The VR Hackathon hacks in progress at the University of Washington last weekend. The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research ...

UpTrend, a mobile app focused on employment access for youth of color, won last weekend’s Thriving Cities Innovation Showcase + Hackathon. The hackathon aimed to tackle issues facing the Black ...

Solana-based crypto platform Pump.fun has introduced its new investment arm called Pump Fund, which will be used to fund ...

As hackathon co-chair Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, shared in his keynote talk, cancer has the attention of bioinformaticists and data scientists. “Research on ...

Hackathons have long been staple events in the Technology Industry since the late 1990’s. A Hackathon is an intensive event that brings together computer programmers like software developers, graphic ...

Hackathons are a time-honored tradition that allow engineers to experiment with new technologies and take action on big ideas they’ve been mulling over for months. But what hackathons actually look ...

Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...

Hackathons are an exercise in turning abstract ideas into tangible products. This is the same for startups, too: While tons of people have great ideas, founders are distinguished by their ability to ...

NM Tech Talks announces a partnership with WESST for the 2026 Desert Dev Lab Hackathon, strengthening New Mexico’s tech ...