San Bernardino, Calif. – The Computer Science and Engineering Club at Cal State San Bernardino will host its first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Hackathon this weekend. The event will be held at the John M. Pfau Library Wedge on campus on Saturday, March 2 starting at 6 p.m. and ending Sunday, March 3 at noon.

The event will be a competition between teams of 3-5 people who will be given 15 hours to hack enough code to demonstrate the next morning. The efforts of each team will be judged and prizes may be given as well.

The hackathon is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) foothill section, Google, CSUSB Associated Students Inc. (ASI), the university’s Computer Science and Engineering Club (CSE), as well as Information Technology Services (ITS).

The event is open to everyone and there is a $5 admission fee per participant, who are required to bring their own computers.

For disability accommodations, please contact the Computer Science and Engineering Club at events.cse.csusb@gmail.com.

For more information, contact Arusyak Hovhannesyan at president.cse.csusb@gmail.com or Sagar Patel CSE Club Vice President at vicepresident.cse.csusb@gmail.com.

About Cal State San Bernardino

California State University, San Bernardino is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in Inland Southern California. Opened in 1965 and set at the foothills of the beautiful San Bernardino Mountains, the university serves more than 20,000 students each year and graduates about 4,000 students annually. The university offers more than 70 traditional baccalaureate and master’s degree programs, education credential and certificate programs, and a doctorate program in educational leadership. Every one of its academic programs that is eligible has earned national accreditation. CSUSB reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has the most diverse student population of any university in the Inland Empire. More than 80 percent of those who graduate are the first in their families to do so.