<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/hack-new-haven.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>04/01/2025</pubDate><title>Students Created Web Apps, Video Games and AI-Generated Navigation Systems at the University’s First Hackathon</title><description>Industry sponsors called HackNewHaven a resounding success as students from universities across Connecticut and Massachusetts collaborated, developed tech products, and presented their innovations as part of the student-run hackathon.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey</author><author-details>Contributing Writer</author-details><hide-author/><date>April 1, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2025/unh-hack-comp-1-lg.jpg" alt="Students participating in the University of New Haven's HackNewHaven event"/></image><image-caption>Students participating in the University of New Haven's HackNewHaven event</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag><tag>dept-ececs</tag><tag>initiative-hacknewhaven</tag><tag>name-shivanjali-khare</tag><tag>name-thomas-rossi</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-ug-computer-science</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>