Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are as high as $1 million.

Hackathons are events that bring together computer programmers and engineers to collaborate on developing software, hardware, or other technological solutions within a limited time frame — usually ...

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Lane College students stepped confidently into a national spotlight this past week as they traveled to Charlotte, North ...

Leading software development company, Synthesis, recently held its annual Hackathon, which encouraged employees to build fifteen technology-driven applications and tools within just 24 hours. The last ...

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 ...

Congratulations to all the motivated hackers, coders, devs and designers who took action and secured their spot in the TechCrunch Hackathon at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. We limited ...

As the gospel of Silicon Valley-style disruption spreads to every sector in the economy, so too have the industry’s favorite competitive ritual, hackathons. The contests, where small teams of “hackers ...

One of America’s oldest toy companies, Hasbro, recently gathered 150 developers and created 45 products in just a few days that traditionally could have cost billions of dollars and possibly years of ...

During the past three months, a global series of hackathons emerged to find solutions for Covid-19 related challenges. The first Covid-19 related hackathon emerged in mid-March 2020 in Estonia. Since ...