{"id":57739,"date":"2017-03-17T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57739"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:45:50","slug":"uh-students-win-top-prizes-at-uh-att-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/uh-students-win-top-prizes-at-uh-att-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> students win top prizes at UH<\/abbr>-AT&T Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> held the fourth annual AT&T UH<\/abbr> Mobile Tech Hackathon<\/a>, March 10–11 at Sacred Hearts Academy. The event drew 148 participants. Cash prizes totaling $7,000 were distributed in eight categories.<\/p>\n

The 24-hour hackathon is designed for those interested in coding mobile apps, web apps, or hacking hardware solutions. Members of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s tech community joined to network with students and others interested in technology to see what they could build overnight.<\/p>\n

The teams had a mixture of creative talent and development skills. They created their web, Android or iOS<\/abbr> apps from conception to implementation. Each team had three minutes to present their finished mobile app to the panel of judges.<\/p>\n

The goal of a hackathon is to create a sustainable environment for aspiring and seasoned developers to deploy a mobile app with a website backend that is fully hosted in the cloud. The event also aims to spur innovative ideas and help entrepreneurs and startups build new prototypes and some early market validation.<\/p>\n

David Chin<\/a><\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa professor and chair of Information and Computer Sciences<\/a>, said a hackathon could produce the next titan in the tech industry. “Imagine what that will do to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s image and standing, not to mention boosting the salaries in local tech jobs and stemming the brain drain to the mainland and foreign countries,” Chin said.<\/p>\n

Hackathon winners<\/h2>\n
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First place winner UH<\/abbr> student Clay Nakamura with Ben Nelson, AT&T Product Marketing Director.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa student Clay Nakamura<\/strong> won the best app grand prize of $2,500 for developing an app that takes recommendations from r\/listentothis subreddit, downloads the songs and plays them using a Rasberry Pi. He also won $1,000 for the best entertainment and gaming app. The other winning teams split the additional cash prizes totaling $3,500.<\/p>\n

DJ Reddit awarded Grand Prize—Overall and Entertainment\/Gaming 1st\u00a0Place<\/strong><\/p>\n