Students Code The Night Away At HackNY’s Student Hackathon

More than 200 students from 33 universities gathered Saturday afternoon to attend HackNY 's fall Hackathon at New York University 's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Fourteen companies, including Meetup, Aviary and Drop.io, demoed their APIs before students settled into couches and chairs to brainstorm ideas while noshing on catered burritos. HackNY, a non-profit dedicated to getting students involved in the city's start-up culture, organized the hackathon, which also marks the end of NYU Startup Week , a series of panels and events hosted by the student organization Tech@NYU .