u2014a fun-filled event where you have two days to break out of your confines, form a team, build a project (or hack) from scratch, and show it off in a competition! This \u201chackathon\u201d is all about collaboration, making new connections, and exploring new technologies and ways of doing business or improve an\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/24\/register-for-hacks-with-friends\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[336,26],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-hackathon","tag-training"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420-125x87.png",125,87,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",600,419,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HacksWFriends2017-600x420.png",358,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Joel Iverson, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/iversj\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Register today for Hacks with Friends 2018\u2014a fun-filled event where you have two days to break out of your confines, form a team, build a project (or hack) from scratch, and show it off in a competition! 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