Carey Hackathon

Main navigation Johns Hopkins Legacy Online applications Faculty Directory Experiential studying Career assets Alumni mentoring program Util Nav CTA CTA Breadcrumb Carey Hackathon Learning is a critical business. Just ask any Carey diploma candidate. But studying can be a lot of fun. Just ask any of the 35 Baltimore public high school students who took part in the third annual HackCarey coding workshop held December 10 at the business school’s Harbor East campus. The college students from metropolis colleges similar to Coppin Academy and Western were given the task of utilizing HTML and JavaScript to develop a variation of the favored online game Flappy Bird. Carey college students, including members of the varsity’s Innovation Factory membership, and representatives of co-sponsors Capitol One and Baltimore-based expertise firm Mindgrub served as mentors and instructors. Carey’s Bradley Waters (MBA, Enterprise Risk Management ’17), Mauro Gurdulich (Global MBA '18), and Alyssa Perez (Global MBA ’18) helped lead the organizing of the daylong event. Waters advised the technology information web site Technical.ly/Baltimore that the hackathon is based on the thought “You solely be taught by doing.” HackCarey is the brainchild of Dan Givol, who graduated final June with a Global MBA diploma. Now a product supervisor at Capitol One, he returned for the third edition to supply steering and encouragement to the highschool students. The hackathon was a spotlight of his time as a Carey student, Givol stated in a Carey Business article in regards to the 2015 event: “This was by far my favourite expertise at Carey. I’m very pleased with it. Business is about individuals. You get to work together with them, and also you get to connect on a personal level. We have 50 folks right here connecting with their inner nerd.” Photo credit score Technical.ly Baltimore. Posted 100 International Drive