Feb 28, 2024
By Victoria Grdina
CornHacks is an annual hackathon hosted by the School of Computing. It’s an intensive computer science competition focused on learning and trying new things and participants are encouraged to work in teams, collaborating on a technical project of interest.
This year, CornHacks was hosted in-person at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. The hackathon began on Saturday, February 17, and continued through Sunday, February 18. This year’s theme was “Beat the Odds,” which students were at liberty to interpret however they wished.
The following teams were selected as this year's winners:
• 1st Place: Lucky Liars by Blaine Traudt, Anton Angeletti, Louis Quattrocchi, and Dawson McGahan
https://github.com/BALD-rs/lucky-liars
• 2nd Place: Even Steven Beats the Odds by Sebastian Wysocki, Zohair Khan, Joey Ng, and Mayank Sharma
https://github.com/Zohair-Khan/CornHacks2024
• 3rd Place: Blackjack Optimal by Landry Geiger, John Post, Roy Dumblauskas, and Zach Wallenburg
https://github.com/landrygeiger/cornhacks2024
• Story Track Winner: Fortunes Gambit: Realm of Chance by Zoe Kerchal, Owen Addison, Leo Martin, and Andrew Wiebe
https://github.com/WildkrattFan/CornHacks-2024
• Simulation Track Winner: brAIn rot by Jack Rankin, Chaitra Pirisingula, Tong Wu, and Drew Medina
https://github.com/jackrankin/brAIn_rot
• General Track Winner: Bet Better by Gage Cammack, Dante Dyches-Chandler, Jake Rance, and Joseph Seibel
https://github.com/j-seibel/better-front
More details at: https://unlcornhacks.com/#/home