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 ...

What did you learn during the Hackathon? When Quality Assurance (QA) teams test an app or service, determining what to test can feel like solving a puzzle. Developers and QA typically collaborate to ...

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 ...

Hackathons are a time-honored tradition that allow engineers to experiment with new technologies and take action on big ideas they’ve been mulling over for months. But what hackathons actually look ...

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 ...

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 ...

A two-day event run internally at Seek began the implementation of dozens of ideas that the company hopes to put into production in the coming weeks and months. Hackathons - short but intensive ...

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 ...

The pandemic has made it almost impossible for organisations to run in-person hackathon events, where groups of developers can work together on an idea, eat pizza and drink beer. Discussing how the ...