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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Melvin Karupati <mkarupat@emich.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2026 2:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jadwisienczak, Wojciech <jadwisie@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Hack The Nest - a free hackathon at EMU, Nov 14-15, open to every major<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Hi Wojciech,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">My name is Melvin Karupati, and I co-lead Hack The Nest, Eastern Michigan University's first hackathon. It is a 24 hour hackathon running Saturday November 14 through Sunday November
15 in Ypsilanti, and it is free to attend and open to undergraduates (including community college students), graduate students and postdocs from any school and any major.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Would you be willing to forward the message below to the students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program? With
<b>SICK</b> and <b>Kawasaki Robotics</b> partnering with us this year, it is a particularly good fit for your students. It is written to be sent as is, so there is nothing else we would need from you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Happy to answer any questions at all, and thank you for your time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Best regards,<br>
Melvin Karupati<br>
Co-lead, Hack The Nest<br>
Google Developer Group on Campus at EMU<br>
Website: hackthenest.tech<br>
All our socials: <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Fhackthenest.org&data=05%7C02%7Ceecs_msee%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C1fc49d31eb004de2d0ff08df3459bd74%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C639287232189413959%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IT9j4OPGADJwJDTCoLA%2FW%2BCuGLPqKyOZr0NsfU7ArjY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://linktr.ee/hackthenest.org" target="_blank">
linktr.ee/hackthenest.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dear Students,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Hack The Nest is Eastern Michigan University's first hackathon: 24 hours of building, Saturday November 14 to Sunday November 15, at the EMU Student Center and Halle Library in Ypsilanti.
It is student-led, free to attend, and open to students from any college and any major.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Register at
<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackthenest.tech%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ceecs_msee%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C1fc49d31eb004de2d0ff08df3459bd74%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C639287232189464373%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=peG1zaG0N8rmCWev9%2B%2FoXPxOCuDq8HBGG6yYfd3I618%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://hackthenest.tech/" target="_blank">
hackthenest.tech</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">A hackathon is a weekend where students build something that solves a real problem. Teams form on site, work through the night, and present what they made to judges. It has nothing
to do with breaking into systems, and no coding background is required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">You do not need to be a computer science student. We are running a hardware track alongside the software work, and the teams that do best are rarely the most technical ones. They
are the teams that picked a problem worth solving and could explain who it helps and why. First-time attendees are exactly who this event is built for.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Saturday Nov 14, 9:00 AM to Sunday Nov 15, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Where:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> EMU Student Center (check-in) and Halle Library, Ypsilanti, MI<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are not able to cover travel. Teams often carpool or road-trip to hackathons.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Free to attend for undergraduates (including community college students), graduate students and postdocs from any college and any major, plus anyone who graduated within the past year<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No experience needed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Free meals and swag all weekend<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Halle Library stays open all night, so there is space to work or rest between builds<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bring your own team of up to 4, or come solo and we will match you with a team at our team-matching session<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beginner workshops and mentors available the whole time<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prizes across multiple tracks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bring a laptop, charger, photo ID and anything you need to stay overnight<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Hack The Nest is hosted by Google Developer Group on Campus at EMU. This year
<b>SICK</b>, who make sensors and LiDAR for automation, and <b>Kawasaki Robotics</b>, who build industrial robots, are partnering with Hack The Nest, so
<b>hardware, embedded and robotics</b> projects fit right in. We are also planning a
<b>robotics exhibition</b>, and more robotics companies are coming on board. Other partners so far include OpenAI, IBM, NASA (through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium), Quantum Rings, ElevenLabs and g.tec, with more joining. We are expecting 600+ attendees
from EMU and across the Midwest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Register at
<b><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackthenest.tech%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ceecs_msee%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C1fc49d31eb004de2d0ff08df3459bd74%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C639287232189490942%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IBZLER3kdJc7KQlSfmeknBeX6KsPDrD7UlN%2FX%2B59ZXE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://hackthenest.tech/" target="_blank">hackthenest.tech</a></b>.
We would love to see you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Best regards,<br>
Melvin Karupati<br>
Co-lead, Hack The Nest<br>
Google Developer Group on Campus at EMU<br>
Website: <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhackthenest.tech%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ceecs_msee%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C1fc49d31eb004de2d0ff08df3459bd74%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C639287232189528697%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zPErYPkUT2kpMXPxMuxBwbAKhvFlMsMW0RukHSUE%2Bn8%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://hackthenest.tech/">
hackthenest.tech</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hack_the_nest" target="_blank">@hack_the_nest</a><br>
All our socials: <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Fhackthenest.org&data=05%7C02%7Ceecs_msee%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C1fc49d31eb004de2d0ff08df3459bd74%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C639287232189637452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3bNUF6kyEY54CqiWIrTNbnBWyMaqpUsiW5mGgfWzKjE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://linktr.ee/hackthenest.org" target="_blank">
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