UK-wide teen hackathon, Aug 2-6: Young Rewired State

Stef sez, "Young Rewired State is a multi-city, multi-day UK event to get the best of young UK coding talent mashing up government data and generally encouraging insightful and innovative trouble-making."

During the first week of August, Young Rewired State will again show what groups of talented young coders can do with Government data. Young developers will spend the week at centres held at businesses and organisations across the UK, working with established tech teams, mentors and visiting experts making apps, websites, games and visualisations.
These will then be played back to an awed roomful of Press, government and interested people on the Friday afternoon in London, with pizza, cake and drinks.

Stef adds, "There's prizes too!"

#yrs2010 = Young geeks + mentors + 1 week August 2-6, across the UK. (Thanks, Stef!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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areich

This sounds awesome! Where is the US version of this? We could serve healthy, vegan options too, Vivek.
Value Pack

Maybe you shouldn’t be plying all those wide teens with pizza & cake.
- Anonymous
  
  The food police aren’t invited.
- Anonymous
  
  The pizza/drinks thing originated at the first rewired state hack the hovernment day and its become a kind of tradition since, pizza and drinks at the show and tell, its not just a young rewired state thing.
icerunner

I thought the first rule to learn was that there is no cake?

Can’t wait to see some of the results. Here’s to hoping it drives the release of more data.