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MITS Tech Talks, Hackathon & Gaming LAN

September 23, 2016 @ 5:00 PM - September 24, 2016 @ 10:00 PM

Free

Gaming LAN (Local networked Computer/Console Gaming/Board Games) + Tech Company Presentations + Student Technology Presentations and Hackathon (Building and Hacking Software and Hardware systems).

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Plan of Events:

  • All Day and Night Computer, Console and Board Gaming.
  • Tech Company Presentations (Presentations from technology companies you could potentially work for in the future).
  • Student Technology Presentation (Do you have some cool Hardware or Software projects you been working on? Well this is an opportunity for you to show off and talk about your great work. Please use the “Contact Us” page to send us a message if you wish to do a presentation about your work)
  • Hackathon (All proficiency levels welcome. We will teach you. Please Register Here)
  • We also have some random prizes to give away during the event.

Schedule of events:

  • 17:00 – 18:00: LAN Setup
  • 18:00 – 18:10 : Monash IT Society Welcome Talk
  • 18:10 – 19:30 : Company Presentations
  • 19:30 – 20:00 : Student Presentations and Talks (Students talk about their own projects)
  • 20:00 – 22:00(next day) : Hackathon
  • 20:00 – 22:00(next day) : Gaming LAN and Board Games

Venue: Building F – Seminar Room 11, 12 and 13

For those unfamiliar with what a Hackathon and Gaming LAN is here is a short description of each.

A Hackathon is essentially a get-together of multiple people to tackle various IT challenges. A C(apture)T(he)F(lag) event is comprised of two or more teams solving various challenges. We are going to be hosting a jeopardy style CTF event. In jeopardy, teams compete in order to rack up the most points by completing challenges and solving puzzles. Jeopardy style CTF events cater for a wide range of skills, from beginners to advanced security professionals. The challenges and puzzles are both digital and physical, such as: software exploitation, web penetration, mathematical puzzles or lock-picking.

A Gaming LAN (Local Area Network) is an event where multiple people bring their own Gaming Computers either be a Laptop or Desktop. They then proceed to connect their computers to the same Local Area Network in order to play games with and against each other. Gaming this way insures the best possible latency when playing multiplayer games thus providing a lag free  and smooth gaming experience. Teams of players are also organized during these events and they put to compete against each other in various Electronic Mind Sports games.
The following games will be played mostly during the event (all are free), other games are also welcome but please insure you update or download these games. You can download these games at the LAN however it will take some time.
If you wish to bring your computer to the LAN please follow the instructions below in order to have internet access when you connect you computer.

Instructions on how to register your computer’s MAC Address, if you haven’t done that already, can be found here: Registration Link

If you’d like to join the MITS Discord Server here: Join Link (It’s FREE!)
(Discord is an amazing Multi-Platform (pc, mac, iOS, android) communication medium which features text chat, in game stats and a voice chat system. Similar to Skype and Teamspeak except for the fact that Discord is cool and is being actively developed by a dedicated team)

If you would like to bring any guests from off of Campus, please let the Admins by the names of ZeroOne or Megafisshy on Discord or the Forums know. This is very important! Security will not let your guests on campus otherwise.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the event please post it on the forums.

Please spread the word!

Details

Start:
September 23, 2016 @ 5:00 PM
End:
September 24, 2016 @ 10:00 PM
Cost:
Free

Organizer

Steve Velcev

Venue

Monash South Africa
144 Peter Road
Roodepoort, Gauteng South Africa
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