On the weekend of March 21st a number of Cog Sci undergrad and grad students, led by Nico Waworuntu and Natalia Gomez Queseda, hosted the first-ever Cognitive Science based hackathon, MindHack 2026.
According to Nico, “The goal of this event was to give a space for students of the brain-related fields to come together and build something to show their skills. We intentionally designed this hackathon to award evidence-based design decisions and research-backed projects. This was our core philosophy”.
Congratulations to the winners, and many thanks to Nico and Natalia, their team of volunteers, the Carleton Science Student Society (SciSoc), the School of Computer Science, as well as the judges: Professors Mary Kelly, Kasia Muldner, Nadiya Slobodenyuk (from Cog Sci), Nadine Mocadieh (from Comp Sci), as well as Cog Sci PhD student Nadine Charanek.
Finally, a special thank you to one of Cog Sci’s PhD graduates, Francis Jeanson of the Ontario Brain Institute, for his extremely generous sponsorship of the event.
