{"id":891,"date":"2017-03-08T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=891"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:12","slug":"sce-students-host-largest-hackathon-ever-held-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2017\/sce-students-host-largest-hackathon-ever-held-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"SCE students host largest hackathon ever held in Ottawa!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        SCE students host largest hackathon ever held in Ottawa!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cuhacking.com\/\">CUHacking<\/a>, held at 杏吧原创 University on the weekend of March 4th-5th, was the first Major League Hacking hackathon in Ottawa. Organized by IEEE 杏吧原创 Student Branch, it was the largest hackathon held in Ottawa with over 800 applicants. 250 students were accepted to attend the event which included students from <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\">杏吧原创 University<\/a>, University of Ottawa, University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo, McGill University, and many more. For 24 hours teams of students worked on innovative engineering projects and tackled challenges posed by company sponsors. Prizes included gift cards, new tech devices, and even interviews at tech companies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sponsors included Martello Technologies, IEEE Ottawa, March Networks, RealDecoy, the School of Computer Science and the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\">Department of Systems and Computer Engineering<\/a>&nbsp;at 杏吧原创 University, Indico, RL Software, Tech Domains, GitHub, and Bloomberg. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/cuhacking.com\/\">CUHacking<\/a> web page for links to the sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUHacking, held at 杏吧原创 University on the weekend of March 4th-5th, was the first Major League Hacking hackathon in Ottawa. Organized by IEEE 杏吧原创 Student Branch, it was the largest hackathon held in Ottawa with over 800 applicants. 250 students were accepted to attend the event which included students from 杏吧原创 University, University of Ottawa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}