Facebook is a place for families. We recently held our 4th annual Facebook Family Hackathon at our Menlo Park headquarters, welcoming approximately 950 guests from the community including kids, grandkids, and nieces and nephews. The day was filled with exciting opportunities to work on fun projects, solve problems, and come up with new ideas.

After Aparna kicked off the event with a warm welcome, the crowd started hacking away!

The day was filled with activities including building with Goldieblox, Osmo and Magna Tiles. Our coding lab with Tynker challenged hackers to solve JavaScript puzzles and design games using Minecraft modding.

We also gave guests an inside look at Area 404, Facebook’s hardware development laboratory where teams have access to the space to innovate and build - for example, our 6 degrees of freedom cameras were prototyped in the space. And guests fully immersed themselves in VR experiences through Oculus Rift demos.