Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data CrunchersBack in April, we announced an opportunity for developers and data crunchers to Hack Education with us. We challenged them to create apps and analyses to engage the public and impact education. Congratulations to the Big Winner, seven category winners, and 25 showcase apps and analyses that also wowed the judges and DonorsChoose.org staff! Big Winner: Michael Nutt
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Create a dynamic email signature to show classroom projects in need of funding each time your email is viewed.
Trophy awarded by Stephen Colbert! Judges: Arianna Huffington, Fred Wilson, Wendy Kopp Data Analysis Tie: Lisa Zhang
"Hacking Education" Series
An examination of the kinds of projects that teachers post and the kinds of projects that donors decided to support. Also, an analysis of the differences in funding success between male and female teachers, and between married and unmarried teachers.
Judges: Joel Klein, Jane Viau Data Analysis Tie: Tiffany Bergin
Data -> Knowledge -> Insight
Javascript: Jed Wood
DonorZonSearch on Amazon.com and this browser extension shows related classroom projects within the Amazon UI.
Judges: Tom Hughes Croucher, Thomas Fuchs .NET: Jeremy Kratz
Donors Choose Factbook On this user-friendly and dynamic dashboard, you can slice and dice the org’s historical data by a number of facets, including date range and state.
Judges: Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman PHP: John Mertens
DonorsChoose Projects Near Me Wordpress PluginThis WordPress plugin determines the geographic location of each blog reader and displays nearby classroom projects.
Judges: Gina Trapani, Joi Ito, Matt Mullenweg Python: Max Shron and Mike Dewar
DC2J: The DonorsChoose.org Automatic Press Release SystemAutomatically creates compelling summaries of completed classroom projects and notifies local television and newspaper journalists.
Judges: Adrian Holovaty, Hilary Mason Ruby: Michael Nutt
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Judges: Chad Fowler, Jeff Casimir Sponsors
FundersThe Anthony E. Meyer Family Foundation Michael C. Lewis |
