VIDEO: MSU Inaugural Hack-a-thon Competition

STARKVILLE, Miss.(WCBI) – This weekend more than 200 college students from across the Southeast gathered on Mississippi State’s Campus for a 24 hour competition.

Saturday afternoon, students from 25 colleges and universities commenced the inaugural hack-a-thon.

Students began the project at  1-pm and will work through the night into Sunday.

Participants will make presentations of their individual work, to judges, to determine the winners.

Throughout the hack-a-thon students got to interact with other programmers, they used skills like critical thinking, problem solving and independent researching.

“One thing that there is a misconception about is, this event is for experienced programmers, that’s absolutely not the case. We are very beginner friendly. We have a bunch of workshops for students to learn and we want to encourage you if you haven’t done much programming, come learn and test your abilities,”said Hack State Executive Director Natalie Larkin.

The hack-a-thon was sanctioned by Major League Hacking.