BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 6 -- The University of Maryland- Baltimore County issued the following news release:
On the last Saturday in September, the basketball courts in the RAC were filled with teams of a different sort than usual. Hundreds of students from UMBC and other universities huddled around computer screens, talking and typing. The occasion was the 12th annual hackUMBC, a 24-hour competition where students collaborate to create technical solutions to problems that matter to them.
For Sarah Tran, a senior computer science major, it was her third time attending hackUMBC. "It's cool to see how much it has grown and improved," she says. Tran had formed a team with fellow junior computer science major Rebecca Ko, junior computer science ...