Yesterday was the start of Hack Day!

What’s Hack Day you might ask? Only one of the top 20 “Ideas to Steal” according to Information Week!

AG Interactive’s IT group holds an annual “Hack Day,” during which normal operations at the e-card company are suspended for 24 hours and the staff works on off-the-grid ideas.

Cross-functional teams generate prototypes of their ideas and present them for judging by peers and senior executives. Each year, several ideas are selected to become IT initiatives

So not only is Hack Day a super cool event that I was psyched to be participating in this year – but it also appealed to the foodie in me and they provided us with LOTS AND LOTS of food to keep us fueled, and working hard!

My favorite sign of the day:

Breakfast:

After breakfast – we got down to work, putting our ideas into “pretty presentation” form.  Have any of you ever used Sliderocket? (Doesn’t that sound dirty?? ) – it’s a super cool program, very similar to PowerPoint, but with a LOT cooler graphics/functions!  Try it out if you get a chance!

By 11:30 – it was time for more food (I swear there was work done in between breakfast and lunch! ):

My plate:

Everyone laughed when I set my plate down – because they thought my cucumbers/veggie sandwich looked like a face!

Do you see it???

As for the rest of the day – it looked a little something like this…

Tucked away in a conference room:

Buried in work, with lots of snack and caffeine to keep us going! 

Our team name was Team Jem.  You know – like Jem and the Holograms?    We are TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS!

Ang, lovin’ Hack Day 

Our idea – coming to life!

Ken, a great team player for being the only guy on our team – a little tired of all the estrogen in the room, perhaps?

While some people stay over night, and work the full 24 hours straight – our team was able to wrap everything up by about 5:30!  WOOOHOOO!  I could go home and see my husband and puppers!

Well – not without stopping to get some dinner first of course! 

They provided us with a huge pasta bar (seriously – how kick @$$ is that?!) – so I got some pasta, with plain sauce, and Italian sausage and peppers:

and a salad (which lets face it – was an after thought because I was WAY too excited about the pasta!)

Today – we have exactly 3 minutes to present our work – and I’m one of the presenters – GAH!   I need to stand up and talk the senior board, and over 100 other people!  WISH.ME.LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!