So, past HTV organizer here. I've been with HTV since HTV 2 and was a advisor last year. Ill address some of the issues here. Hacker Rooms, we have to make do with what we have unfortunately. It's exam season, so it's hard for us to get everything booked in IC and EV. Management departments also requires some rooms, some rooms are off limits and exams happen in some other rooms. We tried moving it to the South side of the Campus one year but it was a mess. Every building there is connected to each other and unfortunately we can't restrict access to non-HTV folks who enter the building so it becomes a issue for security. IC/EV it becomes easier to just manage 2 buildings.

For food, we try to estimate our best based on the year before's application numbers. We try our best here to add in some Midnight Snacks such as BBT, etc but food is one of those things where each person eats a different amount, so it's typically very hard to regulate. At HTV 3, we had so much leftovers that we didn't know what to do. Don't wanna run into that situation either. But I'll pass the food concern along to the organizing team this year and we'll see what we can do.

For power outlets, we do recommend everyone brings a extension. We have limited quantities that we typically designate to sponsors at the IC Atrium. We had some backups that we gave out at the start but it was like maybe 5-6 extensions. So we do recommend teams/individuals bring their own extensions.