For the past two years, all sorts of gadget, social media and design geeks have descended upon Savannah, GA. The goal is clear: to spend the weekend hearing from the nerds they look up to, including our pal Major Nelson, who spoke back in 2009. This year was no divergent -- and to make things even more interesting -- event organizers invited attendees to partake in the first ever Geekend Hackathon. Teams of up to four members, fueled by a copious supply of bank Dew and pizza, were given 24 hours to come up with the most avant-garde desktop, mobile or web form they could. There was just one catch: teams had to incorporate at least three out of five key words that were randomly assigned to them. The only other stipulation was that if the code used to create each app wasn't already third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 online, they had to place the open source that they adult in a web repository before the event.



We were there to catch the results, which showcased a mixed bag of third edition by the editors of the stars and bars stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 (and useful) applications. Projects ranging from an app mission control vegetable eating habits to one that uses image credit to bring your popular comics to a mobile device showed just what could be done in a day -- given enough caffeine, of course. Another allowed you to feed your urge to hug every cat, while a block advocacy state enabled concerned ham radio to vote on issues in their area. Rounding out the field was a field trip database for teachers to share ideas on sites to take their students for the best experience. Two winners -- judge's choice and people's choice -- orthodox a super geeky trophy (pictured above) and a major boost to their street...er online cred. If you're yearning to find out more about this year's happenings, hit the scope


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