UGA Computer Science senior David Kan and Data Science senior Jasmine Nguyen won the Most Creative Hack award at Cal Hacks 13.0, UC Berkeley’s flagship hackathon and one of the largest collegiate hackathons in the world, held in San Francisco in late October. Their project, GovTok, turns 311 civic reporting into a short-form video platform. Taking inspiration from TikTok and Instagram Reels, GovTok lets residents report a local problem, like a pothole or a broken streetlight, by recording up to a 20-second video and optionally adding a short description. The platform does everything else: it automatically removes personally identifiable information, classifies the issue, and pinpoints where it is. Local governments can then “stitch” a reply video that shows the problem fixed, so residents see the result of their report directly. In a form of “pothole politics” officials earn public trust by visibly responding, and residents get a faster, more direct way to improve their communities.