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Problem, yeah. you know, you'll feel much more pressure. you feel the world closing in on you, but we'll be able to finish in time. >> these kids have been staring at computer screens for 24 hours, and they're starting to develop some interesting projects. >> did you just come up with this idea here? >> yeah. >> seriously? >> yep. >> i'm blown away, and i just can't believe that at all hours of the day and night, these kids are here working. >> there's something about the supportive environment and the energy here. i think it's just that a lot of these people haven't built something before, bu...

So what you saw is that people would come to these, like, one or two or three big hackathons, and then go back to their schools and say "we need to throw this here," so this whole thing has blown up and gotten much more popular, and you'll have, like, 10,000 students apply for something like cal hacks. >> the hackathon movement is also helping to address the gender gap in the tech world. >> definitely when i started going to hackathons, i was very much in the minority. >> how does it feel to be one of really few women? >> oftentimes, you feel a little bit like people are kind of confused on wh...