{"id":7543,"date":"2017-01-26T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?page_id=7543"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:00:27","slug":"macathon-and-funkathon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/macathon-and-funkathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Macathon and Funkathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-flickr-photoset-id=\"72157664853306491\" data-gallery=\"true\" data-show=\"0\" class=\"gallery-container galleryWidget galleryContainer last no-title\">\n         <script>dataLayer.push({\"event\": \"uaCustomEvent\", \"uaEventCategory\": \"Photo Galleries\", \"uaEventAction\": \"Open Set\", \"uaEventLabel\": \"72157664853306491\"})<\/script>\n         <\/p>\n<p>One hundred fifty-three (153) Macalester students making up 32 teams worked more than 24 hours non-stop during Macalester\u2019s fourth-annual Macathon and its first Funkathon. Students competed for cash prizes and the opportunity for feedback from successful alumni entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, and those in the creative arts. Macathon, Macalester&#8217;s overnight innovation and technology contest with over $2,000 in cash prizes, is a mash-up of a computer hackathon and a business start-up competition where students solve a real-world and relevant problem and build a product (website, interactive application, mobile app). Macalester students form teams of 3-6 participants. The three teams that come up with the most innovative tech-enabled product or service for either the commercial or nonprofit sector will win. To succeed, Macathon teams need a mix of technical, business, design, communication, and general creative skills.<\/p>\n<p>February 23 2016<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred fifty-three (153) Macalester students making up 32 teams worked more than 24 hours non-stop during Macalester\u2019s fourth-annual Macathon and its first Funkathon. Students competed for cash prizes and the opportunity for feedback from successful alumni entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, and those in the creative arts. Macathon, Macalester&#8217;s overnight innovation and technology contest with over [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7543\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}