PowerUp Reentry: A Digital Solutions Day is a three-day hackathon that aims to help break the cycle of recidivism. Put forth by the Reentry Project — an alliance of 15 newsrooms including our sister ...
A vigorously typing student scrambled to put the finishing touches on their code. Tick, tock. Another student rushed to the judges’ table, frantically gesturing towards their screen. And – ding. As ...
Five all-women teams competed in the University’s first “Code Ada Hackathon” on Saturday, and were given eight hours to build anything they wanted using standard computer science tools, like python, ...
It was a programming class filled with massive barriers. The students had no internet, personal computers or homework tools besides old-fashioned paper and pencils. Many came from low-income ...
Rushing through buggy demos in pizza-fueled crazes was not cutting it for Code for Philly. So when time rolled around for the City as a Service Hackathon (or CaasH, as it was known on social media), ...
43North is launching its next Code:Buffalo Hackathon, a virtual hackathon where people can participate from home – hence the current version being referred to as Code:Buffalo Hackathon @ Home. This ...
Hackathons have always been creative. They remind me of spontaneous music jams - only instead of drummers and saxophonists, we gather as product managers, UI designers and coders. Sometimes people ask ...
More than 200 students from 33 universities gathered Saturday afternoon to attend HackNY‘s fall Hackathon at New York University‘s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Fourteen companies, ...
High school sophomore Teja Deonarine wants to talk to sharks. Senior Gianni Small wants to build a better eBay. And seventh-grader Bronwyn Chochinov wants to help girls express themselves through ...
The Tribeca Film Institute, best known for its annual film festival, wants to teach filmmakers how to code. Starting on December 8, Tribeca is launching the Tribeca Hacks, a nationwide series of ...
Coming up in June, Techstars, 43North, and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus will be hosting Code:Buffalo – a weekend-long hackathon where top tech talents will compete against one another to build ...