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Hacking the Hackathon

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The ‘Involution’ of Hackathons A late night breakthrough on our PennApps XX Project “Quick, quick, Caden! Wake up — the drone is flying!” Half of our team had been sleeping for the past ...

The ‘Involution’ of Hackathons A late night breakthrough on our PennApps XX Project “Quick, quick, Caden! Wake up — the drone is flying !” Half of our team had been sleeping for the past hour and a bit. Acceptable, considering the time was now 2:42 am. The drone was whirring midair in our little room, nearly getting snagged on our laptops, chargers, and free event swag. Beside us, a blackboard wall displayed a rough chalk diagram of our technical architecture. We had roughly 20 hours left in the hackathon and now that the drone worked, our biggest roadblock was out of the way — it was time to

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