Los Angeles Loyolan February 5th 2020

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February 5, 2020

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New LGBTQ Living Learning Community to come to campus The new group will allow students to grow in the context of gender and sexual identity. Haley LaHa News Intern @LALoyolan

The Gender and Intersectional Identities Living Learning Community (LLC) will be located in one of the new pod-style residence halls currently being constructed on East Quad. The particular building has not been selected yet, but will begin in fall of 2020. The LLC aims to give students a greater understanding of gender and sexuality in their developing role as leaders through community building, discussions, reflection and experiences in the greater Los Angeles area. See LLC | Page 2

Clubs and orgs host first annual 'hackathon' Students get creative in a computer programming competition. Kennedi Hewitt News Intern @LALoyolan

LMU hosted its first annual 'hackathon' on Saturday, Feb. 1 in an effort to encourage students to apply their knowledge to computer programming. The event, which was open to all majors, was hosted by the following LMU chapters: Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “A hackathon is an event where a group of people (or 'hackers') form small teams and collaborate to build a minimum-viable product within a limited period of time," according to the LMUHacks website. Additionally, the hackathon welcomed sponsors from Tech Empower and Mozilla. The day began at 10 a.m. with an opening ceremony, followed by team building activities. Soon after, a series of workshops commenced which taught the student participants a variety of new skills. Throughout the day, the different teams created projects in the form of applications, websites and more.

The final projects were judged in five categories: Best Freshman/Transfer Student Hack, Most Creative Hack, Best Hack for Good, TechEmpower’s Best Overall Hack and Mozilla’s State of the Internet Hack.The judges included professors BJ Johnson, Andrew Forney, Jordan Freitas and the chair of the computer science department, Ray Toal, sponsor Bijan Marashi, alumni Jay Patel and Ryan Taus, and Teddy Chu and Kevin Metelus, both of whom are sponsors and alumni. One team, consisting of sophomore entrepreneurship major Briana King, sophomore electrical engineering major Alek Yegazarian and freshman civil engineer major Alghalia Abulhasan, focused their project on Spotify streams and using streams as a means of donating to charity. “The brainstorming was fun because we started out with a completely different idea, and then it went from one idea to another to the end product. It was also very interesting to learn how to create a website,” said Abulhasan. In one workshop, called the Basic Web Development Workshop, participants learned about web design. Yegazarian said, “I came here not really knowing HTML or knowing that it’s really like a language. But I got to work with it and that’s how we were building our web pages … It’s really cool –– I want to learn more.” See Hackathon | Page 2


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