VCU holds hackathon for development health-related technology

Katherine Boller Contributing Writer VCU held its third annual health hackathon this weekend at the College of Engineering’s East Hall on the Monroe Park Campus. HealthHacks is a collaborative event in which students with different technical backgrounds come together to solve problems — this year’s theme was “Assistive Technology and Prosthetics” in a collaboration with […]

VCU students win first corporate hack-a-thon hosted on campus

Jackson Grigsby Contributing Writer Four VCU sophomores won the Power the Future design-a-thon, hosted Oct. 20-21, competing against students from around the world. The event — hosted by Dominion Energy in collaboration with the College of Engineering — was the first hack-a-thon led by a corporation as opposed to VCU faculty. About 120 students from […]