HackUPC is one of the largest student hackathons in Spain, organized annually by the students of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona.
My first attendance in 2022 offered a window into how a major student-run hackathon operates at scale. We shipped StarBars — an open-source Android app that computes a fair midpoint from everyone’s location and recommends nearby bars — an experience that later informed my work co-founding and organizing HackUDC in A Coruña.
