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Last year, they helped us run the Summer Fellowship and our Spring conference (for early to mid-career NYC tech leaders), and simply keep the lights on for the year!

Visit hackny.org/support-us to make a donation today ❤️

During week 5, fellows made cake, saw the tech roast comedy show, and participated in a workshop to craft punch needle mirrors 🍰🧶

During the 4th and 5th week of the fellowship, fellows heard from alumNY Alex Akers (h’13) on his experience working at Apple 🍎, as well as Benjamin Rubin, Co-founder & CEO of SnoFox Sciences.
SnoFox employs detailed thermodynamic simulations and data analysis to help large refrigeration operations lower their environmental impact and increase their performance ❄️

Pizza, anyone? This summer, alumNY Doug (h’17) and Jacob (h’17) kicked off their inaugural pizza tour and led fellows and alumNY through a day of exploring some of the best NY slices!

Stops included Paulie Gee’s, Chrissy’s Pizza, L’industrie, Scarr’s Pizza, and Mandro’s of Mulberry 🍕 what was your favorite spot?

Two weeks ago some fellows went to Coney Island beach after work and rode some rides at Luna Park as well as saw the first Friday night fireworks of the summer 🎆

During the third week of the fellowship, the fellows heard from Matthew and Rob at NYC Mesh and Mike Fiedler from the python software foundation ‼️

Last Sunday, Moody (mentor, h’23) took the fellows around Jackson Heights and Flushing for a food crawl (unfortunately everyone was too busy eating to take more photos 😁)

Some of the fellows also went to the Met Cloisters on their day off on Juneteenth ‼️

Snaps from week 3 🙌

During the second week of the fellowship, our fellows heard from Dan Schlosser, Co-founder of Ambrook, as well as Hunter Calvert and Bella Virgilio from the NYT Games team 🎤

Fellows got to learn about what it takes to build profitable and sustainable software for farms, as well as the behind the scenes moving parts of all the fun NYT Games!

Our 2025 fellows and previous hackNY alumni joined together to participate in our SSNON&TI (stupid s**t no one needs & terrible ideas) hackathon last Saturday, a one day event for the new fellows to meet the alumNY and build something fun with no value whatsoever! 🛠️

Philharmonic in the park last week 🎶 plus an extra photo of the fellows together on the subway 🚊

Our fellows heard from hackNY cofounder Chris Wiggins (not pictured in post) and two past alumNY during the first week’s speaker series!