How to Use hackathon in a Sentence
hackathon
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The hackathon took place over the course of four days, not five.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
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Designers then worked on the projects part-time for six months,instead of the two or three days common in hackathons.
—Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
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Netflix did a 48-hour hackathon, for example; Ford did a two-week one.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2018
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In recent months, many people, most of them young, have flocked to the Bay Area’s AI scene to be closer to the action of hackathons, meetups, fireside chats and happy hours.
—Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
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The tool, first created in a company-wide hackathon, is available just to Shopify employees for now.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 12 July 2023
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The original hackathon took place in 1999 in Berkeley, Calif., and since then the concept has been repeated around the world with some extremely positive results.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
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After troubleshooting in the days after the hackathon, the two successfully made the Zeugmatron create its first image.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
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Holding a virtual hackathon via Instagram, Twitter or TikTok will inspire a brand’s customers and fans to be part of its future.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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Adeleke emphasized that future hackathons should involve more researchers and health care workers from other countries.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
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What better way to protect critical infrastructure than with a good, old-fashioned hackathon?
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
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In total, the inaugural e-voting hackathon turned up at least 18 new vulnerabilities to e-voting and e-poll book systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2017
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Hundreds of bright young technologists have landed in California this weekend for a two-day hackathon — a quintessential start-up contest in which teams of coders race to build software.
—Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
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Such cross-pollination of ideas among diverse hackathon participants -- who may not speak the same tongue but who do understand the same code -- unleashes new creative energies.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
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Chowdhury’s hackathon showed the power of transparency and letting diverse voices into the conversation.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
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Engineers can build their network and get inspired during dedicated meetups, hackathons, sessions and lightning talks.
—Adi Polak, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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Recruiting or promoting talent, increasing budgets, and sponsoring hackathons are important to injecting new ideas into a business.
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
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