Hackathon Winners

Project:Connect After the Hackathon Part 2: The Winners

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:09:39 GMT

Source: aplatformforgood.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Earlier this week, I provided a glimpse into what happened during last week’s Project:Connect Hackathon co-sponsored by the Family Online Safety Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and Facebook. Today, I want to share which teams took home the top prize. Each team had to choose a category to enter their hack in—Social Good, Enable Literacy, and Control of Information. The grand prize Winners are: Social Good: Helpster by Team CB Media Helpster is a web and mobile app to connect people in communities willing to volunteer their time (the Helpster) to someone with a simple need (the Needster) who pays for the time/skill via donation to a favorite charity. Enable Literacy: Congregate by Team Arganots Congregate is a mobile app used to build common ground one issue at a time. The technology prepares young people (age 13+) to participate in democracy while giving them tools to influence their own future. Users can vote on and discuss issues that matter to them most. Control of Information: That Could Be Your Sister by Team That Could Be Your Sister That Could Be Your Sister is an online community encouraging young people to stop the spread of viral “shaming”. This is a movement to turn bystanders into active supporters helping girls grow up in a safe environment. Say Cheese! All the Winners from the Hackathon. Check out the main event site for more details about the Winners. And want to see more of 'behind the Hackathon ...

BMW Sustainability Hackathon Winners Solve EV Charging Dilemmas

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:38:45 GMT

Source: evobsession.com --- Saturday, May 11, 2013
BMW recently hosted a Hackathon in Mountain View, CA, aimed at addressing issues related to electric car charging. The Hackathon was sponsored by ChargePoint and Drive Now. The big dilemma the Hackathon was focused on was how apps could help in situations where someone is parked at a public EV charging station (even after charging) and [...] BMW Sustainability Hackathon Winners Solve EV Charging Dilemmas was originally published on EV Obsession . ...

Enterprise Hackathon winners win $75K

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:30:29 GMT

Source: technical.ly --- Friday, May 10, 2013
The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) announced the Winners of its first month-long Enterprise Hackathon , which we introduced here, earlier this week. The Winners were: Life Sciences Track : John Quillen , who is developing an app to support global product launches. Quillen, 50, is the founder of Malvern, Pa.-based life sciences IT consultancy Euclidean Group . This was his first Hackathon. He won $50,000 and $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credits. Quillen, who’s worked in life sciences for nearly two decades, said he’ll continue to work on his Hackathon project. Infrastructure Track : Charlie Giammattei , who led a team that built an app for reporting water quality problems. Giammattei, 30, was also on the grand prize-winning team of the recent Philly Health Codefest , which was his first Hackathon. He’s the cofounder and CEO of Conshohocken-based MedTrak , which offers a healthcare data collection product called CareSense . Giammattei said the infrastructure track challenge — to build a handheld data collection system — was similar to what he had already built with CareSense. His team won $25,000 and $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credits. The other infrastructure track, which asked hackers to develop a mobile app for performing infrastructure inspections, did not get enough strong entries to merit an award, said Satwik Seshasai , co-organizer of the Hackathon and CTO of NextDocs . The Hackathon, ...

Philly Enterprise Hackathon Winners Announced

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:13:20 GMT

Source: www.sep.benfranklin.org --- Thursday, May 09, 2013
Philadelphia Business Journal | Peter Key | May 8, 2013 The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies has announced the Winners of the Philly Enterprise Hackathon . John Quillen won the life sciences track, which was sponsored by Teva (NYSE:TEVA) and required contestants to build an app for simplifying project/content management. He received $50,000 in cash and $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credits. My Flow, a team led by Charlie Giammattei , won the infrastructure track that required entrants to develop a mobile app for reporting water quality problems. That track was sponsored by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania , the Delaware River Water Alliance and FloWatch, and awarded My Flow $25,000 in cash and $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credits. There was another infrastructure track sponsored by Bentley Systems that required participants to develop a mobile app for performing infrastructure inspections, but it didn’t attract enough qualified entries to merit giving out an award. Both Winners will get three months free rent at the VentureF0rth incubator in Philadelphia. Read More: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/peter-key/2013/05/philly-enterprise-Hackathon-Winners.html ...

Here are the winners of the MTA's hackathon

Tue, 07 May 2013 03:45:00 GMT

Source: www.amny.com --- Monday, May 06, 2013
An app for following your favorite subway musicians won the MTA's weekend-long Hackathon, taking home the $5,000 grand prize. ...

Congrats to the hackathon winners (1st: SubCulture.FM, 2nd: MTA Sheriff, 3rd: Ac...

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:10:27 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, May 06, 2013
Congrats to the Hackathon Winners (1st: SubCulture.FM, 2nd: MTA Sheriff, 3rd: Accessway)! This weekend's Winners will go on to compete in the 2013 App Quest sponsored by NYU-Poly and AT&T, cosponsored by the MTA, and powered by ChallengePost. Timeline Photos Hundreds of app developers are working on the next best app for MTA riders while competing for prizes totalling $10,000 at NYU-Poly today. This weekend's Winners will go on to compete in the 2013 App Quest sponsored by NYU-Poly and AT&T, cosponsored by the MTA, and powered by ChallengePost. ...

NY Winners of Foursquare’s First Hackathon Announced

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:05:51 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Friday, April 26, 2013
Image via Wikipedia Recently NY startup Foursquare hosted a global Hackathon, bringing together developers from five official sites around the world: NY at General Assembly, San Francisco at Foursquare, Denver, CO at Closely, Tokyo at GaiaX and Paris at Le Camping. Though global Winners have yet to be announced, according to The Next Web , local Winners include NY General Assembly in first place, DigDj in second, and Placeface for 3rd place. The Next Web ...

World Bank Announces 3 Winners Of 'Sanitation Hackathon And App Challenge'

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:49:51 GMT

Source: globalhealth.kff.org --- Friday, April 26, 2013
"Last week [the World Bank] announced three prize-Winners of the Sanitation Hackathon and App Challenge, described as a yearlong project to recognize innovative and locally relevant [smartphone applications (apps)] that address sanitation challenges," Inter Press Service reports. The news service highlights the three Winners -- "Manobi, a mobile and internet services firm based in Dakar, Senegal," which developed a text messaging service to monitor school sanitation facilities; a team of students at the University of Indonesia who developed Sun-Clean, an app "designed to teach children good sanitation and hygiene practices"; and a team of developers from England, Germany, the U.S., and Tanzania who developed Taarifa, an app "that enables public officials to tag and respond to citizen complaints about the delivery of sanitation services" (Deen, 4/25). "The competition attracted more than 180 apps, including everything from games to teach children about good hygiene to programs that track exactly how much a household spends on sanitation," BBC News notes (Kalan, 4/24). ...

Congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:39:27 GMT

Source: hackny.org --- Monday, April 08, 2013
Congratulations to the Winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student Hackathon! 1st Place: gitdown Alexandra Qin (New York University), Geoffrey Litt (Yale) 2nd Place: AirDrum Eddie Zaneski (Rutgers University), Ian Lozinski (Rutgers University), Sushanth Kodali (Rutgers University) 3rd Place: ModMail Ayaka Nonaka (University of Pennsylvania), Sean Welleck (University of Pennsylvania), Diana Chen, Steven Krouse (University of Pennsylvania), Jonathan Leung (University of Pennsylvania) Best Hardware Hack: Laser Tanks Manuel Lopez (Rutgers University) Funniest: Ooh La Wee Alexsander Akers (Columbia University) Technically impressive: Terminal Wars Josh Matthews (Rutgers University), Kaitlin Poskaitis (Rutgers University) Best UI/prettiest/most intuitive to use: Mapquestz Michelle Lew (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael Helmbrecht (Carnegie Mellon University) The 8breaker: Drone Control Frank Carey (State University of New York at New Paltz) Most number of APIs: Mustached Bear Charles Lehner (University of Rochester), Kai Herng Loh (Brown University) Learn more about these and other awesome hacks on Hacker League ! ...