This is the transcript to accompany a GIIDE post. I just spent a wonderfully fun, intelligent, scintillating, and completely engaging 5 days at MIT at the “Reality Hack” hackathon as a mentor, and judge.  This is part 1, where I’ll be talking about the experience and what happens in a hackathon like this.  Part 2 will be about my impressions, insights and takeaways.  But first, for those who aren’t familiar – a hackathon is an event that takes developers, designers, UX people, and others, and throws them together for a few days to create