 We're here at Calhacks 5.0, here at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, where over 2,000 students from across the nation are creating projects ranging from autonomous drones to media generators. Stanford freshman Vivian Audang crossed the Enmi lines for her first ever hackathon. She says just a few years ago she didn't know how to use Google. Now, she's competing at the world's largest collegiate hackathon. I was pretty lucky to have a teacher introduce me to it and show me that you can learn all this stuff, put it on your own online, and it was just really meaningful to me. Learning how to code, she says, is learning how to be resourceful. For others like Gabriela Rodriguez from Florida International University, the hackathon is about challenging herself. Her team is working on a project involving assistant chatbots. And it was because I wanted to get out of my conference room as well. I'm a biomedical engineer. I'm not a computer inside, so I have a presence, so it's kind of like getting the full experience before I get out of college. Fifty judges from tech companies and firms of all sizes spent two hours judging student projects, which they've worked on for the past 36 hours. We're in a foreign world where anybody can make anything and do things together, and it's great to have all these students here who are building this, it's an opportunity for them to see what we're doing in the Bay and for us to meet them. It's a fantastic experience. Though not everyone is a winner, students came up with innovative ideas and found ways to quickly implement them using technology for the future. Thamas-Manglania for CalTV News.