Registration for the BIGGEST student-run hackathon in Singapore, Hack&Roll 2025, is OPEN!

Register now HERE - and sign up quickly, as spots may go fast before you can say 'QUACK'!

Remember when we said spots may go quicker than you can say ‘QUACK’? We weren’t kidding! 💨

Slots for Hack&Roll 2025 registration are closing soon, so make sure to check you’ve verified your account and submitted the registration form if you wish to participate!

For those who haven’t registered yet, there’s still a chance! Click here to get started!

See y’all soon! 🥰

📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!

Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization

🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ Marshall Wace, a leading global asset manager renowned for its innovative use of data and technology in investment strategies.

What You'll Learn:

🔹 Web Scraping: Build Python Scrapy crawlers to collect valuable datasets.
🔹 Real-Time Data Streaming: Harness the power of Kafka for dynamic data inputs.
🔹 Data Storage & Management: Simplify your workflow with SQLite.
🔹 Data Visualization: Create interactive dashboards with Plotly Dash (no advanced JS needed!).

Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on data engineering skills! 📊

💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python & SQL knowledge (setup guide will be shared with participants on our discord server).
📅 When: 9th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-04
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-1-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!

Building Full-Stack Web Apps with User Authentication & Data Persistence using Supabase

Join us for a hands-on workshop conducted by our ✨ Bronze Sponsor ✨ Supabase!

You'll learn how to build full-stack web applications with seamless user authentication and data persistence. We'll be leveraging Supabase, a powerful open-source backend-as-a-service built on PostgreSQL, to manage user details and sessions effortlessly.

What You'll Learn:

🔹 Setting up a Supabase project
🔹 Implementing user authentication
🔹 Managing data persistence with PostgreSQL
🔹 Exploring modern AI tools like v0.dev, bolt.new, and lovable.dev to prototype applications faster.

Whether you're a budding developer or looking to refine your full-stack skills, this workshop is perfect for you! 🚀

🗓 When: 10th Jan, Friday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-2-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

Hey everyone!

Reminder that our first pre-event technical workshop is in less than ~1 hours' time!

🎟 Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization

🕧 Today, 6:00 to 8:00pm SGT,
📍COM1-02-04

If you have successfully RSVP'd, make sure to join the discord server and follow the setup guide provided here before the workshop.

All those who have successfully RSVP’d to the workshop would have received an email from us to their inboxes with an invite to the Hack&Roll discord server.

We will also be providing free dinner 🍱 to all attendees!

🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀

🎯 Building a Mini Search Engine: From Crawling to Searching

🔍 Curious about how search engines work? Join this hands-on workshop, proudly brought to you by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨, Ahrefs. Alexandre Bourquelot, Backend Engineer at Ahrefs, will guide you through building a small-scale search engine in Python!

💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Crawling: Extract text content from web pages.
🔹 Indexing: Build an in-memory index for fast data retrieval.
🔹 Searching: Implement simple search functionality to return relevant pages for your queries.

💡 Pre-setup Requirements:
🔹 Access to Google Colab
🔹 (Optional) Local Python3 installation if you prefer coding on your own machine

📅 When: 14th January, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM3-01-22
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

🌟 Don’t miss out on this opportunity to dive into the world of search engines and learn from industry experts!

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-3-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀

🎯 Web App development using Streamlit

🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group.

💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Building web apps without frontend knowledge.
🔹 How to use Streamlit for data applications.

💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python knowledge
📅 When: 15th Jan, Wednesday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on web development skills! 🌐✨

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀

🎯 OKX Presents : Building the Future of Scalable and Resilient Systems

🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ OKX, an innovative cryptocurrency exchange with advanced financial services.

💻 What You'll Learn:
You'll learn the essentials of constructing an exchange from the ground up, followed by a hands-on journey through implementing a modern read-write separation system to manage high workloads efficiently.

📅 When: 16th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06

🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on scalable design experience! ✨

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

📢 Workshop Announcements!
Hey everyone
Just a few short announcements on the upcoming workshops for Hack&Roll 2025!

OKX Workshop Sign-Up: Don’t miss out! Sign up now to secure your spot for the upcoming workshop by OKX on 16th Jan. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup

Web App development using Streamlit workshop is tomorrow! Last chance to Join us at COM1-02-06 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup

See you there! 😊

OKX Presents : Building the Future of Scalable and Resilient Systems will be at COM1-02-06 Seminar Room 1, starting soon at 6pm today!

See you there! 😊

(psst, everyone feel free to join)

📢 Workshop Announcements!

We have uploaded the recording for the following workshops on our youtube channel:
Building full stack web apps by Supabase : https://youtu.be/XahKjJtmhys
Building a Mini Search Enginer by Ahrefs : https://youtu.be/IAGHoZwo83I
Web App development using Streamlit by ST Engineering : https://youtu.be/90k2yU4FMgo

All the best for Hack&Roll 2025! We look forward to see you guys there! 😊

Hey everyone! We know it’s past December :p But as a CNY goodie for some, we have performed the Advent of Code 2024 raffling!

Just as a reminder, last December, we ran an event where anyone who joins the NUS Hacker Advent of Code (joined) leaderboard and gets`>= 20` ⭐ would be eligible for a raffle for some goodies!

If you are one of the winners, please DM @woojiahao on Telegram your name, email, and a screenshot of your Advent of Code dashboard for proof and we will send you a Grab voucher!

The list of winners (in no particular order) are:

1. Professional-Procrastinat0r (22 ⭐)
2. RussellDash332 (50 ⭐)
3. Nimastic (21 ⭐)
4. Ryan Tan (50 ⭐)
5. hackyjacky (50 ⭐)
6. Regan Tan (20 ⭐)
7. bedminer (24 ⭐)
8. alvinnws (45 ⭐)
9. ThePyProgrammer (20 ⭐)
10. Sherman Ho (50 ⭐)
11. Eqedos (22 ⭐)
12. claudeonrs (32 ⭐)
13. jason (30 ⭐)
14. Bryce 3D (43 ⭐)
15. roshnidaksha (50 ⭐)

Thank you to all who participated and we hope to see you participating again next year!