Eager to test whether this paradigm would work, I organized the Vertica-sponsored MIT “Hackathon 2.0” -- the first hackathon that was facilitated by supplementary technologies. We cast to, among others, a group of students in India who hungered to learn from the patterns of MIT students on fire working collaboratively. The event was a resounding success on all ends and sparked many follow-up tele-casted coding events.