inviting developers
to build with us at hack@brown

Paige Morris

Brown University '17

I like to think of myself as a creative person. I love making things. I’m a writer, so I make up stories all the time. I’ve done visual art, I’ve made short movies and sometimes I try to cook, too. But I was always afraid of coding. I felt like websites were the one thing I could never make, because I wasn’t smart or skilled enough.

[…] The same kind of creativity that comes through when I’m writing or making anything else, I felt it when I was playing around with different lines of code to make the website look the way I wanted.

Lainie Rowland

Brown University '17

I’m a public policy concentrator, so I’m really off the wall from what most hackathons are aimed at. But I came here because I’m interested in the different applications of tech. Especially in public policy and in creating an accountable streamline government. And it’s just cool to be around a lot of really bright people, a lot of really helpful and inclusive people. And doing cool new stuff and learning a lot stuff I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

Nathan Malimban

Brown University '17

I had heard that Hack@Brown is very friendly to first-time hackers, so I definitely wanted to jump in the learning experience. Specifically I wanted to see how you can get together, think of an idea and execute your project. In my CS classes there has been a disconnect between the code I write and how I can actually get that code to a user or onto a website for cool applications.