How to Use hackathon in a Sentence

hackathon

noun

• The hackathon took place over the course of four days, not five.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• The hackathon went on for almost five days, while the conference lasted a day.
  — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• Designers then worked on the projects part-time for six months,instead of the two or three days common in hackathons.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Netflix did a 48-hour hackathon, for example; Ford did a two-week one.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2018
• His church partnered with Milky Way Tech Hub to sponsor the hackathon.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2024
• Join hackathons, experiment with the latest frameworks and pitch products directly to teams you’d love to work with.
  — Marko Stokić, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• This could include innovation labs, hackathons, or dedicated time for side projects.
  — Mamie Jones, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
• Intel runs an annual hackathon to get its team members to think harder about security and how hackers think.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Adeleke emphasized that future hackathons should involve more researchers and health care workers from other countries.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• What better way to protect critical infrastructure than with a good, old-fashioned hackathon?
  — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The tool, first created in a company-wide hackathon, is available just to Shopify employees for now.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• But a 2021 hackathon sponsored by the Defense Department changed their plans.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
• One of these early adopters of Stretch is Microsoft, which used the robot as part of a company-wide hackathon last summer.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2020
• For example, the engineering recruiting team hosts hackathons while the sales recruiting team hosts events at baseball games.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
• Governments and businesses should work together to host such hackathons to identify the right talent with the right skill sets for their vacancies.
  — Somdip Dey, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• And in the spring, Pichai greenlit a hackathon, allowing employees to build using Google products that have yet to be announced.
  — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
• Internal hackathons or lunch-and-learns are great for sparking interest and uncovering champions.
  — Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
• Their efforts fostered a culture of innovation and teamwork on campus by sparking the university’s first hackathon in six years.
  — Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• These hackathons could give employees a feeling of agency in helping to set the direction of their teams, departments and even the organization as a whole.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Engineers can build their network and get inspired during dedicated meetups, hackathons, sessions and lightning talks.
  — Adi Polak, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• After troubleshooting in the days after the hackathon, the two successfully made the Zeugmatron create its first image.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• Collaboration through hackathons, social gatherings, meet ups, is common.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Chowdhury’s hackathon showed the power of transparency and letting diverse voices into the conversation.
  — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
• Whereas hackathons require the ability to program, AI hackathons simply require the ability to write in plain language.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Ever participated in a company-wide hackathon?
  — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• In total, the inaugural e-voting hackathon turned up at least 18 new vulnerabilities to e-voting and e-poll book systems.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2017
• Start by contracting a blockchain security firm, and if active, schedule quarterly hackathons to uncover new risks to keep your setup protected.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle also run on-site AI training and hackathons.
  — Alena Conley, USA Today, 4 June 2026
• Such cross-pollination of ideas among diverse hackathon participants -- who may not speak the same tongue but who do understand the same code -- unleashes new creative energies.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• In 2025, Fortive's HR team ran hackathons where leaders played consultant roles and team members led the problem-solving.
  — Stacey Walker, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026