Hello Judges, I am writing this at 2:04am after a rollercoaster of a day, so let me tell you about it. Our team of a veteran GrizzHacks hacker, a CUNY BC computer science student, an EMT bioengineering student, and a young High School student located in India proved to be quite the surprise team. Our project started as most do, with excited ideas and hope for what we will build. One of our teammates came up with the amazing idea of simulating an arm and calculating the forces and stresses applied to estimate the amount of force that can be applied. On Saturday morning we got to work, talking about our grand plans and how this will be the best project ever! We foolishly talked about how we would manage our project and keep the code clean. And as the High School student named Dhruv has never written a program in his life, we would give him small bite size tasks to complete. This was going to be the perfect project!
As we started planning, our EMT teammate started thinking through all the equations we would need to calculate in order to make this project work. These equations are the core of the entire project. As we are talking, I hear radio chatter, and then silence... our EMT was on duty and had a 911 call to go to. But he only posted some unfinished calculations before he left. Taking with him all our hopes and dreams as well. We sat around and talked about what we could salvage and what little we could scrap together. But, after a few hours we knew that he was never coming back and that we should probably just quit. The thing that hurt the most about that decision was letting Dhruv down. He was really excited to learn real programming skills and meet new friends, and having to tell him that we are giving up devastated him. GrizzHacks is all about building people up into amazing tech geeks, and we failed in that endeavor.
As the day started to end, I heard a ping. It's a message from Nate, our EMT. He sent a single picture with all of the information we needed to get started. We all rushed to our computers and started hacking. And when I say hacking, I really mean we slapped together the most unorganized mess of code and said, "Good enough". We really got together as a team and in the fastest and most beautiful way possible, we finished our project 3 hours ago. Each team member was able to contribute what they had, even Dhruv was able to pitch in which reignited his passion for tech. With all said and done, I am proud of each member, for their positive attitude and hard work.
P.S. If at all possible, please send Dhruv a T-Shirt. He told me that was the thing he was most excited about. He takes a size Large, and he can be reached at his email: dj1432004@gmail.com
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