Hackathons are air-and-light deprived environments, where time and space are continually closing in. I can’t overstate the effect that having a great team had on my psyche. By Anne Gordon (Founder, Kinderloop) I am not your typical hackathon attendee. I am a woman, over 30, with kids, and not even two months ago, I was a [...]
Posts Tagged "Hackathon"
How to Get Kids Interested in Technology with Activities, Games and More
April 3, 2013 – 9:00 am
Fun apps, shows and toys are available for kids to learn to code. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With the success of young programmers like Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, parents are encouraging their kids to learn to code at a younger age. Now parents can encourage [...]
Finalist from Fashion Hackathon in NYC Shares 5 Lessons
March 25, 2013 – 6:00 am
Hackathons are a a great learning experience – and a great bonding experience – and I’d encourage every founder to attend one. Don’t worry if you’re a non-technical founder; more than half the attendees at the fashion hackathon were as well. By Carrie Mantha (Founder & CEO, Indira) This past month, my co-founder and I [...]
Visualizing the Future of Government
March 19, 2013 – 8:00 am
I am struck by how new and potentially game-changing data visualization is for public servants. By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) The future of government is one of increased transparency and collaborative problem-solving. What gets us there is creating a culture of participation, in which citizens across industries contribute their expertise to help solve [...]
A Hackathon Is A Microcosm Of A Startup (Everyone Hacks!)
January 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
At my next hackathon, the biggest change I will make in my approach is to start with a more reasonable scope of project. By Alyssa Ravasio (Student, Dev Bootcamp) This weekend, I learned that a hackathon is a microcosm of a startup. Initially, both are just ideas. As much as you want to build the [...]
How I Learned To Code
January 21, 2013 – 6:00 am
It requires a commitment of putting your life on hold. It was a right time for me, because I had achieved enough proficiency that I knew I could build. Being able to do well at Hacker School has validated for me that I have been initiated to this path of software engineering. By Jane Wang [...]
Hackathons, Climate Change And Women – Hacking For Cleantech
December 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
The intention of creating a hackathon that combines climate change and mobile apps technology is to infuse a cause into the rebelliousness of the DC crowd around an issue that is gaining more financial traction: sustainability and climate change. By Stephanie Sheridan (Founder, IPAI L3C) Hackathons attract teams of ambitious developers, designers and biz dev-ers [...]
Building “Get TEKD” At AT&T Social Good Hackathon To Find The Right Class For You To Learn New Technology
November 7, 2012 – 2:59 pm
The trick to increasing the underrepresented groups in tech is to make sure they get an invitation to be part of the tech community. By Jennifer Arguello (Co-Founder, Latino Startup Alliance) “Ever want to start programming or understand startups more and just not know where to start?” That was the line I used to pitch [...]
Winning Startup Weekend Sofia With A Raspberry Pi
September 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
We pulled off a killer demo during the final presentation for people to turn a normal light bulb on and off through their phones. By Bogdana Rakova (Computer Science Student, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski) Everything began last Friday evening when I pitched an idea related to hardware at the local Sofia Startup Weekend [...]
Partner Events: NFC Tapped Hackathons (New York, San Francisco And Boston)
September 28, 2012 – 7:00 am
Connect with some of the most influential people in mobile and NFC at one of the upcoming TAPPED NFC Hackathons: NFC Hackathon – New York (October 6-7) NFC Hackathon – San Francisco (October 20-21) NFC Hackathon – Boston (October 27-28) Near Field Communications (NFC) is a technology that lets devices and things talk to each [...]
