Bringing together Designers, Developers, Marketers, and Visionaries to improve the CUNY experience.
Theme: improve CUNY.
Anything that improves your life as a student: Add a feature to your school's mobile app? Build something to reach every campus?
Join 17-hour sprint of ideas & coding. Work with other amazing people.
Hacking. Prizes. Free food. Free swag. Bragging rights. Friends. Fun.
TOOLS:
IBM cheat sheet AWS cheat sheet
SCHEDULE:
October 14, FRIDAY | |
16:00 | Check-in |
16:00 - 17:00 | High Tea: Queen of England at her best |
17:00 - 17:30 | Kickoff & Cheat Sheet overview |
17:30 - 18:00 | Mentors' favorite Hackathon tools |
18:00 - 18:30 | Form ideation groups, present top 3 ideas |
18:30 - 19:00 | Finalize teams (2-5 people/team) and submit team roster |
19:00 | Brainstorming & hacking commence |
19:00 - 20:00 | Technical workshops in back room (IBM, AWS, Adobe, etc.) |
20:00 | Snacks & Dessert |
October 15, SATURDAY | |
9:00 | High Coffee |
10:00 | Mentor Introductions |
13:00 | Lunch |
17:00 | Dinner |
18:45 | Upload to Devpost |
19:15 | Pitches @ 3 min each |
20:30 | Judges announce who the winners are |
Eligibility
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You must have at least one CUNY student on your team (undergraduate or graduate student from any of the 24 CUNY campuses)
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You need to hack on both days
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Form a team of 2-5 people
- Roles needed on each team: developer, designer, idea/big picture, marketing
Requirements
Cover in your pitch:
- Why students want it
- How to get students to use it (marketing)
- Demo the product
Prizes
$2,945 in prizes
iWatch
IBM prize. One watch per team member, up to 5 watches. Best use of anything Bluemix.
Oculus Rift
One per team
Phantom 3
One per team
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Olga Bartnicki
CUNY Startups

Remko de Knikker
IBM Cloud

Melina Diaconis
CUNY Startups

Patrick Cremin
IBM Cloud
Judging Criteria
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How original is the product
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Look & feel of the product
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Expected demand from CUNY students
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How far completed
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Technical complexity
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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