2017f.pennapps.comPennApps XVI

Fall 2009 PENNAPPS I The original PennApps, with 17 teams. Fall 2010 PENNAPPS II The second PennApps, with 10 teams. Spring 2011 PENNAPPS III Known as "PennApps Mobile", with 23 teams. Fall 2011 PENNAPPS IV "PennApps Data", with 40 teams. Spring 2012 PENNAPPS V Forty-two teams competed in this event focused on "Simplicity". Fall 2012 PENNAPPS VI Over 300 students attended, more than double previous events. Spring 2013 PENNAPPS VII Five-hundred students from around the world attended the largest PennApps yet. Fall 2013 PENNAPPS VIII Over 1100 students made this the first college hackathon over 1000. Spring 2014 PENNAPPS IX PennApps Valentines Day edition was the most loving yet. Fall 2014 PENNAPPS X The tenth anniversary of the original college hackathon. Spring 2015 PENNAPPS XI Penguins took over this winter edition of PennApps. Fall 2015 PENNAPPS XII The biggest PennApps yet moves to Wells Fargo center. Spring 2016 PENNAPPS XIII PennApps brings it back home to the University of Pennsylvania. Fall 2016 PENNAPPS XIV The twelfth edition of PennApps took us back to the basics. Spring 2017 PENNAPPS XV PennApps turns fifteen and goes ad astra. CODEVERT OPS (September 8th-10th) Register Registration is currently only open for Penn Students PennApps XVI Toggle navigation PennApps XVI — Home About Learn Apply Logistics Sponsor Hosted at the nation’s first university , PennApps is the original college hackathon . Come join us to learn something new, build an app, or start a company. Let’s continue to make history together! About The College Hackathon In the context of a hackathon, the word "hack" is used to describe how multiple technologies can be used together in a new and innovative way. Teams of up to four people spend the weekend working on innovative software and hardware solutions to real-world problems. These projects range in platform and application, including elements of web development, mobile applications, drones, and more. However, many times the most important aspect of a hackathon is the community it generates and skills that inexperienced hackers walk away with. The PennApps Difference Founded in the fall of 2009, PennApps was the nation’s first student-run college hackathon. Since then, it has spurred a revolution in the way engineering students develop and showcase their skills, spawning an entire "league" of hackathons across the nation. In past years, over a thousand students from the U.S. and other countries like Switzerland, Canada, England, and Singapore have converged in Philadelphia for the spring and fall editions of the event for a weekend of creation and discovery. Both beginners and experts alike will work together, learn and compete to become better engineers and work on awesome projects. This year, PennApps is expanding its focus on learning by emphasizing the collaboration of new and experienced hackers, and providing more learning opportunities and workshops throughout the weekend. Campus Ambassadors At the end of every cycle, we ask the PennApps family if they would like to be a campus ambassador for PennApps. What this entails is spreading the word about PennApps at your local school, college or university. Campus ambassadors are an important part of the PennApps community and receive custom swag and perks at and before the event. Campus ambassadors applications are now closed. Learn Speakers For the first time, PennApps is proud to host opening and closing speakers! These highly innovative and successful people are looking forward to sharing their knowledge and experiences with hackers. Get your burning questions ready, because there will be a Q & A! Charlie Cheever Charlie Cheever started Expo to make the creation of mobile software easier and more accessible for everyone. Before that, he co-founded Quora, a popular· question-and-answer service. He worked on a number of projects at Facebook and oversaw the creation of Facebook Platform and Facebook Video. Prior to Facebook, he was employed by Amazon in Seattle. He left Facebook to start Quora in June 2009. He stepped down from active management of Quora in September 2012 but remains an advisor. Charlie grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and is a graduate of Harvard College where he majored in Computer Science. He got his start in mobile programming by making games on a TI-85 graphing calculator. Alfred Berkeley Before working as the Chairman of Princeton Capital Management, Alfred Berkeley was President of the Nasdaq Stock Market. He was Vice Chair of the President Bush and Obama’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council and also served as Vice-Chair of the evaluation committee for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Berkeley has served on the board of directors for technology companies such as Webex, Cognos, Policy Management Systems, Safeguard Scientifics and non-profit boards such as the World Economic Forum USA, the Johns Hopkins University, the Medical School of the University of Maryland, Hollins University and Allen University. He received his MBA from the Wharton School in 1968. Mentorship PennApps is built upon the idea that everyone can participate, from individuals who have never written a line of code to experts who have been developing for years. We have a number of resources available at PennApps, including workshops, hacker gurus, and the ability to request a mentor. If you are not sure where to start, the mentorship team holds tech talks, introductory guides, and more. We are here to help! The PennApps Mentorship team can be reached at [email protected] . You can find many resources at mentoring.pennapps.com . Hardware PennApps is partnering with Architechs again this year to let hackers get their hands dirty with hardware hacking. Whether you have vast experience with hardware or want to try it for the first time, our team of hardware volunteers will help you learn to use the cool gadgets we’re offering to build something incredible. We will be providing access to laser cutters and 3D printers as well as having our hardware check-out station to help make your hack the best one out there. PennApps aims to provide a wide array of hardware to interested hackers. A list of our previous parts can be found here. If you have any suggestions for specific hardware you’d like to see this, fall, please fill out this form with our requests. If you have any specific inquiries, feel free to reach out to David W. at [email protected] . Routes Routes will continue this spring to provide you with additional and incentive when you hack on specific themes or just cool things to be a part of in addition to your hack. Think of Routes as a series of forks you can take, each adjusting your final destination by a bit. The right combination will help make your hack that much better, and each one you choose to take could lead to a very special payoff. This fall the Routes you can take are VR/AR & Cyber Security, Education, Real World Hacks (Health & Social/Civic), Google Cloud Platform, and Android Things . Routes will give you special access to resources, fun side events, workshops and should you choose to incorporate one or more into your hack, prizes. VR/AR & Cybersecurity Stay tuned for details! Education: Brought To You By Palantir Stay tuned for details! Real World Hacks (Health & Social/Civic) Historically, concepts conceived at PennApps have gone on to become full-fledged companies. In 2016, we partnered with the Penn Center for Health Care Innovation and the Penn Center for Innovation to bring real-world health care problems to PennApps. Keriton was created after a team of nurses from Penn Medicine’s NICU spoke at PennApps about the challenges associated with the process for managing and tracking breast milk for premature babies. They described the process as repetitive and time-consuming – as well as impersonal for mothers with newborns in the NICU. Vidur Bhatnagar, an engineering student at Penn chose to work on this challenge, and went on...