February 2, 2017
We're backers of Major League Hacking events, and the new hackathon season is underway. This weekend our kiss cut stickers are on site for Hackatown, a 24-hour competition themed on smart city innovation. Their design uses the Hackatown event name in a mixed thin-and-bold type treatment for maximum branding and also as a foundation for the Montreal skyline that soars to the top of this custom shape.
Hackathons are a typically daylong or weekend-long coding challenges where participants are allowed to work on their projects, before team project presentations and a closing ceremony. At a hackathon, teams code, design and prototype a project that's created only during the event. At the end of the coding period, teams take fives minutes to present before a jury. The submissions are usually a demonstration of the project and a plan for the future of the project.
This time around, teams will be generating ideas for city innovation so that urban spaces can become more sustainable, more connected and more usable. We wish them the best of luck, and we want to thank all of the organizers, mentors, judges and fellow sponsors. Events like Hackatown take a village, and we love know that our village is getting together to celebrate entrepreneurship and to create solutions for the issues facing our cities.