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.

What is a hackathon and why should you care? A hackathon is a gang activity. It’s an event where lots of people of the same mindset form teams to solve a problem in technology. Participation may occur ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Hackathons bring together computer engineers to rapidly solve technical problems. Now, they are ...

When Microsoft program manager Beatris Mendez Gandica decided to start her own nonprofit earlier this year, she knew she’d need help to get it off the ground. Growing up in Venezuela, Mendez Gandica ...

Events where groups of people come together to create or improve software using large data sets are usually called hackathons. As health data researchers who want to build and maintain public trust, ...

Call it data science for good — or for the love of the game. For Philly Tech Week 2022 presented by Comcast, Freya Systems intended to create an event that would cause people to think differently ...