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 ...

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 ...

If you can write computer code -- and think you're good at it -- there's no end of opportunities to prove your mastery in a fast-paced hackathon. Pick a project. Race the clock. See if you can create ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we announced our Civic Engagement Launchpad (CELaunchpad), I discussed how Philadelphians aren’t the kind of folks that like to sit around, waiting for someone else to fix things. We’re a city of ...

Aritra Mullick had a midterm Monday at 8 a.m., but was at the UCLA QWER Hacks event the weekend before working on an app that would distinguish recyclable material from trash. Mullick, a first-year ...