Hackathon aims to invent breast pumps that don’t suck

JENNY BOURBEAU is frustrated. For the last 10 months, the Massachusetts mother has been expressing breast milk for her young son. Like many mothers, she needed to use a pump but found the experience impersonal and difficult.

“I spent a lot of time with the pump and the process, thinking about how much it sucks and how it could be better and wondering why it isn’t yet,” she says.