Hackathon questions and issues

Use this forum topic to ask questions or bring up any issues you have with the hackathon.

I tried to start the hackathon but the virtual machine did not have the directory “2025_hackathon”. What’s wrong?

Hi Professor. Welcome to the hackathon! When you first start the virtual machine, it populates the file system with all the code you need to get started, but this can take a while. Leave the machine running for about 10 or 15 minutes and all the needed data will show up.