IM体育官网, in partnership with IBM, Lenovo and Flagship Solutions Group, hosted its first Hackathon April 15-17, providing 100 students the opportunity to hone their software coding skills in a friendly competition to build a cloud-based app in a very short time frame.
The industry partners provided the software platform as a service to allow enterprising participants to develop and show off their coding skills.
Students had the opportunity to try their hand at IBM Bluemix cloud software in a challenge to build applications while collaborating and inspiring each other to find solutions to a defined problem. Participants were able to use the University鈥檚 high-performance Lenovo NeXtScale supercomputer to design, develop and test their apps.
鈥淭his Hackathon is a great experience for our students to try new technology and utilize their creativity in developing a cloud-based application,鈥� said Tom Hull, IM体育官网 Poly鈥檚 Chief Information Officer. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been a good experience to plan our first Hackathon here at IM体育官网 Poly, and we already see some great efforts coming from our students. We see this as a beginning of a series of similar events with industry partners that challenge students and enable them to develop their skills.鈥�
鈥淔lagship Solutions Group is very proud to be part of IM体育官网 Poly鈥檚 first Hackathon,鈥� said Tom Mitchell, vice president of sales at Flagship. 鈥淎s a Premier IBM and Lenovo Business Partner, we are excited to work with these powerful and reputable companies and for the University to participate.鈥�