Presentations from two days of the iMAGINE Upstate’s Transportation Hack-a-Thon will broadcast live beginning at 7 p.m. June 27 at upstatebusinessjournal.com.
The data and software coding programmers’ presentations will show how groups of participants leveraged public information to help improve transportation issues in the Upstate.
Teams of computer coders and programmers will create projects beginning June 26 related to four categories: infrastructure, parking, bikes and trails or public/mass transit. The effort is intended to spur use of creativity, technology and public records to find solutions to local transportation challenges.
Teams will pitch their work to a panel of judges, who will determine who receives prizes based on the quality of the projects.
Also as part of the weekend-long competition presented by Robert Half Technology, middle school students can attend “Cyber Saturday” from 9 a.m. to noon, which includes lunch. The student event will allow them to meet coding hackers participating in the event and watch an self-driving vehicle. Anyone interested in attending should register for free at bit.ly/upstate-hack-a-thon.
