<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/hackathon-win.aspx" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>11/21/2025 10:43:27 AM</pubDate><title>Cougar WATTs Bring Home Hackathon Win</title><description>Lawson State's Cougar W.A.T.T.s won the 2-year college prize at the Birmingham HBCU Energy Hackathon by creating an innovative app to promote energy stewardship and financial savings.</description><author/><image><img src="https://www.lawsonstate.edu/_resources/assets/img/News/hackathon-winner-2025.webp" alt="A group of eight professionally dressed people pose and smile in front of a red Lawson State Community College backdrop with a red, white, and gold balloon arch."/></image></item>