News Creativity and hard work kept the atmosphere lively at the Rio 2016 organising committee headquarters throughout Friday afternoon and Saturday (28-29 August) during a Paralympic Hackathon Journalists, designers, programmers and students got together to generate a series of infographics telling digital narratives about the Paralympic Games Organised by the digital journalism movement Chicas Poderosas, the Hackathon was given the seal of approval by the Rio 2016 'Embrace Sustainability' programme “It was one of the shortest but most incredible events that we’ve done,” said the Portuguese designer Mariana Santos, founder of Chicas Poderosas “I keep saying that Brazil has some of the best artists in the world – and I proved it here There are great programmers and journalists, too, who can achieve incredible results working together ”The Rio 2016 communications director, Adriana Garcia, was also delighted with the outcome “The Hackathon brought people from different areas to work together, collaboratively, towards a common goal,” she said “That is precisely the dynamic of the digital work going on to promote Paralympic sports "The end result was a selection of digital narratives covering a number of subjects, with two groups winning prizes for their infographics – one about interacting with people with a disability and the other about the expriences of Brazilian Paralympian Rosinha Santos, who spoke during the event about her life as an athlete The winning groups will have free access to join the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) communications team during the Paralympic Games   Paralympian Rosinha Santos inspired the participants of the Hackathon (Photo: Rio 2016/Gabriel Nascimento) About 50 people took part in the Hackathon, mainly women, including journalists, designers, programmers and local Rio de Janeiro students It was the 13th event organised by the Chicas Poderosas and the first in Brazil – previous events have taken place across countries in the Americas Set up in 2013, the movement’s aim is to encourage more Latin women to join the cutting edge of digital journalism The Hackaton kicked off the activities of the Paralympic Festival, scheduled for 6 and 7 September at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas to celebrate the milestone of one year until the start of the Paralympic Games Tickets for the Paralympics (7 – 18 September 2016) will go on sale on 7 September 2015