Science Hack Day(SHD) is a two-day-all-night event where anyone excited about making weird, silly or serious things with science comes together in the same physical space to see what they can prototype within 24 consecutive hours.

The first day of SHD started with gust speaking. The speakers are from different field of study and shared some useful link of how to find scientific information online. Then is the lighting pitch, which the attendants could go to the stage for sharing their idea and looking for teammates or introduce your professional field and let others find you. I attended the SHD with an idea in mind. However, everyone else's idea sound very ambitious and feasible compared to my idea so I was hesitated and too shy to go on stage. I watched the line getting shorter and shorter, and final got to the last person. "Whatever, just go!" I told myself at the last sencode and went to the end of the line and waited for my turn.

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After 1 minute my turn came, the host passed down the mic and I walked toward the stage anxiously. "Have you ever fell in love with someone, but didn't dare to tell them?" I paused for a second, stared at the audience and went "What if Neuroscience could help? I want to build the device that will sense your brain wave and detect if you like a person or not. If you like the person, this device will send a signal to the person you like. If you are neuroscientist or data analyst, please help me build it, thank you." I walked down of the stage with smile on my face; I were proud of myself by giving a pitch of my idea.

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Ater the pitch talking, people broke up into small group who interested in the same project or went found the group they interested in. I was almost ready to go find some random group because I didn't think people would interested in my idea and willing to join my group. As I was thinking, a guy who called Tim came up to me and said: " are you the one who want to do the love alarm thing?" I looked at his eyes with appreciation and said " Yes, that's me!" It turned out that he became on of my teammates later on.

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Nathalia and Jamie wanted to join my group as well so we formed a group of four, include me, and started our hacking journey. First thing first was to figure what hardware we could have to start building our device. We reached out to the guest speaker who gave us a talk about human-robot interaction and he introduce us a device called Muse, which can detect brain wave. However, noone in the room has the device so I suggested go back to CCA and check out some sensor from the Hybrid Lab so we could get started.

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However, the Hybrid Lab was not open during Saturday. Since I'm the monitor of the Hybrid Lab, I have access to the lab so I brought my teammates into the Hybrid Lab and looked for sensors that we need. At the same time, I was sending a message to my manager to ask if it's okay for us to take the sensor out during the weekend because I didn't want to cause any trouble to her. We didn't got response from my manager until we stood out of the Hybrid Lab and she said:" It's is not okay, you are not supposed to take anything from the lab during the weekend. However, it you have the parts then just take it. Don't do this again." We were right in front of the closed door of Hybrid Lab and hesitating if we should return the sensors back because I didn't want to lost my job. Then Nat asked me:" It's your call. Is your job more important to you or the Hack day?" I thought about it for a while then went:" THe Science Hack Day is more important." Then we carried all the sensors with us, risked my job in school, and went on the way back to GitHub.

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I have to say I was a good move because we without the sensors we stole from Hybrid Lab, we wouldn't able to do anything.The process of building the device was fun, especially when you did it with your friends. We were each researching how to use one particular sensor and then combined all the work into the save Arduino files. The funny part is our muscle sensor didn't as sensitive as if we put it on cheeks, so we ended up stick the muscle sensor on to Nat's cheek and came up with a cheese science theory which is if you keep staring at someone and can't help laughing while your heartbeat is racing, that means you like that person. Sounds not rational but IT IS SCIENCE HACK DAY! We got a chance to do anything even if it's silly or making nonsense! I liked the spirit of enjoying what you are doing and not afraid of failing in SHD. Surprisingly our team got the "Best Dating App" Award at the end.

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