by Zachary Gurwitz ('18) "Invent: YU," a hackathon founded by MTA alumnus and current YC student Aaron Landy ('13), took place on campus this past Saturday night through Sunday, enabling YU college, and some high school, students to participate. A hackathon is a twenty-four hour event where high school and college students from around the country come together, pull an all-nighter, and compete to come up with the best innovative, technological idea and make them into reality by using equipment supplied by companies such as Major League Hacking (MLH) and GitHub that want to foster creativity in computer science at educational institutions around the world. Throughout the night and the following day, there were many mini-events besides designing the main projects, such as Nerf wars, drone racing, hacking into "enemy" websites, and much more. At the end of the event, all the participants gathered together for the awards ceremony and showcased their creations. There were prizes like free expensive computer hardware, new video games, and others for producing the best work in accordance with many different criteria, such as the best use of Amazon web services, best device privacy hack, and, of course, the overall best projects. Among the winners were the following projects: Tour Me, an Uber like service for tourists and guides all over the world; Guardian Angel, a new way of checking on the safety of your loved ones; and Notifire, a convenient internet-based system of logging fire extinguishers' data to know if urgent repairs must be made. All in all, it was a great experience for those involved and the event will only continue to grow in size for next year's YU hackathon.