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400+ High School Students Attend 24 Hour Hackathon
- eric_khun 13y agoIt's really hard to make understand to high school students the benefits of programming. They often lose interrest after few minutes because they thing that's really trivial when they start reading few lines of code. You guyz made a great job by convincing them
- viclou 13y agoWe need to have more hackathons for high school students!
- jsinger8728 13y agoDefinitely, check out www.sohacks.com!
- shelly1only 13y agoThat's Fantastic! Keep Up the AWESOME WORK GUYS!
- jsinger8728 13y agoThanks! We love HS hackathons!
- sweettea 13y agoIs it actually good to be encouraging hackathons at progressively younger ages? I believe we generally agree here that hackathons are not good for generating maintainable code or encouraging best practices, and teaching high schoolers to pull long hours and not follow good practices is tantamount to teaching them how to burn out of programming later.
- jsinger8728 13y agoIt's one of those things that gets people into coding. It may not be a viable learning strategy, but it's enough to get someone hooked.
- kevinsundar 13y agoWas there today. Can confirm, great hacks, great people. As a highschool student this was the highlight of my month.