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Generally, I don't really have much time or really much of an excuse to just sit down and do work on a project I'm really interested in, Kate Ma, 2023 Pearl Hacks participant, said. It was really nice to have a space where we could just sit down for a day and really harness our creativity and see what we could come up with.

Participants can either enter Pearl Hacks with a team or form one at the event and are encouraged to attend workshops being held during the event. In addition, they cantalk with mentors to integrate what they learn from the workshops into their projects.

Jagani said submissions for each category are judged by representatives of its specific sponsor. For example, this year Google is one of the sponsors, and employees from the company will judge the projects submitted under that prompt.

Other prompts created by the Pearl Hacks team will be judged by faculty in the Department of Computer Science.

Depending on the success of each teams project, different prizes can be earned including AirPods, backpacks and other merchandise.

Patel saidduring her first UNC hackathon experience, the supportive environment really stuck out to her.

I had never been to a hackathon that valued team bonding and meeting other students that are similar to you, and that's really what Pearl Hacks is all about, Patel said.

A current senior, Jagani remembers coming into UNC intending to be a computer science major. But, she saidafter Pearl Hacks she found the information science major which ended up fitting her interests better.

Jagani said she hopes Pearl Hacks can help participants find something theyre passionate about, whether that be computer science or something else.

It's a beginner-friendly hackathon meant for women and gender non-conforming students, so it's just a super supportive environment overall, Patel said. But since it is beginner friendly, we aren't specifically looking for computer science students you can be literally any major.

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