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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With the rise of AI coding tools, software development is easier but also more competitive. "We've lowered the barrier, but ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civic technologists in Philadelphia are working with public servants, journalists and recently-paroled residents, among others, to collaborate on a hackathon that aims to reduce recidivism rates in ...

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 ...