Development of a Computational Platform to support Hackathons

Hackathon, Computational Platform, Innovation.

This article aims to present the process and the product developed in the Master in Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer for Innovation (PROFNIT), a Computational Platform to support Hackathons. Hackathons are marathons of programming and innovation in order to develop solutions to real problems of institutions and companies. The objective is to automate, administer, manage and support all stages where facilitators, mentors and teams will participate in the event. The platform was developed based on the execution methodology, organization and tools of Hackathon from Estação VIA Conhecimento. For the development of the Application, agile software

development tools, technologies and methodologies were used, namely: VSCode code editor, MySQL in the database, AdminLTE free web template and JavaScript as a programming language.