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>> i left wealth coin when we all parted separate ways. >> what? >> i don't live in san francisco anymore. i have come back to oklahoma to start working on my own projects. >> jackson doesn't give many details. i learned that the team members had different ideas about the direction of the company. simon an stephen are continuing to develop wealth coin without him. >> not a lot of space for clothes and furniture. >> they haven't procured additional funding since leaving boost b.c. >> 10:17 a.m. and i need a coffee. >> from what i can see jackson has no regrets. >> i'm really happy right now wor...

Teachers, nurses and firefightes support prop 51. prop 51 will upgrade libraries, science labs, and classroom technology and relieve school overcrowding creating more opportunity . . . and better learning for students help students succeed vote yes on 51. hey, hackers. how many of you built an awesome project this weekend? >> the hack-a-thon is coming to a close. >> everybody give it up for stockpile. [ applause ] >> robot recycle. up there. >> james's team didn't win

In the coming days they'll find out for sure if any of these investors will back their company. >> where do you think you will be six months from now? >> hopefully in an actual office with employees and moving to new york city. big city, exciting, lots of finance. we will have a place to live and hopefully bigger than where we are staying now. >> separate rooms. >> at the hack-a-thon in berkeley, the goals are more short-term. students here are just trying to make it through the weekend. only half the teams that competed made it to the finish line, and james' team is one of them. now they face...

We will have snacks in 25 minutes.5 minute45 minutes. >> milk tea with boba. >> now it's the hack-a-thon at uc berkeley. >> i'll look up how to set up the parts. >> the communication with the website. >> that are can access from java script. >> james and his team are making headway with their app that allow people to use their phones to vote in political elections. >> it's 11:30 p.m. saturday night. how is everything going? >> we are trying to get authentication. we can make sure one person equals one vote. they don't submit multiple votes on multiple phones. >> i see you lost a partner? >> he...

Before, but when you are in a room and you see people building stuff, of course you can do it. >> the 22-year-old is one of the founders of the student hack-a-thon movement. >> when did this culture evolve? >> about 3.5 years ago, i heard about it and there was about 50 people and it was awesome. at the end of that, we felt the need to start our own. people would come to the big hack-a-thons and say we need to throw this here. it has gotten much more popular. you have 10,000 kids applying for cal hacks. >> it is helping to address the gender gap. >> when i started to go to hack-a-thons, i was ...