Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where everyone — including the men — are invited to compete.
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an already impressive list of achievements when they graduate in May.
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally. Sponsored by tech giants like NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, TreeHacks received more than 12,000 applications, and selected only 1,000 participants.
New Jersey Institute of Technology is intensifying its efforts to deepen diversity and ensure equity, inclusion and belonging across the entire campus. Through pre-college programs that create admission pipelines for the underrepresented, or staff initiatives to empower minorities to leadership positions, the abundance of efforts reflect the same goal: Serve the students.
Young adults who may leave college because of the expense may soon have a helping hand, as NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing is now offering 12 annual scholarships of $10,000 for each of the next three years to high-performing students in financial need.
NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus. Sessions included tech challenges, puzzle competitions, panel discussions and résumé workshops.
Second-year students taking computer science (CS) classes at NJIT will learn to resize dynamic arrays, balance binary trees and implement hash tables from a software engineer employed by the largest social networking company in the world.
