Daniel Borstelmann lives in downtown St. Louis, so he is not entirely unfamiliar with the problem of homelessness, at least as it relates to changing the fabric of a city.
“I see it a lot downtown,” says Borstelmann. The 21-year-old from Lincoln, Neb., is a student at Washington University. Friday night, he was huddled around his laptop with three fellow WU teammates prepared to tackle homelessness along with about 1,200 other participants inGlobalHack VI, a million-dollar hack-a-thon competition.
All weekend long, culminating Sunday afternoon with 15 teams winning cash prizes, computer programmers as young as 11 and from around the U.S. and six other countries will pound away at their keyboards while slamming Red Bull and seeking to solve a systemic problem in cities all across the world, connecting the homeless efficiently with services and, most important, places to live. For the full article click here
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