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## [Competitive Coding Spurs Creativity During Clearpool’s Development Team Hackathon](https://info.clearpoolgroup.com/blog/competitive-coding-spurs-creativity-during-clearpools-development-team-hackathon)

Apr 26, 2018 3:35:01 PM

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Clearpool hosted its first development team hackathon this month, bringing together our team of technologists for a day dedicated to coding, creativity and complex problem solving. A few days prior to the hackathon, members of our software development and quantitative analysis teams were paired up and the eight teams began brainstorming ideas. The requirements for each team’s “hack” were that it benefit the company in some way and that they take only one day to come up with their proposed solution. 

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