VHacks: Inside the Vatican’s First-Ever Hackathon

This past weekend, as tourists milled around St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest sites in the world, snapping selfies and experiencing Michelangelo’s art through their phone’s camera lens, 120 students sat in a 500-year-old palazzo a few hundred meters away, coding for 36 hours straight at the Vatican’s first-ever hackathon. This, it would seem, …