How to Use hackathon in a Sentence

hackathon

noun

• The hackathon took place over the course of four days, not five.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Netflix did a 48-hour hackathon, for example; Ford did a two-week one.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2018
• 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
• The tool, first created in a company-wide hackathon, is available just to Shopify employees for now.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• 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
• After troubleshooting in the days after the hackathon, the two successfully made the Zeugmatron create its first image.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Adeleke emphasized that future hackathons should involve more researchers and health care workers from other countries.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• What better way to protect critical infrastructure than with a good, old-fashioned hackathon?
  — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Chowdhury’s hackathon showed the power of transparency and letting diverse voices into the conversation.
  — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
• Engineers can build their network and get inspired during dedicated meetups, hackathons, sessions and lightning talks.
  — Adi Polak, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Recruiting or promoting talent, increasing budgets, and sponsoring hackathons are important to injecting new ideas into a business.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024