Southern Alberta students sharpen digital skills at Hackathon

More than 100 students from a number of schools in southern Alberta were given the chance to learn some of the digital ins and out at a special event Tuesday. The Southwest Alberta Hackathon is hosted by Palliser Regional Schools and The Callysto Project, which teaches skills like computational thinking, coding and data analysis. Grade 12 student Jackson Lowe says learning how to structure the codes and sorting through the data has been good. “I’ve always been interested in learning