Hack. edu: Examining how college hackathons are perceived by student attendees and non-attendees

J Warner, PJ Guo - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
College hackathons have become popular in the past decade, with tens of thousands of
students now participating each year across hundreds of campuses. Since hackathons are …

Crisis innovation: Leveraging virtual hackathons for rapid ideation

T Yokoi, N Obwegeser, M Beretta - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The COVID-19 crisis brought about an unprecedented wave of interest into rapid ideation
and innovation. Among others, the pandemic triggered a series of collaborative innovation …

Understanding hackathons for science: Collaboration, affordances, and outcomes

EPP Pe-Than, JD Herbsleb - … 2019, Washington, DC, USA, March 31 …, 2019 - Springer
Nowadays, hackathons have become a popular way of bringing people together to engage
in brief, intensive collaborative work. Despite being a brief activity, being collocated with …

The collegiate hackathon experience

BA Kos - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Collegiate hackathons are marathon-style, project building competitions where students can
learn computing in an informal environment, build community, network with members of the …

How to support newcomers in scientific hackathons-an action research study on expert mentoring

A Nolte, LB Hayden, JD Herbsleb - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Time-bounded events such as hackathons have become a global phenomenon. Scientific
communities in particular show growing interest in organizing them to attract newcomers …

Virtually hosted hackathons for design research: Lessons learned from the International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) challenge 2022

DN Ege, M Goudswaard, O Nesheim… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) Challenge is a virtually hosted
hackathon for Engineering Design researchers with aims of: i) generating open access …

Hackathons: what do engineering educators think about it?

N Mehta, SS Bist, P Shah - Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose With past studies indicating a lack of skill development in engineering education,
there is a need for new pedagogical tools that are application and skill-oriented. Hackathons …

Pros and Cons of running educational Hackathons in a gender-neutral fashion

Y Kovaleva, A Happonen… - Proceedings of the Third …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Our work builds knowledge on gender-neutral hackathons in educational context.
Hackathon itself is an intensive project-based event, requiring participants to make results in …

Stimulating and maintaining students' interest in Computer Science using the hackathon model

J Mtsweni, H Abdullah - The Independent Journal of Teaching and …, 2015 - journals.co.za
Computer Science (CS) enrolments at higher education institutions across the globe remain
low in comparison to other disciplines. The low interest in CS is often attributed to students' …

Reappropriating hackathons: the production work of the CHI4Good day of service

E Porter, C Bopp, E Gerber, A Voida - … of the 2017 CHI Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The popularity of hackathons has increased as technology pervades more facets of our
lives. Originally designed for programmers, hackathons are now being appropriated by new …