Changing Lives at HackLondon (opens in new tab)

I was at Kairos Hacks last weekend, which was running parallel to HackLondon and I most certainly echo the same sentiment, it was a great outlet for a lot of my pent up energy and I'm really grateful to MLH and all of their volunteers for being awesome and providing us a very positive environment for us to make awesome things!

The event was covered here http://blog.kairossociety.org/kairos-hacks-kicks-off-in-barc... here http://blog.kairossociety.org/kairos-hacks-barcelona-and-the...

I ended up writing a tool that extracts meaningful information from the Spanish elections : https://github.com/shadeslayer/dataminer , which can be further visualized on a website. Its not the most proficient code ever, but it's a start :)

As a student for the last three years, the rise in student hackathon and any tech-related activity has been nothing short of immense.

I think a big part of that is thanks to students like those behind HackLondon and similar events who work tirelessly (and sleepless-ly) to get people excited and sharing their work.

It's a good time to be a student in tech!

"Life is a series of opportunities, and we either take them, ignore them or waste them. Sometimes, life gives us a handful to give away and I realise now that hackathons are the best way of doing that." - Fares, organiser of HackLondon 2015