From School Planners to Games: ZotHacks 2022 Delivers Creative Beginner Hacks
Hack at UCI held ZotHacks 2022 from Nov. 5-6, its first hackathon of the 2022-2023 school year. With over 50 participants, this year’s ZotHacks, which primarily includes beginning programmers, produced 13 projects. There were a variety of projects that supported students like Petr’s Pantry Meals, and others that were for entertainment like Instant Wrapped.
Hacks were judged based on their technology, quality, purpose and growth. Here are the winning projects from ZotHacks 2022.
First Place: Zot Class Mobile Zot Class Mobile is an app that students can use to plan their school schedules on their phones. Inspired by the website Zot Course, this app allows students to search for their courses based on term, department, course code and course title. The search results yield all the information needed to craft a schedule for the upcoming quarter.
Zot Class Mobile was created by:
Mason Wong – first-year software engineering major
Dylan Vu (mentor) – third-year computer science major
Second Place: The Petr Archives “Petr Drops are very important to UCI’s Culture,” according to the creators of The Petr Archives, which is why they sought to create a website that documents the many different Petr stickers released each year for the Anteater community to appreciate. The Petr Archives website records the following information about Petr stickers: sticker name, an image of the sticker, drop date, location and the Petr sticker creator’s Instagram account.
The Petr Archives was created by:
Ella Chung – second-year biological sciences major and ICS minor
Jeremy Peros – second-year computer science and engineering major
Zachary Qin – third-year computer engineering major
Datthew Nguyen (mentor) – fourth-year computer science major
Third Place: Gmail Wrapped At the end of each year, Spotify releases Spotify Wrapped, where listeners can view their most-listened-to songs and albums. Gmail Wrapped does the same: it takes the latest 500 emails in a user’s inbox and determines the top senders. It also interprets data to give users fun achievements and milestones: if Amazon is a user’s top sender, they get a “shopaholic” title.
Ghadah Ibn Jurais – second-year data science major and bioinformatics minor
Evan Chen (mentor) – fourth-year philosophy and psychology double major
Leslie Lei – fourth-year informatics major and ICS minor
Hacker’s Choice: ZotProfs ZotProfs is a web-based app that uses data from the ICS Student Council’s (ICSSC) PeterPortal API to help students decide which classes they want to take with which professor. After searching for a class on ZotProfs, students are provided a list of professors teaching the course. Professors are ranked by the percentage of students who passed, the number of A’s and the average GPA of their class.
