May 30, 2026 • CSUB Student Union MPR
Hack the Valley 2026
Students shipped practical AI, education, and social-impact projects in one day — and proved Bakersfield has more builders than most people think.
By the numbers
The first year is now a proof point.
This recap is built to be useful after the event: show what students built, give attendees a feedback path, and make it easy for helpers and sponsors to raise their hand for the next round.
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Project showcase
What teams built.
These cards use sanitized public fields only: project title, team name, track, description, and intentionally public links. Contact emails, raw member details, and admin-only media URLs are not exposed.
Built at HTV?
Attach your project to this event.
Create or claim a project from the participant workspace. We’ll associate it with Hack the Valley 2026 automatically — no event slug field.
Submit projectEvent photos
Students, mentors, demos, and a room that actually had energy.
Selected from the event photo archive and optimized for the web. Originals stay untouched.
Feedback
Tell us what to improve.
Whether you attended, signed up, mentored, volunteered, sponsored, or watched from the sidelines, the survey helps make the next one better.
Open the feedback surveyWhat comes next
Help make this more than a once-a-year hackathon.
We need organizers, workshop hosts, mentors, sponsors, photographers, recruiters, student club partners, judges, and people willing to do the unglamorous logistics that make community real.