The event HackISU will kick off Engineer’s Week at Iowa State on Friday.

HackISU is a competition among Iowa State students to create a software in a limited amount of time. It will begin on Friday at 7 p.m. at CPMI Events Center in Ames.

The event is a hackaton, according to hackisu.com, which is “an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development collaborate intensively on software projects.”

Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. at the entrance of the CPMI Events Center.

The keynote speaker will begin at 7 p.m., which will give instructions for the weekend’s event. The speaker will be followed by dinner at 7:45 p.m.

Coding within the teams begins at 8 p.m.