CREATE and our partners hold a few hackfests/hackathons each year. These events are intended to be fun, challenging, and accessible opportunities to generate new research ideas, pursue solutions to accessibility problems, work with mentors and peers, and gain new skills.
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PAST HACKFESTS & HACKATHONS
CREATE Accessibility Hackathon, Summer 2026
The 2026 CREATE Accessibility Hackathon explored AI solutions to accessibility needs. This year, we had more community and disability and industry representation than ever before. It led to some wonderful and exciting projects that are continuing to develop through CREATE's Tinkerer Tuesdays, where students, faculty, community members, and others meet and collaborate. This event was…
Adaptive Solutions Mini-Hackathon: 2026 Recap
February 26, 2026 In January, CREATE and HuskyADAPT teamed up with the King County Library System (KCLS) to host a mini-hackathon to brainstorm and prototype solutions to accessibility problems. After an introduction to five real-world requests submitted by the disability community, participants self-selected their projects and got to work building their prototypes. These diverse teams…
Hackfest project for children with cerebral palsy goes on to win design awards
January 29, 2026 Internationally recognized research to address a real-world need got its start at a CREATE hackfest. In 2024, students Lige Yang and Richard Li teamed up at the CREATE AI+Accessibility Hackfest to explore the concept of an AI tool that could monitor a person’s seated position, identify when they are in a posture…
HuskyADAPT Mini Hackathon: Adaptive Solutions
November 18, 2024 This month, CREATE's ARRT postdocs and HuskyADAPT students collaborated to put on an impressive and successful hackathon. The team worked with our partners King County Library Systems and Washington Assistive Technology Act Program on the event where teams designed adaptations to everyday challenges for people with disabilities. All six teams came up with…
CREATE AI+Accessibility Hackfest - Winter '24
March 6, 2024 In March 2024, CREATE students gathered with industry and community partners for a hackfest to explore and invent the future of AI and Accessibility. The event featured invited speakers Heather Nolis, Ian Stenseng, and Shaun Kane and exciting workshops on building custom GPT and creating accessible Jupyter notebooks. Attendees brainstormed on ideas submitted…