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Team BenSpeaks includes Whit Barrett (right), Jack Quinn (middle), and Wesley Mitchell (left) at Hack MT on Feb. 2, 2025.

HackMT teams code around the clock in 36 hour hackathon

Zavian Hailey, Reporter • February 4, 2025
The competition invites coders to develop apps under the pressure of a ticking clock.
HackMT Showcases Students' Computer Skills

HackMT Showcases Students’ Computer Skills

CIM Digital • January 31, 2022

Story and photo by Matthew Giffin / Contributing Writer After 36 hours of almost no sleep and lots of coding, 60 computer science students sat with their respective teams in anticipation, waiting to...

MTSU computer science Chair Medha Sarkar, left, and then-graduate student Steven Sheffey enjoy competing in one of the Infinity team’s games they created during the 36-hour HackMT in the Science Building’s first-floor atrium in January 2020. MTSU team member and current student Myles Chisholm, right, assists. More than a dozen teams will compete in this year’s event, which will be held Jan. 28-30 at MTSU. (MTSU file photo by Cat Curtis Murphy)

HackMT to Return In Person

CIM Digital • January 26, 2022

The seventh annual HackMt event will have several teams attempting to create new apps, gadgets and web platforms for 36 continuous hours from Jan. 28 to Jan 30. Dr. Joshua “Josh” Phillips, assistant...

Video: Students participate in 36-hour computing, coding challenge for third annual 'Hack-MT'

Video: Students participate in 36-hour computing, coding challenge for third annual ‘Hack-MT’

Sidelines • January 29, 2018

Video by Nigel Shelly / Contributing Writer Photos and story by William Green / Contributing Writer Dozens of students from MTSU and colleges throughout the region gathered at MTSU's Science Building...

Second annual HackMT pushes students to get creative

Second annual HackMT pushes students to get creative

Sidelines • February 7, 2017

Photo and story by Austin Jones / Contributing Writer MTSU hosted the second annual HackMT event last Friday through Sunday in the Science Building. The event was a 36-hour "Hack-a-thon," hosted in partnership...

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