GreenHacks is JHU’s first sustainability-focused hackathon. Our mission is to inspire individuals from different academic and personal backgrounds to collaborate on solving sustainability issues. GreenHacks seeks to offer a platform for competitive ideation and creativity to spark innovative and sustainable solution design. Through the hackathon format, we bring together forward-looking students, JHU faculty members, sustainability organizations, and companies into one space for the purposes of interaction and collaboration in order to: Accelerate the conversation regarding innovative sustainable solutions. Connect people at the intersection of different fields including design, software development, business, engineering, science, and policy. Encourage creative-thinking, collaboration, networking, personal development, innovation, and invention. Design and pitch innovative green technologies, business proposals, initiatives, solutions, etc.