If you can write computer code -- and think you're good at it -- there's no end of opportunities to prove your mastery in a fast-paced hackathon. Pick a project. Race the clock. See if you can create ...

It was a programming class filled with massive barriers. The students had no internet, personal computers or homework tools besides old-fashioned paper and pencils. Many came from low-income ...

NASA’s Space Apps Challenge recently became the world’s largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries. Meanwhile, many of the features many of us use every day -- ...

I like to spend most of my weekends taking workout classes with friends, exploring new restaurants or vegging out on the couch with a movie on. The past weekend, however, was unique. Instead of the ...

Higher education institutions are finding that hackathons — events inviting students to participate in science, technology, engineering and math challenges — are a great way to connect coding to ...

Learn how to win a hackathon with four practical lessons on product vision, AI coding tools, tech choices and pitching, from ...

IIT Madras BS learner Shreyansh Gupta ranked 278th among 46,719 participants at the Google for Developers × Hack2skill PromptWars 2026 hackathon, placing him in the top 0.6%. His solution for ...

Hackathons have always been creative. They remind me of spontaneous music jams - only instead of drummers and saxophonists, we gather as product managers, UI designers and coders. Sometimes people ask ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. ‘Hacking’ is creative problem solving, commonly through emerging technology and often at short fast-moving, caffeine-assisted events. The Hackathon ...