What is Madhacks? How did it start? What goes into creating a hackathon? Meet the organizers of MadHacks 2024 – Grace Steinmetz, Chris Gottwaldt, Kevin Wang, Kayley Seow, Nico Salm, and Michael Noguera with Computer Sciences professor Manolis Vlatakis – and hear about their process and the impact of MadHacks. “Participants come to MadHacks from a variety of backgrounds, bringing their own knowledge of problems affecting their communities,” say the creators. “We are enablers — we provide a positive environment and concentrate resources—but hackers themselves are the agents using what they know and what they learn to develop solutions to their own real-world problems.”