AT&T Hackathon | Build an App to Disrupt Education
Gather all of your creative talents and get to hacking this Friday and Saturday, February 8-9 on what might just be the most viable, essential and disruptive focus of any hackathon…… education. Organized by developer evangelist, Alex Donn of the AT&T Developer Program in coordination with Real Office Centers and AT&T Aspire, this hackathon invites attendees including students, teachers, developers, and designers to build apps and mobile apps that will disrupt education.
According to a global report by education firm Pearson, US ranks 17th in the developed world for education. Finland and South Korea made the top list for the best education system, followed by Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Indeed, creating an app that could essentially disrupt the education status quo can be a great influence in raising the bar for the US education system.
Participants will keep 100% of what they build. Also, $9,000 will be given away to local education charities on behalf of the top 3 teams.
Prizes include:
- Best Hackathon Education App
- 1st Place
- $500 in Gift Cards for the team to split
- $5,000 donated from AT&T to the team’s choice of non-profit organizations**
- 2nd Place
- $300 in Gift Cards for the team to split
- $3,000 donated from AT&T to the team’s choice of non-profit organizations**
- 3rd Place
- $200 in Gift Cards for the team to split
- $1,000 donated from AT&T to the team’s choice of non-profit organizations**
- 1st Place
- Best App using AT&T APIs (Click for more info)
- $500 in Gift Cards for the team to split and entire team seeded with Sierra Wireless 4G LTE Devices and one (1) month of 1GB DataConnect Service (Max 3) [compliments of Sierra Wireless]
- Best App using Pearson APIs
- $300 in Gift Cards for the team to split
To get more info and register to this free event, click here.
