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Events Reports

May 2025 Student Hackathon

On May 30, 2025, SFU鈥檚 Planetary Health Research Group, and Sustainability and Climate Office hosted the university鈥檚 inaugural Wildfire Hackathon. Inspired by traditional hackathon design, this full-day event brought graduate students from across degree programs and faculties together with professionals, practitioners and academic researchers to imagine and design innovative, interdisciplinary and community-engaged solutions to address wildfire-related challenges on Burnaby Mountain.

The Wildfire Hackathon built on outcomes from 鈥淲ildfire Resilience and Climate Action on Burnaby Mountain鈥� 鈥� a community-engaged event hosted by SFU鈥檚 Planetary Health Research Group on September 18, 2024. This event showcased SFU research that informs the diverse ways that climate change and wildfire interact to impact our lives, and learned from the insights of firefighters, First Nations, UniverCity community members and SFU Risk and Safety on wildfire and climate resilience on Burnaby Mountain.

Building on what was heard at this event (see Wildfire Resilience and Climate Action on Burnaby Mountain What We Heart Report), the Wildfire Hackathon was meant to create continuity in the connections made between attendees, particularly among students who often live, work and study on the mountain, and to collaborate to design novel solutions that will create greater resilience in the Burnaby Mountain and UniverCity communities.