About us
The HKUST Entrepreneurship Center has a mission to provide entrepreneurial support to students, alumni and staff. Its service consists of providing workshops and seminars as well as to run competitions to recognize and award entrepreneurial potentials. In the following two events, hackUST and hardUST, we welcome anyone who has passion to solve problems, add values to the society, and change the world. We cheirsh your vision and creativity in making your idea into reality.
hackUST '17 is our biggest and craziest hackUST yet!
hackUST is an annual 2-day event to develop your prototype, meet entrepreneurs and industry experts, pitch your ideas, enjoy unlimited free snacks, pizza, caffeine, and refreshments, and turn your boldest ideas into reality - all within an electrifying 24 hours!
hackUST ’17 is open to all university students / alumni from all around the world. Don’t worry if you are not experienced enough – what matters is how fast you can learn and how willing you are to step out of your comfort zone! Don’t worry if you don’t have a team, we have pre-hack workshops as well as prior team formation sessions!
Come join us and have the time of your life!
Date and Time: April 22nd 9:00am – April 23rd 5:00pm
Venue: Across the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology campus
Price: FREE ( + Free Event T-Shirt + Free Meals + Free Uber Rides to/from HKUST campus *up to HK$50 per ride x 1,000 quotas & first-come, first-served)
Language: English
Team size: 2-5
Official event website: hack.ust.hk/hack2017
Official event teaser: youtu.be/QY-BYz77LkU
hardUST is another special event that you may find interesting!
hardUST is a 3-day event for whom particularly are interested in hardware. hardUST is newly introduced this year as a 48-hour hardware hackathon and it will follow the theme of hackUST.
hardUST is open to all university students / alumni around the world. However, please note that the registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and space is limited as 100, so please do not hesitate to register the event.
*You can only participate in either hackUST or hardUST.
Come join us and have the time of your life!
Date and Time: April 21st 9:00am – April 23rd 5:00pm
Venue: Across the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology campus
Price: FREE ( + Free Event T-Shirt + Free Meals + Free Uber Rides to/from HKUST campus *Up to HK$50 per ride x 1,000 quotas & first-come, first-served)
Language: English
Team size: 4 (You can only register the event as an individual and you will be randomly assigned into teams of 4 at the day of the event)
Official event website: hack.ust.hk/hard2017
Ask us anything: hack@ust.hk
Happy hacking,
hackUST 2017 Team
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Dates
to 23rd April 2017 - 05:00 PM