👋 Welcome to Scrapyard Vancouver!

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Scrapyard Vancouver is where you build stupid stuff and win stupid prizes. This is NOT a formal competition or hackathon—it’s a chill place for you to hang out, meet some new friends, build funny stupid projects, and try out a new hobby if you haven’t coded before!

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This guide is a master document on Scrapyard Vancouver and should serve as a primary resource for any questions that you might have. If you have any questions that aren’t answered in this document, please feel free to reach out to an organizer on the BCYDC Discord. All announcements and communication will take place in the Discord so please ensure you are in it.

💫 Happy hacking!

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TO-DOs Before Scrapyard Vancouver

[ ] Join the British Columbia Youth Developer Collective Discord Server
[ ] Get your parents to sign the waiver, which was emailed to them this week
[ ] Review this information package and the Hack Club Code of Conduct
[ ] Pack your bags! Review the Packing List for your Scrapyard essentials

One of our mentors generously created a guide on setting up AI coding assistants, which will be of great assistance for you tomorrow. Please spend 10 minutes and follow the instructions here. If you need help or have any questions, reach out on our Discord server!

For more information on how to get to Scrapyard Vancouver, check out our transportation guide:

Transportation to Scrapyard

Important Information

Event
- All communication and sponsor prizes takes place on our Discord server
- You can use our venue wifi:
  - Name: VISST
  - Password: justified self-confidence!
- Teams can be a maximum of 3 people
Project Submissions
- You can use any AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) to work on your project—but it shouldn’t be a large chunk of what you make. We want to see creative and innovative scrappy projects, and AI should simply be a learning tool, not a crutch
  - You cannot use AI tools for the Make a Website, Get Free Boba workshop.
- All project submissions are due at 5:45 PM. Late submissions will not be allowed
- Submissions will be made on Hack Club Podium and will require a public GitHub repository with all the project code, as well as an optional YouTube demo video of the project
- We will host a short mandatory How to Submit Your Project workshop at 4 PM to explain the submission process
- All members of your team MUST be registered in your project submission for them to receive a prize
Please respect our venue space and talk to all other attendees! Our goal is to really make this a fun day, for people who code and even people who don’t… and we have a few fun activities you should check out as you hack!
- Make a Website, Get Free Boba is a workshop running from 10:45 AM to 12:00 PM. We will teach you how to make a website from scratch, and all attendees will publish a public website—and receive a free drink from Chatime later in the evening!
- We’ll be running a Ping Pong tournament at 1:30 PM, right after lunch! Join to take a break from the grind and win prizes 🙂 We’ll also be running a Smash Bros’ tournament at 3:00 PM!
  - Ping pong and smash will be open for all attendees throughout the hackathon-so feel free to take a break and play some games!
- We’ll have free snacks, drinks, lunch, and dinner throughout the event!

Schedule

All workshops are optional, except for the How to Submit Your Project one!