# It's Okay to Break Things: Reflections on Khan Academy's Healthy Hackathon

DevFeed: [It's Okay to Break Things: Reflections on Khan Academy's Healthy Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/it-s-okay-to-break-things-reflections-on-khan-academy-s-healthy-hackathon-27385.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/its-okay-to-break-things.htm>)

Author: Khan Academy

Published: 2017-03-06T23:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/khan-academy.md>)

Topics: [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [equity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/equity.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [reflections](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reflections.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [web-frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-frontend.md>)

## AI overview

Kimerie Green reflects on participating in Khan Academy's internal Healthy Hackathon while working as a Software Engineering Fellow. She describes building Read-to-Me, an experimental project using Mozilla's Web Speech API to read Perseus widget content aloud for early learners. The project was not shipped because it needed further code review and design work, but it provided lessons about curiosity, collaboration, and software engineering.

## Source excerpt

By Kimerie Green For the past few months, I have been working as a Software Engineering Fellow at ... Read more