Alberta students gather at the Picture Butte High School for Hackathon
PICTRE BUTTE, AB. — 125 students from Alberta were at Picture Butte High School on Tuesday (Feb 25) for the Callysto Hackathon, which taught them a variety of coding skills.
Callysto is a free, interactive, learning and skills development program for Grades 5-12 students in Canada. The program is part of a two-year pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. They received funding from the federal government’s CanCode program to build and employ new technologies that promote digital literacy, and help Canada’s youth develop the foundational skills required to become the future drivers of innovation.
The Hackathon events span across Canada and the World but Callysto Canada hosted this particular Hackathon to teach certain computer science tasks.
Callysto workers guided the students through a competition, to see who could win prizes for having the best programing skills or coding the fastest.