When CruzHacks 2025’s WiFi crashed on day one, local ISP Cruzio swooped in to save the day. Within an hour, they restored blazing-fast internet for 400+ hackers. Thanks to Cruzio and City staff, the hackathon was back on track—proving once again that Santa Cruz’s tech community is small but mighty.

At CruzHacks 2024, students created SignSight, a mobile phone application that interprets American Sign Language (ASL). It allows the user to record and translate someone's ASL gestures using a computer vision-based action recognition model.

16-year-old Kierra Wang, a member of a CruzHacks winning team, has continued her trailblazing mindset as a nominee for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Student Visionaries of the Year campaign.

CruzHacks 2023 returned to the UC Santa Cruz campus from February 3-5, 2023. Nearly 400 students from across the country participated.

Apply to be a Mentor or Judge at CruzHacks 2023 on January 13-15. Whether you are an engineer, project manager, marketeer, designer, etc., participation in this event will inspire you.

Apply to be a Mentor or Judge at CruzHacks 2022 on January 14-16. Whether you are an engineer, project manager, marketeer, designer, etc., participation in this event will inspire you.

Open for applications; $1,000 cash prize for Top High School Team. Deadline to apply is December 15th at 11:59 PM PST. This event is entirely virtual.

That’s a wrap on CruzHacks 2021! Find out more about the winners and their projects.

A CruzHacks participant pivots during COVID 2020 Realtime: a new social networking app built around pop-up video chats. And lands $4M in funding.

CruzHacks brings together a community of students and professionals to design solutions for real world problems, with the inclusion of tech.

After an exciting weekend of collaboration and innovation, CruzHacks 2020 was a great success. Revealing the positive power of tech, diverse and passionate individuals mobilized their coding skills to solve real problems. 

CruzHacks 2020, the annual student-run hackathon at UC Santa Cruz, will be held at the Stevenson Event Center from January 17 to 19.