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The fourth annual SPARC Hackathon: Pirates of Silicon Harbor—an app-building competition—took place August 23-24, with 45 teams—better known as crews—and 103 buccaneers (that’s pirate speak for participants). That’s a 150 percent growth...

This past week, the Charleston Digital Corridor hosted their quarterly CODEcamp open house at which they announced CODEcamp Version 3.0. Nearly 100 attendees—compromised of students, instructors and other industry professionals, and HR...

BoomTown and CS First—Google’s pilot program encouraging South Carolina’s Lowcountry students to explore computer science through a series of after school clubs—have teamed up to work with local middle schoolers on the fundamentals...

Look out Charleston—Pirates are headed ashore! Pirates of Silicon Harbor, that is. And they’re bringing some of the baddest, fiercest code-hacking buccaneers you can imagine as part of SPARC‘s fourth annual Hackathon—a mobile...

At the beginning of this school year, Google implemented its pilot program CS First—a series of after-school clubs and summer programs that encourage students to learn computer programming in the hopes it will lead students into a career in...

This May 17, The College of Charleston’s Stern Student Center will welcome Charleston’s first ever WordCamp. An Open Source platform with over 46 million downloads in the last year alone, WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management...

In the past few weeks, you might have read numerous tweets and blog posts rejoicing, “The Iron Yard is coming to Charleston!” Aspiring programmers and tech companies in Silicon Harbor are excited for good reason. The Iron Yard just opened the...