In the final week of classes this December, 15 students in Professor Kyle Coombs’ Data Science for Economists course dedicated 48 hours of their unscheduled time to a collaborative hackathon. The project, conducted in partnership with the City of Lewiston, offered students a chance to work with real-world data while advancing the city’s Transformation Plan—a resident-led, city-adopted initiative aimed at improving the community.

For more details about the hackathon and its outcomes, check out here.