UpTrend, a mobile app focused on employment access for youth of color, won last weekend’s Thriving Cities Innovation Showcase + Hackathon. The hackathon aimed to tackle issues facing the Black ...

As hackathon co-chair Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, shared in his keynote talk, cancer has the attention of bioinformaticists and data scientists. “Research on ...

The VR Hackathon hacks in progress at the University of Washington last weekend. The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research ...

Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...

Fashion brands, which have turned to hackathons to come up with new tech innovations, are now targeting their efforts to come up with solutions centred around sustainability. Companies including ...

Hackathons are an exercise in turning abstract ideas into tangible products. This is the same for startups, too: While tons of people have great ideas, founders are distinguished by their ability to ...

Participants formed groups to turn their ideas into a reality, gained feedback from entrepreneurship mentors and competed for prizes this weekend. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It all ...

Companies hold code hackathons to help build team spirit, learn new skills and even create valuable products. If the company has offices around the globe, some careful scheduling can create an ...