We were at General Assembly in NYC with ~70 developers and data crunchers for our Hacking Education “hackathon” event!
The turn-out was great, the participants were totally engaged, and the apps demoed at the end of the 10-hour hackathon were amazing.
The inspiring results of just a half-day of brainstorming and building got everyone super excited to see the final Hacking Education contest submissions!
We’re deeply grateful to…
The event sponsors: Bing, Palentir, SVB, Pepsi
The event hosts & organizers: Reddit, General Assembly, MESA, breadpig
The demo session feedback panel: Alexis Ohanian, Rachel Sklar, Scott Schwaitzberg
And a special HUGE thank-you to Jacob Brody (MESA) and Adrian Ryan (General Assembly) for bringing everything together!!
Here are some fun photos from the hackathon:
The iphone app in the last pic looks cool!
Comment by EmoNunu — June 20, 2011 at 7:20pm
That’s a lot of Geeks and techies in one room LOL! Thanks for coming together to help DonorsChoose.org teachers. Can’t wait to hear what you all came up with.
Comment by Debby — June 21, 2011 at 5:05pm
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