Event Logistics

SEE YOU IN LOS ANGELES

Thank you for your interest in joining us for Bruin Entrepreneur’s Designathon at UCLA: Horizons 2025. We are excited to have you join us. Designathon is a beginner-friendly program providing an opportunity to undergraduate students to learn and utilize design skills to create unique and creative solutions to real-world scenarios, and get the chance to explore everything from UX and prototyping to typography and layouts.

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WELCOME TO HORIZONS

Horizons is the theme for Designathon at UCLA 2025 promoting inclusivity and diversity of design with the invitation to illuminate the future. Horizons encourages our designers to explore the unordinary and challenge the status quo. Design thinking helps us address problems, using innovation to contribute to our quickly developing society. By placing importance on empathy, equity, inclusivity, diversity, and curiosity, we shape design to be whatever we need and dream it to be. This allows us to place an emphasis on a new perspective in design that proves worthwhile. No matter how you tackle design thinking, we’ll still see you illuminate the future at Horizons.
Participants agree to follow the UCLA Student Group Conduct Code regarding Facilities and Activities Regulations. Failure to comply with these regulations will subject participants to removal from the program.

DATE & TIME OF EVENT

Horizons will take place on Sunday, May 25, 2025 from 9AM to 4PM PST on UCLA’s Campus, with check-in beginning at 8:30 AM PST. Horizons will take place in the Bruin Reception Room. Please note that Horizons is an exclusively-in-person event.

TEAMS FORMATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Students are encouraged to work with each other and teams can be up to 4 participants. Teams sign up will begin a day after applications close. If students are applying in teams, each individual must submit an application.
Designathon is a beginner-friendly program that welcomes undergraduate students without prior design experience to learn and apply design skills in solving real-world problems, including UX, prototyping, typography, and layouts! All applications will be considered, regardless of prior design background.

EVENT LOCATION

Vista will take place in the Bruin Reception Room on UCLA grounds (2043 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095).
Parking is available in Parking Lots 4 or 7. Guests who do not have UCLA Parking may purchase a day parking pass for visitors in Lots 4 or 7.
Lots 4 and 7 are located in the center of campus and participants may follow the UCLA Map at map.ucla.edu to the venue location.

BOUNCE

Bounce is the official communication platform connecting participants, mentors, judges, and staff in one place. Users may log in at designathon2024.slack.com after an invite has been sent out.
All Vista Users will utilize #announcements for any up-to-date information, news, etc. from our staff.
Participants will utilize their team channels (#team-name) to connect with their group.
Mentors will utilize #mentors for communications from our staff regarding workshops and individualized mentoring sessions.
Judges will utilize #judges for communications from our staff regarding judging windows, score submissions, etc.

CHECK IN

Participant check in will start at 8:30 AM on May 25, 2025 at the doors of the Bruin Reception Room. Participants are asked to check in at this time, no later than 9:00 AM for the Opening Plenary.
Participants will be asked to bring a BruinCard (if a UCLA Student) or another form of identity (School ID/Government-issued ID) as well as the mobile digital ticket. Horizons Staff will be checking-in participants.

REQUIRED ITEMS

Participants are asked to bring the following for the Vista Experience:
  • ID, for Check In
  • Laptop
  • Chargers
  • Pen & Paper (or equivalent)
  • Reusable Water Bottles
  • Snacks

WIFI

To access Bounce, research materials, and other web/cloud-based programs (i.e., Figma), attendees may access the following WiFi platforms based on their roles:
● eduroam: For Horizons Participants and Staff. Users will sign in with the following credentials:
       ○ Username: “NetID@schoolname.edu” as provided by their institution
■ UCLA Students will use their “LogonID@ucla.edu”
       ○ Password: The password students at their institution use to sign into their portals can be inputted here.
■ UCLA Students will use the password they set up on IAm and use to access MyUCLA, CCLE, etc.
● UCLA_WEB: For Horizons Mentors, Judges, and other attendees who have trouble accessing eduroam. UCLA_WEB requires no authentication and is accessible for users not affiliated with UCLA. A_WEB".

LAND GRANT ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Designathon at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

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