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          <div class="html-content"><p>As part of the 2nd Annual <a href="https://www.nsfhdr.org/mlchallenge" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">HDR Machine Learning Challenge</a>, UMBC's <a href="https://iharp.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">iHARP project</a>, along with other NSF HDR Institutes, is hosting a kick-off <strong>virtual hackathon</strong> on <strong>December 18th (2 - 5 PM EST) </strong>that will take palce in <a href="https://www.gather.town/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Gathertown</a>.</p><p>They invite students, researchers, and practitioners of ALL levels to join in. See flyer <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Phh2TaYrRl1U4Vk-RNSJfaqgqlXsm1/view?usp=drive_link" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>. Interested students and faculty can register <a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1607943/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a> to receive participant details. Teams/Groups are welcome! </p><p>UMBC's IHARP team looks forward to seeing you in <a href="https://www.gather.town/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Gathertown</a> for the virtual hackathon on December 18.</p>The larger <a href="https://www.nsfhdr.org/mlchallenge-y2" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">overall ML challenge</a> will be open until January/February 2026, followed by an Award ceremony on April 8-9, 2026, at the FARR Workshop in Washington, D.C. Get more information <a href="https://www.farr-rcn.org/workshop26" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>.  Challenge Sponsors include NSF, NVIDIA, AWS, LAMBDA, and AMD.</div>
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