Winfo's online hackathon draws record number of projects
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Women in Informatics (Winfo), a student-run organization in the Information School, recently welcomed more than 200 students from across the University of Washington to its 10th annual hackathon. This year’s theme of “Embracing the New” inspired a record number of 59 project submissions. “We were hopeful that we would be able to host the hackathon in person this year, since last quarter was in person,” said Melina Perraut, Winfo’s director of outreach. “But with the rise of Omicron cases and UW’s decision to go online for the start of winter quarter, we made the diffic