nwChats: What is a hackathon?
“A hackathon is a 24 to 36 hour invention marathon. We get a whole bunch of people together in a room and we tell them, “build whatever you want”. Over the course of the next day or two, they build amazing inventions, things like self driving cars for under $100, or an app that can tell you if you have a concussion and how bad it is.”

— Nick Quinlan, Major League Hacking (New York, USA)

“A hackathon is basically an event where a bunch of people, usually students, come together to build really cool software and hardware projects from the ground up in a limited amount of time. It’s really high adrenaline, a lot of fun, and you get to meet a community of people that is really passionate about the same thing as you.”

—Kristine Clarin, Hack the North (Ontario, Canada)

“A hackathon is basically a very hype, one-weekend event where where you can just go and innovate and create applications or prototypes of different products. Often, it’s a very, very hype environment where many people strive for the best during that weekend.”

— Juraj Mičko, HackKosice (Košice, Slovakia)

How do hackathons actually… work?
['Rebecca Xie']
['Technology', 'Beginners Guide', 'Hackathons', 'Programming', 'Community']