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    "title" : "GSA Presents: Grace Hopper Day Hackathon! |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"GSA Presents: Grace Hopper Day Hackathon!","summary" : "The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Digital Service team is excited to be hosting our next agency hackathon on December 9, 2016. Join coders from across the region as we come together in celebration of Grace Hopper’s birthday.","date" : "2016-11-28T02:00:12-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"sara-cope" : "Sara Cope"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/11/2016-11-28-gsa-presents-grace-hopper-day-hackathon.md","slug" : "gsa-presents-grace-hopper-day-hackathon","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/11/28/gsa-presents-grace-hopper-day-hackathon/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen\u003c/strong\u003e: Friday, December 9th, 2016\u003cbr /\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere\u003c/strong\u003e: NARA Innovation Hub, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW\u003cbr /\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegister\u003c/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-hopper-day-hackathon-tickets-27668620589\"\u003eOn Eventbrite\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsa.gov/\"\u003eU.S. General Services Administration\u003c/a\u003e (GSA) Digital Service team is excited to be \u003ca href=\"http://open.gsa.gov/grace-hopper-hackathon/\"\u003ehosting our next agency hackathon\u003c/a\u003e on December 9, 2016. Join coders from across the region as we come together in celebration of Grace Hopper’s birthday. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper\"\u003eAdmiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper\u003c/a\u003e was one of the first programmers in the history of computers. As the creator of the first \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler\"\u003ecompiler\u003c/a\u003e for a p\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language\"\u003erogramming language\u003c/a\u003e, it is largely due to her that programmers use “if/thens” instead of 1s and 0s today.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/03/600-x-485-Commodore-Rear-Admiral_Grace_M_Hopper_USN-United-States-Navy.jpg\"\n    alt=\"U.S. Navy photo of Commodore Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Hopper, United States Navy.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe event is open to the public and being held in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/innovation-hub\"\u003eNational Archives Innovation Hub\u003c/a\u003e in Washington, D.C. We will focus on diving into some open source code to redesign the GSA Open Technology portal, \u003ca href=\"http://open.gsa.gov/\"\u003eopen.gsa.gov\u003c/a\u003e. This site is the current developer portal for all GSA data, APIs, and source code open to the public. The goal is to create a more visually appealing, user-friendly, and engaging site. Cash prizes will be awarded to the greatest contributions. Bring your laptop, and come ready to hack!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis hackathon is beginner friendly! GSA DS staff will be onsite and available for project related assistance and guidance. We’d like to highly encourage women, non-binary, and other underrepresented groups in tech to attend.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/03/600-x-274-Lt.-Grace-Hopper-at-her-desk-in-the-Computation-Laboratory_Glass-shelves-with-early-calculating-machines-seen-in-background-1947.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Black and white image of Grace Hopper.\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant Grace Hopper at her desk in the Harvard Computation Laboratory, 1947, AC0324-0000033. Grace Murry Hopper Collection, NMAH.AC.0324, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://open.gsa.gov/grace-hopper-hackathon/\"\u003eCheck out the hackathon’s full details and register now\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis event has passed; \u003ca href=\"https://open.gsa.gov/events/grace-hopper-hackathon/\"\u003eread all about it here\u003c/a\u003e (includes links to team demo videos and presentation slide decks).\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/\"\u003eRear Admiral Grace Hopper\u003c/a\u003e, also known as “Amazing Grace” and “the first lady of software,” was one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom\"\u003e21 Americans\u003c/a\u003e awarded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/11/22/celebrating-presidential-medal-freedom-winners-science-and-tech-garwin-hopper-and\"\u003ePresidential Medal of Freedom\u003c/a\u003e by President Barack Obama on November 22, 2016. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/campaign/medal-of-freedom\"\u003eWatch the 2016 ceremony, and learn about other recipients\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/03/600-x-450-Grace-Hopper-teaching-COBOL.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Black and white image of Grace Hopper standing in front of a COBOL class. The blackboard has a program written on it.\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Hopper teaching COBOL in 1961.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eLearn more about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsa.gov/\"\u003eU.S. General Services Administration\u003c/a\u003e (GSA).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead recent posts on \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/software-engineering/\"\u003edata\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/application-programming-interface/\"\u003eAPIs\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/open-source/\"\u003eopen source\u003c/a\u003e, and news about \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/challenges-and-prize-competitions/\"\u003echallenge and prize competitions\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science/\"\u003ecrowdsourcing \u0026amp; citizen science\u003c/a\u003e projects.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn how \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/services/challenge-gov/\"\u003eChallenge.gov\u003c/a\u003e (crowdsourced challenge and prize competitions) and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/04/14/gsa-unveils-new-hub-for-federal-citizen-science-crowdsourcing/\"\u003eCitizenScience.gov\u003c/a\u003e (crowdsourcing and citizen science projects) can help your agency meet its goals in serving the public.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes your agency need help testing their mobile products? Contact our Federal CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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