Falcon Hacks

​Falcon Hacks is a one-day hackathon run by our club at Foothill High. It’s open to everyone, all ages and all skill levels. You spend the day building whatever you want with a team (or solo) and leave with a project that helps improve the world today. There’s going to be free food, mentors on the floor, and real prizes from our sponsors. Anyone is welcome and it’s completely free to attend!

​You don’t need any experience to come. If you’ve never done a hackathon before that’s totally fine, most people there won’t have either. Just bring your laptop and charger. If you don’t have an idea or a team yet you can figure that out when you get there.

​Sponsors

​ElevenLabs makes the most realistic AI voices out there, the kind used in movies, games, and apps all over the world. Every participant gets a free month of their Creator tier just for attending, so you can build with real AI voice tools during the hackathon. There’s also a separate award for the best project built with ElevenLabs, and winners of that get three months of their biggest plans for the whole team.

​VitalEdge Technologies makes software for equipment dealerships, so the companies that sell and rent out things like tractors and construction equipment. Thousands of dealerships around the world run their business on it. They’ve been with Falcon Hacks from the start, and their support is a big part of why this event is free.

​Midas Robotics builds low-cost, durable tactile sensors that go on robot hands and grippers so robots can actually feel what they’re touching. It’s the kind of hardware that makes the next generation of robotics possible, and they’re backing the next generation of builders too.

​Doorstop Education is a nonprofit that helps students change what isn’t working at their school. Students pick a real problem at their school, build a plan, and actually fix it. If you’ve ever looked around your campus and thought “someone should do something about this,” they’re the people who help you become that someone.

​YRI Fellowship pairs high schoolers one-on-one with PhD mentors to do real research over 10 weeks, the kind that gets published. They’re putting up scholarships toward the fellowship as prizes for our winning teams.

​ArgosX does independent security testing for apps that get built fast, which is exactly what happens at a hackathon. Every team gets free scans of their project during the event, there’s a live leaderboard running all day, and the most solid build of the day wins a full human-verified security pass on their project.

​Exea Labs gives high school researchers free compute, mentorship, and community, completely free, forever. They run a research collective of 800+ student researchers across 25 countries with serious hardware behind it. If you leave Falcon Hacks wanting to go deeper, they’re where you go next.

​If you have any questions email me at abhinavmgarg@gmail.com or join the Discord at Join Discord Server. See you there!