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CCI Sponsors Camp Polyhacks 3.0

Participants at Camp Polyhacks 3.0

The California Cybersecurity Institute, or CCI, sponsored Camp Polyhacks 3.0, a student-run hackathon, which took place at the San Luis Obispo Hot House from Jan. 18 to 19. 

Participants at the 2019 Camp PolyhacksOver those two days, Cal Poly student teams created and presented a business or product in order to solve problems surrounding sustainability, education or inclusivity. During the Learn by Doing event, Josh Ruiz, the CCI’s Network Strategy and Architecture Coordinator, and Zeeshan Khan, Cal Poly’s Bugcrowd Ambassador, mentored a student team. The first place team, Quokka, made a mobile app called Mobell which helps people with disabilities receive assistance from business employees. 

“Camp Polyhacks was an impressive display of the power of cooperative mobile app design. The ‘hackers, hipsters, hustlers’ method truly seemed to bring out the best in everyone in a diverse group of already highly motivated student teams. If demonstrating potential was the goal, they surpassed it with flying colors,” said Ruiz.

At the event, Khan invited the teams to the next Bugcrowd Local Meet Up open to the hacking community and students who want to learn more about cybersecurity and vulnerabilities. On Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, the CCI and Bugcrowd will meet at the local Woodstock Pizza in downtown San Luis Obispo to provide free drinks, food and insight into hacking, privacy, and cybersecurity.

Camp Polyhacks 2019 First Place Winners
First place team as pictured left to right: Emily Ticknor, Eric Grossman, Linnea Landgren, Alexander Garcia, Dominic Gaiero, Katy Barnard, Steven Taruc, and Kedwin Chen.