Grassroots Developer Education, Inc. is the producer of technical competitions and hackathons at extreme scale focused on discovering the application of new technologies, innovation and mining new ideas in the fields of augmented reality (AR,) virtual reality (VR), machine learning, and quantum computing. It is best know as the producer of the Reality Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab and the Creating Reality Hackathon at the University of Southern California. The newest project is MedVR Symposium & Hackathon for VR/AR in Healthcare which scheduled for June of 2021 at Northeastern University College of Art, Media, and Design.It is a 501 (c) 3 educational non-profit that provides free educational experiences to top software developers and designers in new technology fields. Education is sponsored by employers and platform vendors interested in expanding the talent pool.

Founded the annual Reality Virtually Hackathon with Rus Gant, Director, Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab to deepen the understanding of the applications that could be built with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).The Reality VIrtually is notable because it is the largest AR/VR hackathon in the world, the organizing team achieved unprecedented diversity, and produced of 300 original open source project submissions.

Communications strategy services to technology companies such as Facebook, IBM, and Amazon. Examples are editing scientific papers, crafting storytelling strategies, writing blog posts, writing Wikipedia pages about products, companies, and management, and writing executive blog posts and story placements.

Patterson's writing about new enterprise and technology has been featured in premier media outlets like Ars Technica, Fast Company, Quartz, and TechCrunch. He wrote his first freelance story about the 1996 Telecommunications Act of the same year.

Stories about new and future technologies. Focus on machine learning, autonomous vehicles, augmented/virtual reality and immersive technologies, cloud, and endpoint technologies such as Android and IoS mobile devices, wearables, and IoT.

Applied what we learned at the MIT Media Lab Reality Virtually Hackathon to a large scale AR and VR Hackathon by the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the USC Iovine and Young Academy, the Hollywood Studios, and the LA community of designers and developers.