Electronics and computer engineering students Bryan Thornbury and Ethan Chow won first place in USC’s HackSC competition on March 9. The duo beat out student teams from UC Berkeley and USC by developing a clone of Flappy Bird, an extremely popular game. The students finished in 36 hours, utilizing virtual reality and crowd interaction to interface with the game.
Thornbury and Chow have also been part of the teams that won in Cal Poly Pomona’s own HackPoly and were awarded Best Use of Algorithms at MIT’s hackMIT event.