'No cash prizes. But our friends in Kiev are calling in, and they'll probably say thanks,'' was the the tagline that drew students and tech professionals to join MIT-Ukraine's first-ever hackathon this past January.The hackathon was co-sponsored by MIT-Ukraine and Mission Innovation X and was shaped by the efforts of MIT alumni from across the world. It was led by Hosea Siu '14, SM '15, PhD '18, a seasoned hackathon organizer and AI researcher, in collaboration with Phil Tinn MCP '16, a research engineer now based at SINTEF [Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research] in Norway. The program was designed to prioritize tangible impact: 'In a typical hackathon, you might get a weekend of sleepless nights and some flashy but mostly useless prototypes. Here, we stretched it out over four weeks, and we're expecting real, meaningful outcomes,'' says Siu, the hackathon director.One week of training, three weeks of project development In the first week, participants attended lectures...
learn more
