The 12-person team is one of thousands of Hackathon teams worldwide tackling everything from social issues to inclusive design during Microsoft’s annual employee innovation event. Unloop wants to help ...

Code for Oakland was one of the most diverse hackathons I've attended. It was refreshing to see so many women attending that, unlike most hackathons, being a woman was entirely unremarkable.

In June, I attended the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon. I signed up after reading an interview of someone who won Apple’s Swift ...

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 common community Event organizers hope that the hackathon’s participants can continue to meet monthly to code and collaborate.

Is your company interested in code hackathons but unsure of how to plan one? Plan certain things -- but be flexible -- establish goals, encourage collaboration across teams and share results.

They descended on Austin in droves, excited by the promise of BBQ and fresh discoveries in technology. And then they locked themselves inside a room for three days straight. It was a self-made ...

For Code for Philly’s final hackathon of the year, organizers decided to extend the big civic tech push into a whole month. Code for Philly: City Operations is the name of the project, which is ...

The Tribeca Film Institute wants filmmakers to learn to code--and they’re holding a series of free nationwide hackathons to bring HTML5 to the media masses.

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 ...

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 ...

The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and ...