In conjunction with PEARC18 in Pittsburgh, SGCI sponsored an SGCI Hackathonon July 26-27, 2018 to challenge up and coming programmers for tomorrow's science gateways. Undergraduate and graduate students competed on gateway projects established by SGCI partners.

The competition took place in the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown where the PEARC18 conference was held.

Projects for the Hackathon were provided by the following:

• myGeoHub :: https://mygeohub.org/
• SEAGrid :: https://seagrid.org/
• Cosmic² :: https://cosmic2.sdsc.edu:8443/gateway/
• SimCCS Gateway :: https://geosurveyiu.scigap.org/

Sponsors included:

• Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Texas Advanced Computing Center
• DELL EMC
• CloudyClusterby Omnibond