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🚀 GDG Cloud Boston x Northeastern University Hackathon Powered by Gemma

Full-day hackathon co-hosted by GDG Cloud Boston and Northeastern University, centered on building with Gemma, Google's open-weight model family. Held at the Curry Student Center, Boston. Prizes included.

Fri, Jun 26, 1:00 PMCurry Student Center · Boston · MA
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Why it matters

Open-weight models like Gemma let builders control inference costs by self-hosting. A hackathon produces working prototypes and surfaces real cost/performance tradeoffs between managed and self-hosted endpoints.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Gemma is self-hostable: the cost baseline is compute, not per-token API pricing. Teams discover where Gemma throughput and context limits push them toward or away from hosted API alternatives.

From the organizers

Host: Ramin Madi, PhD, Northeastern adjunct faculty. Venue: Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston. Partner: Northeastern University. June 26, 2026, 9AM start; prizes mentioned.