Deepak Ramalingam
On January 21 at 6 a.m.,125 people across the country and the world put their heads down and dove into three full days of coding. They were participating in BadgerHacks, a hackathon organized by three UW-Madison Computer Sciences freshmen and entirely run by UW-Madison students with the support of their advisor, Dr. Hobbes Legault.
When the 72 hours were up, 35 valid projects were submitted, and five winning teams were chosen. Participants could create their own individual project or work on a team of up to four people. The winning projects ranged from topics such as early detection of Parkinson’s Disease to making slideshow creation easier.