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 ...

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 ...

Black Codes Hackathon helps bring together people in tech By: Brianna Hamblin Posted 7:51 AM, Feb 16, 2024 and last updated 7:54 AM, Feb 16, 2024 ...

Throughout this 2 ½ day free Hackathon workshop, the young girls between ages 12 to 17 worked in teams with individual mentors to build and design apps, learn to code and present their prototypes ...

It was a self-made hackathon: The product team banded together and suggested several days devoted to nothing but building. What resulted was more than a dozen projects, ranging from back-end ...

Organized by the UCD chapter of Girls Who Code, the hackathon, held on Nov. 17, centered around the three S’s: social impact, sustainability and student life. Excitement filled the air for two and a ...

— Code Liberation (@CodeLiberation) March 13, 2016 The hackathon was also about allowing people to make time to expend some creative energy making something they care about. Nearly all of us go slowly ...

NASA’s Space Apps Challenge recently became the world’s largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries. Meanwhile, many of the features many of us use every day ...

At hackathons, programmers, designers and others hunch over laptops for hours and sometimes days, trying to build useful technological products. Sometimes participants compete for prizes, and ...

Code for the Kingdom was first held in San Francisco in 2013. Since then, the hackathon also has been held in Austin, Seattle and Bangalore, India.

We have fewer than 50 seats left, and they’ll be gone before you can say deep hack mode. The Hackathon is free — no fee to apply or to compete. It’s a thrilling, fun and exhausting ride.