Carnesale Commons at UCLA - 251 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA 90095. If you're a UCLA student, it's the building right above BPlate. See you there!!

Anyone who is 18 or older, a member (or ally) of the LGBTQIA+ community, and enrolled in a postsecondary academic institution is invited to participate! The event will be at UCLA in Los Angeles, so please keep travel in mind.

You can sign up as a team of two to four members. but make sure that all your team members submit an application! if you don’t have a team before the event, don’t worry! we will help you find fellow hackers once the event starts :^)

Absolutely anything you want — websites, apps, UI, you name it! We encourage you to create a product that positively impacts the LGBTQIA+ community or any other underrepresented group in tech.

We are bored with your usual hackathon prizes, and so we've decided to shake things up for QWERHacks this year!
All too often, prizes end up being single large objects that you might already have or don't really need, like an extra monitor or an air fryer or something. Instead, we've made 3 packs of cool and related prizes, sourced from queer small buisnesses where possible, that you can win!
Furthermore, we know that your team might weight the packs differently, so we're giving winning teams their choice of the 3 packs in the tracks they won! The first place team gets to pick which pack they want, then the second place team gets to pick from the remaining two, and so on.
Finally, each team member will get all listed items, but your team needs to agree on one pack that you'll all get. If you can't agree, we'll pick for you!
Don't worry if this seems a bit complicated, we'll be around to explain it more at the event.

It's free, babey!

Yes! We welcome anyone who supports our mission of increasing the visibility of our community in tech :)

Go here or click the apply button up above! Just fill out the Google form and you are good to go.