Hacking Education ShowcaseThe 25 awesome apps and analyses that wowed our judges and staff! Grant Kot, Joey Dong, Akarshan Kumar
GigaGiveA dynamic visualization of donation-flows over time, helping the viewer grasp both the short-term and long-term trends that exist in the data. For more details, click on the "i" information button on the visualization.
(Categories: Data Analysis, JavaScript, Wildcard) Vincent DiBartolo
SchoolRunnersAllows runners to use the miles they run to fund classroom projects of their choosing. Runners can create their own personal pledge drive and share the drive on social networks, and their friends and family can pledge money against each mile recorded on Nike+.
Requirements: Nike+ account (Categories: JavaScript, PHP, Wildcard) Alejandro Crosa
Mobile DonorsChoose.orgAllows you to find local projects in need in funding. You can discover projects that inspire you, give to a specific project right from the app, and keep up with all the latest news from DonorsChoose.org.
(Categories: Wildcard) Paul Fryzel
choosenear.meProvides location-based discovery of nearby classroom projects and integrates with FourSquare to provide project recommendations based on places you've been.
(Categories: Data Analysis, JavaScript, Wildcard) Ben Sheldon
Print and ShareEnables teachers to easily create professional and printable handouts to more readily promote their classroom projects to friends and neighbors.
(Categories: PHP, Wildcard) Howie Liu
DonorExploreAn iPad app for browsing classroom photos and projects. You can drag photos around, toss them across the screen, and scatter them by shaking the device. Also features a real-time layer to see what other people are browsing.
(Categories: JavaScript, PHP, Wildcard) Katherine Leipper
Macs for ClassroomsA study of the trend of classroom requests for technology resources with a focus on Apple products; includes household income and WalkScore data.
(Categories: JavaScript, PHP) Conroy Whitney
DonorsChoose Hacking Education QR CodesCreates a QR Code for a given classroom project and integrates with CafePress so the user can purchase schwag featuring the QR Code. For the time that the project is active, it acts as a fund-raising tool. After the project is complete, it acts as a memento to a job well-done.
(Categories: JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Wildcard) Gregory Belmont
Donors ChallengeEnables any sponsor -- a mayor, a venue owner, a brand marketer, a blog author, or any other individual or organization -- to challenge their customers, supporters, or friends by pledging a contribution to a specific classroom project or group of projects based on the outcome of an event and/or upon the completion of a group goal.
(Categories: PHP, Wildcard) Kevin Leong
Pledge for America SchoolsAn Android app that engages local merchants to participate in fundraising for classroom projects.
(Categories: Wildcard) Dhananjay Ragade and Greg Spurrier
DonorsChoose-InA LinkedIn plugin that allows users to showcase classroom projects they support on their LinkedIn profiles, to search for projects to fund, and to see which projects are supported by people in their network.
Requirements: Users must be whitelisted by the app authors to view. See screenshots. (Categories: JavaScript, Ruby, Wildcard) Tyler Schroeder
SocialChooseAnalyzes a user’s Facebook profile data (currently only location) to recommend classroom projects.
(Categories: JavaScript, .NET) Madhu Mudigonda
Projects Near MeMakes discovering local classroom projects easy by detecting the user’s location, displaying projects on a map, and providing graphical break-downs of the projects by subject, poverty level, etc.
(Categories: JavaScript) Joe Larson
DonorsChoose GeographicA user-friendly wizard helps prospective donors find classroom projects of interest and then displays them on a map.
(Categories: JavaScript) Matthew Heston
Donors Choose for FacebookAnalyzes a user’s Facebook profile to recommend classroom projects of interest and then encourages project sharing with friends.
(Categories: .NET) Kevin Marshall
GiftaBitGenerates classroom project recommendations for any Twitter user based on what that person is saying on Twitter.
(Categories: Python, Wildcard) Ken Miller
HereKidRanks the largest cities in the US based on classroom project and donation data, then displays live projects in those cities with photos and maps.
(Categories: .NET) Jason Radford
Predicting Project CompletionAn algorithm that uses statistical regression methods to predict the probability of success for most classroom projects within 2-7% accuracy.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Python) Allie Walker and Jason DeRoner
[Make It Yours]A data-backed proposal to use Facebook to provide relevant classroom project recommendations.
(Categories: Data Analysis) David Joerg
Tips For Success, By the NumbersUses 10 years of project funding data to provide highly actionable tips for teachers on how to author classroom projects that are more likely to be funded.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Wildcard) Robert Allison
DonorsChoose.org Graph Samples16 visual analyses of classroom project and funding data, including graphs and narrative from the author.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Wildcard) Tanay Jaipuria
DonorsChoose – An AnalysisAn analysis of the effect of various classroom project variables, such as location, poverty level of classroom, resource use, and type of resource, to ascertain what motivates donors to give.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Python, Wildcard) Michelangelo D'Agostino
In It TogetherMaps showing how communities have responded to classroom project requests over the years, displaying both the schools that have posted classroom projects and the origin of the donations to those schools.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Wildcard) Rem Koning and Jacob Model
Infectious Innovation: Understanding when teachers post creatively and when they do notA study of the effect of classroom innovation and how it spreads to nearby teachers and schools.
(Categories: Data Analysis) Jennifer Berk, Rick Cavolo, and Sarah Young
DonorsChoose.org Data MiningAnalysis to help identify trends and predict project funding in order to give teachers and DonorsChoose.org a better understanding of what projects, schools, topics, and titles/essays are most likely to be funded.
(Categories: Data Analysis, Wildcard) |