Welcome to the STC

What's new!

The first Code 4 Cal Hackathon will be held Friday, February 3 to Saturday, February 4. Cash prizes! Free food! Apps and widgets for students, by students. Go to the Competitions page for more info.
Free software for registered students! Go to our Downloads page for Adobe and Microsoft download information.

The votes are in! And the winners in the First STC Web App Competition are:

The Grand Prize ($2,500) - HoneyPot (Team Soragora) - An Android augmented reality application for UC Berkeley to enable visitors (incoming students, parents, alumni, etc.) to take real-time campus, self-guided tours from their mobile devices. This is a demo.
The Runner-Up Prize ($1,500) - Lectify - A Web app where students can keep pace with lecture content by taking a more interactive approach to lectures. The links are to a demo. Here is the app.
The People's Choice Award ($1,000) - HoneyPot (Team Soragora)
The Sustainability Award ($200) - House Me Now - A Web app to help students find apartments in Berkeley. It consists of a mashup of Craigslist and the Google Maps API (with Map, StreetView, and printable directions).
The Implementation Award ($200) - ESB - The next revolution in apartment finding. Here you can find user-contributed reviews and extrapolate for yourself whether or not your potential cribs good. Yelp for apartments!
The Benefit to Students Award ($200) - Open Now - Find out what campus facilities are open right now! You can browse through libraries, dining commons, on-campus restaurants, recreational sports facilities, and buildings.
The Ease of Use Award ($200) - Open Now
The Innovation Award ($200) - HoneyPot (Team Soragora)

Many thanks to all who participated - as developers, judges, staff support, and fans!

UC Berkeley Intellectural Property Rights

The trademarks (i.e., name, logos, indicia, landmarks, slogans, etc.) of the University of California, Berkeley, its intellectual property (IP), which appear on this site or in the mobile applications (apps) submitted for the Student Technology Council (STC) competition are owned by The Regents of the University of California (The Regents). Limited (to the period of the competition) and royalty-free use of the Regents' IP has been granted to the mobile app developers solely for the purposes of demonstrating the functionality of the app. No other use of The Regents' IP is permitted without an agreement signed by an authorized representative of the University of California, Berkeley.

The STC is actively participating in the campus OE IT Design Initiative.
Go to our Initiatives page for more information.

The Student Technology Council (STC) was chartered in 2009 by Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology (AVC-IT) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Shel Waggener as the student technology governance structure. The STC identifies and prioritizes students' information technology needs and opportunities, in support of UC Berkeley's mission.

The STC meets during the academic year on Mondays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm in Earl Warren Hall, just across the street from the main campus at the intersection of Oxford and Hearst. All meetings are open to anyone, unless a Human Resources issue is being discussed. To let us know if you would like to attend, please email student.tech[at]berkeley.edu so we can arrange access to the building. Every attempt is made to post agendas in advance of the meetings. Please go to our Meetings page for more information.

Mission

The STC's mission is to connect, innovate, and sustain in order to meet student technology needs.

In pursuit of this mission, we

Connect the Cal community while providing tools for interdisciplinary collaboration on and off the UC Berkeley campus.
Innovate durable solutions for student technology needs.
Sustain the Council and its impact through transparent governance and high standards of accountability.

Guiding Principles

The STC

Represents the diverse student communities of UC Berkeley.
Strives to distribute resources equitably across campus units.
Is available, accessible, and responsive to students.
Evaluates existing campus technological resources to promote educational and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Advances new, green, and scalable IT solutions.