Episode 33: How to Win a Hackathon

An episode of the How Your World Works podcast, hosted by Popular Mechanics / Panoply, titled "Episode 33: How to Win a Hackathon" was published on September 23, 2016 and runs 28 minutes.

September 23, 2016 ·28m · How Your World Works

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If you read the October 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics, you may have noticed a section of the Breakthrough Awards devoted to competitors from Major League Hacking, the competition circuit for college and high school-aged hackathons. And you may also have noticed that Danny Yim and Jake Kaplan of the Bergen County Academies in New Jersey took home a prize at their hackathon for making one soldering iron to rule them all. And then, if you're still with me, you probably found yourself wondering: What's a hackathon actually like? What's it like solving problems when you haven't slept and have nothing...

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