Wonderfully crazy and fun day at hackmit yesterday… There were more than 1100 students… About 700 of them from MIT and 400 others that were flown in at the events expense. I don’t think I’ve ever been around this many Uber smart people . And I’m proud to say we were ready for them. Our Ibm team was there in force… Call we had prepared long and hard for this and it felt very good
Several of us got there very early to begin setting up… It was fun being in that large stadium all by ourselves
By 9 o’clock when The event officially began we were ready
I had to make a short 902nd presentation at the opening ceremony that laid out everything Ibm was doing, our challenges, our prizes etc. It’s hard to make such a short speech
As soon as the opening ceremony was over the students poured in and we were absolutely mobbed for swag… Luckily we were well prepared
We spent the morning helping student teams decide what to do and trying to convince them to let us help them. I think we did a pretty good job… Will see today
Around 1 o’clock my friend Derek did a very well-done tech talk on the Ibm programs. He talked about his work with project owl… One of last year’s call for code projects that he helped his wife. He then walk people through how to use IBM cloud by showing them how he had hooked up his Tesla. It was standing room only
The rest of the day was just meeting with students helping them where We could
We took breaks when we could to eat etc. I really enjoyed hanging out with The other members of the Ibm team
From there on it was hacking until about 2:30 AM when things got pretty quiet
Some of that quiet time allowed Derek to let me drive his Tesla. ‘
It’s the closest thing I’ve ever been into to a rocket ship. Truly an amazing machine
I got out my electric go cart… Which was my “indoor Tesla”… Here is Hendrik taking spin
Then more hacking
I did note that we were the only sponsor there after about midnight on… Go team Ibm!
I went home and got about 3 1/2 hours sleep… And feel great. Just about to walk in there this morning. Let’s see how it goes today
Night all, nite Sam
– me