United Nations officials are praising winners of an international “hackathon” for creating technical solutions to fight the disease COVID-19. The hackathon, called CodeTheCurve, was launched on April 6. More than 160 young people from 26 countries entered the competition. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, provided support for the hackathon. Additional support came from the American technology company IBM and the European software business SAP. At first, each team received more than 20 hours of training from computer experts, the hackathon’s organizers and other technology companies. Then, the actual competition began. The teams, made up of members under age 25, had just seven days to develop their COVID-19 solutions. During this period, they received help from technical experts, all of them volunteers. In the end, the hackathon’s organizers declared three winning teams in different areas. The team honored for its solution in the “social and health issues” category was recognized as the overall Code the Curve winner. This team, called X-COV, was based in Spain. It created a data model combining artificial intelligence (AI) programs, machine learning and imaging technology to analyze chest X-rays of COVID-19 patients.