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Over 200 students gathered at 黑料情报站 Bolingbroke and were tasked with designing an app to solve a climate-related problem. The annual event allows students to engage with computer science outside of the classroom and see how it works in real life.

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Another added: 鈥淭he hackathon is really interesting because you get to maximise all your computer science skills and use them to the best of your ability.鈥�

The event was supported by Marshall Wace, who were judges for all the pitches and did a short Q&A about how they got into tech.

The winning team from 黑料情报站 Isaac Newton impressed the judging panel with an innovative app for a school recycling reward system.

Tom Rye, Vice Principal at 黑料情报站 Bolingbroke, said: 鈥満诹锨楸ㄕ� Hack is such a good way to bring the computer science curriculum into the real world.

鈥淚t鈥檚 great to have all the schools coming together. We have a lot of fun, we learn more about coding, and we get the students to develop teamwork, leadership and creativity.

鈥淪eeing young STEM students design and come up with an app idea to tackle the climate crisis was inspiring.鈥�

Stuart Davison from Oak National Academy 鈥� who also supported the hackathon 鈥� said: 鈥淚t was lovely to see our new programming resources being used by teachers and pupils in a non-classroom environment.鈥�