this was fun experience collaborating through Discord, planning through Padlet, communicating through Zoom, - applying social distancing networking skills through diversed platforms.
Great learning experience for all!
Thank you to
our sponsor
all registered participants got swags - wooden toys, stickers and t-shirts
Find us on YouTube: HVTechFest channel: http://bit.ly/HVTF_YouTube
Hudson Valley Can Code channel: https://bit.ly/HVCC_YouTube
We appreciate our partner, AT&T, who lobbied with vigor to have kids involved more than we initially envisioned – it was amazingly inspirational and a learning experience for all! We discovered that our high schoolers are way more tech savvy than previous generations. They are thoughtful, engaged and collaborative, responsible and capable. The startup bug bit them at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!
Some of our team having fun at the Networking Mixer!
The grand prize (and the Audience Award) was awarded to the Space Track team. Jarred Duggal (Syracuse, NY), Taylor Dinardo and Tanner Festa (Suny New Paltz students, NY), Patrick Meaney (Poughkeepsie, NY), Gerard Vinyes (Catalonia), Aidan Young (Canada), Jacob Johnston (Newburgh, NY). They built the SpaceTrack website to help students, particularly those who struggle with executive function, to organize and prioritize tasks in the new virtual environment. Tasks can include courses, social interaction, exercise, and other goal-oriented activities. SpaceTrack includes games, a prioritization calculator, task selector, parent portal, and a VR display, not to mention its awesome space theme!
TechDojo team
Team members: Cheryl Schneider, Dominick Piaquadio, Ricky Lau, Steven Cina, Rahul Joseph.
The solution used 1Ci platform to build a prototype, it took only 30 minutes using 1Ci platform instead of 2 hours of coding
- Christoph Winkler, Hynes Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Iona College
- Jeffrey Werner, CEO at The Field Group I Investor I Senior Advisor I Business Coach
- Scott Gillespie, Co-Creator at Aquaritas Group
- Mark Tourtellott, Creative
- Doug Masiero, Building with Software and Tech
- Antoni Sousa, Connecting people and technology
Ludmila Smirnova, Mark Tourtelott, Eric Hinsdale represent EdTech, Web Design and Open Data expertise available for Hackathoners
Alicia D'Amico, Yulia Ovchinnikova and Dmitry Pavlov awarding HVTechFest team leaders
Best Ed Tech prize sponsored by DataArt was awarded to Remote Learning Wizard. Frangelina Cartagena, Caesar Bell, Lydia Lumbert, Arlo Weston from Poughkeepsie, and Anish Ganesh from India, created a platform where kids can access after school support.
Design challenge was fun and help participants make new friends, warm up with out-of-the box thinking and brainstorming
James Hendler is talking about artificial intelligence
