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Portal's winning widgets

Tuesday, November 21, 2017 by Vivien Pham

Hackfest – an annual hackathon hosted by Waterloo’s Portal team, which challenges students to create additional widgets that will enhance the Portal app experience. Usually, this event starts and finishes in one day. However, this year the hackathon went on for ten days straight!

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SYDE Chicks rule the roost at Portal Hackathon

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 by Rachel Isabelle Hammermueller

Ever had an idea that would change student life at UWaterloo? Every year dozens of students strive to leave their mark on campus, including the competitors who vie to build a new widget for the student portal. This year, nearly 40 students gathered at the Portal Hackathon to put their skills and creativity to the test.

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Student hackers play with Portal

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 by Aleks Bahdanovich

Peoples Choice Award - Team Waterloo Rideshare

UWaterloo students broke the Student Portal once again during an October 17 hackathon.

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Hacking their way to success

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 by Kayla Dixon

UWaterloo students broke the University's student portal - in a good way.

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Pokemon Masters

Thursday, October 9, 2014 by Taylor Neufeld

Open Pokemon from left to right: Kevin Nguyen, John Liu, Edward Yang, Jack Gao

UWaterloo students place in the top ten at Hack the North

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Cracking hackNY

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Taylor Small

Engineering students’ topical Rob Ford game wins ‘Funniest Hack’

In just 16 hours, third-year Systems Design Engineering students Chris Ngan and Nick Mostowich created an online platform game, “Crackathon” featuring embattled Mayor Rob Ford. “The development process consisted of a lot of Red Bull,” Nick said of their experience at hackNY’s annual spring hackathon.

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newRoots for new Canadians

Thursday, April 10, 2014 by cnwiraha

UWaterloo grad student’s life-changing app won $25,000 in national hackathon

Carlos Saavedra, a student in Waterloo’s Master of Digital Experience Innovation program at the Stratford Campus, won the first Canadian Open Data Experience, a 48-hour hackathon that challenged participants to create an application that would better the lives of Canadians. Carlos’s invention was awarded the $25,000 grand prize and also won the $1,000 fan favourite prize, as chosen by Canadians in an online poll.

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International hackathon win

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 by Jude Doble

Second-year uWaterloo students conquer 27-hour hackathon

Second year students Rudi Chen and Shida Li have emerged victorious from the 27-hour Nokia Imaging Hackathon in Lund, Sweden. The Computer Science and Software Engineering students, respectively, brought their idea of a Smart Resizing app to life alongside 10 other experienced teams of developers from all over the world.