Participate in a virtual hackathon to fight COVID blues
Nov 17, 2020
This past weekend (Friday night through Sunday) I took part in my first virtual hackathon. Run by Startup Weekend Silicon Valley Womxn, there were about 80 participants from across the world.
In these 56 hours, I interacted with more people than I had in the last 3 months.
I sent out surveys, cold-called potential customers, spoke with mentors, hackathon organizers, and my fellow participants. I worked through problems that were completely out of my realm of expertise (such as machine learning, sensors…
