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 ...

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 ...

Adelle Lin helped organize the Code Liberation Women’s History Month Hackathon, which wrapped up this past weekend. It was a four-day hackathon held over two weekends for women and non-binary people. ...

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 ...

About 100 student hackers participated in the first-ever UC Davis hackathon to solve a problem using different technology tools to aid marginalized gender identities. Organized by the UCD chapter of ...

A hackathon does not mean hacking a system — it’s creating something people can use. In the course of a weekend, students can learn a semester’s worth of programming. “This hackathon, I’m looking ...

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’re in the home stretch to the TC Hackathon going down at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. If you have what it takes to compete against some of the best hackers, developers, engineers ...