{"id":209661,"date":"2019-04-02T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=209661"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:14:00","slug":"first-ever-computer-club-hackathon-draws-crowd-of-coders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2019\/04\/02\/first-ever-computer-club-hackathon-draws-crowd-of-coders\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Computer Club Hackathon Draws Crowd of Coders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the 精品成人福利在线 University Computer Club had a simple request: it wanted to hold a hackathon.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, March 30, the club got its wish. Nearly 200 people gathered in the Student Center to participate in the Club\u2019s first hackathon, HawkHack \u2013 a 24-hour coding marathon in which computer programmers and others (such as graphic designers and project managers) collaborate intensively on software projects.<\/p>\n

Sammy Samkough, the Computer Club\u2019s project manager, said the idea was to build up the IT community both on and off campus by bringing people together, enabling innovation and driving competition through the creation of new computer programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some amazing things that can come out of a hackathon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Organized by the Computer Club and its faculty advisor Dawei Li, along with College of Science and Mathematics Dean Lora Billings and Department of Computer Science Chair Constantine Coutras, the hackathon drew a packed room of students and other people from the region, who came to create new programs, test their skills and make new friends.<\/p>\n

For some, like Emily Gorelick, it was the first time attending a hackathon. A high school student from Wayne, New Jersey, who has always been interested in math and science, Gorelick said the idea of the hackathon intrigued her, because \u201cyou can make something out of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

精品成人福利在线 sophomore Hope Diamantopoulos, a computer science major who spends part of her summers teaching kids how to code, said the hackathon provided real-world experience that supplemented what she was learning in her classes.<\/p>\n

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