Friday, November 22, 2019

UC Riverside Student Team Wins GEICO Hackathon

A team from the University of California, Riverside has scored the top prize in a "hackathon" run by insurance company Geico. According to Geico, the UC Riverside team--made up of William Shiao, Aditya Acharya, Eric Ong and John Shin--won a two-weekend hackathon, the GEICO Hacktivates Hackathon--which had invited teams from a number of other universities to compete in a competition on "tech skills and ingenuity". Each of the members of the winning team win $850. The effort looks to be mostly a college recruiting effort by GEICO.

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