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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Dec 16, 2017

Our current project's trying to design a platform enabling free-response-style activities online. We hope to help students develop critical thinking skills and support creative expression in their edu experience. My fave part: you'd get to collaborate with

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Can some of this be open to outside contributors? I’d love to be involved in a community tackling similar initiatives. Been thinking a lot about people predisposed to success in hackathons...

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Great prompt! We’ve done open source + weekly blogging on some past projects, but you’ve got me thinking of hackathons, symposiums, public challenges, etc. 🤔

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I feel like some of the magic in the Bay Area is the interest in the problems. It gets overshadowed by the competitive nature of typical hackathons - “public challenge” has a nice ring to it!