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Thirty-six hours to make a door

Hack the North turns a large group into small teams and working demos.

Reported by Jack Weatherston, Faculty of Engineering

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Over the past eleven years, Hack the North has grown to become a major force in the world of hackathons.

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  1. Original reporting · uwaterloo.ca
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