AbelsonTaylor participated in the MIT COVID-19 Challenge. The 48-hour virtual event hosted 1,500 hackers and created 238 teams to address COVID-19 challenges within 10 focus tracks. Participants came from more than 96 countries and 49 states, each dealing with different stages of COVID-19 in their communities and made for a richly diverse array of proposed solutions. Partners, sponsors and over 250 volunteer mentors worked the weekend to provide research and development resources to teams throughout.

The MIT COVID-19 Challenge was a 48-hour virtual event that hosted 1,500 hackers and created 238 teams to address COVID-19 challenges within 10 focus tracks.

It began with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “hackathons” and a billion-dollar inspiration.