CMU's Largest Hackathon
Feb 2—3, 2024
TartanHacks is the largest Hackathon at CMU! Organized by ScottyLabs, it's a 24-hour hackathon where participants from all over the country create innovative projects. This year, we are happy to be fully in person again! Come on over to hack, learn from our workshops and incredible speakers, and meet other hackers!
Feb 2nd-3rd @ Carnegie Mellon University!
This year's theme is...
Make your ideas louder and heard across scales. It's about transforming whispers into roars, taking those sparks of creativity and turning them into blazing beacons of change. Whether it's a subtle improvement on an existing technology or a groundbreaking new concept, we encourage you to think audaciously and expansively.
Think bigger and bolder, and let your small ideas amplify exponentially!
Feb 2.
Check In Begins + Sponsorship Expo
Connan
3:45 PM
Please arrive by this time
McConomy
4:00 PM
Opening Ceremony
McConomy
4:30 - 5:15 PM
PLS Tech Talk
McConomy
5:15 - 5:30 PM
Team Formation Mixer
Rangos
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dinner
Rangos
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Po-Shen Loh Talk
Danforth
7:30 - 8:30 PM
RoboClub Talk
Danforth
9:00 - 9:30 PM
Hacker Activity + Karaoke + Midnight Snack
11:30 PM - 2:00 AM
Feb 3.
Breakfast
Rangos
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Yaser Sheikh Talk
Danforth
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Ripple Talk
Danforth
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
Rangos
12:30 - 1:30 PM
PLS Workshop
Danforth
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Judging Expo
Rangos
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dinner
Rangos
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Closing Ceremony
McConomy
8:00 - 9:00 PM
Po Shen Loh
Professor @ CMU, Head Coach @ USA International Math Olympiad Team
Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way to learn challenging math live online at comparable engagement to live-streaming entertainment, to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest. He has earned academic distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Yaser Sheikh
VP of Research @ Meta, Founding Director of Meta Reality Lab, Pittsburgh
Yaser Sheikh is devoted to achieving photorealistic social interactions in augmented and virtual reality. He is a consulting professor at the Robotics Institute, CMU, where he directed the Perceptual Computing Lab producing OpenPose and the Panoptic Studio. His research broadly focuses on machine perception and rendering of social behavior, spanning sub disciplines in computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and has regularly served as a senior program committee member for SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and ICCV. His research has been featured by various news and media outlets including The New York Times, BBC, CBS, WIRED, and The Verge. With colleagues and students, he has won the Hillman Fellowship (2004), Honda Initiation Award (2010), Popular Science's Best of What's New Award (2014), as well as several conference best paper and demo awards (CVPR, ECCV, WACV, ICML).
ScottyLabs Prizes
Theme Prizes
External Prizes
