Hackathon

Ludmila Smirnova, Mark Tourtelott, Eric Hinsdale represent EdTech, Web Design and Open Data expertise available for Hackathoners

setting up.

Andrea Tejedor, the fearless HVTechFest Hackathon leader, is rushing to the stage to announce the next step

The Hackathon process was as follows:

Warm-up with Design Thinking challenge > Pitching ideas > Recruiting and forming teams > Building time > Presenting the solution > Judging > Celebrating.

Participants are forming the line to pitch their ideas now

The startup bug bit kids at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!

Special OpenHub prize - WebDev Bootcamp scholarship - worth $2,500 - was granted to Sugey Vaquero, NFA PTECH student. She is excited to learn real life skills at Web Development

It was exciting to see 120+ professionals working side by side with youth, and competing equally.

We discovered that our high schoolers are way more tech savvy than previous generations. They are thoughtful, engaged and collaborative, responsible and capable.

These amazing NFA students are committed to solve their community challenge - Newburgh's poverty! They know how technology can change people's lives, and they have a specific solution.

Public Transportation team 

Team members: Israel Pagan, Kevin Leto - PTECH students from NFA - pitching their project in front of HVTechFest Hackathon jury

Our guests and leaders - with Newburgh Free Academy, PTECH

Design challenge was fun and help participants make new friends, warm up with out-of-the box thinking and brainstorming

all registered participants got swags - wooden toys, stickers and t-shirts

Bill Fioravanti from Orange County Economic Development and Anthony Grice from Newburgh City Council are celebrating the inaugural Hudson Valley developers festival and awarding the HVTechFest founder Yulia Ovchinnikova.

1C:Enterprise is the globally adopted rapid business application development platform and a world-wide development network. 1Ci leader Konstantin Rupasov is showing how to use platform to prototype the solution

Pollution team

Team members:

Morgan Stroud, Zachary Sheehan, Anthony Grice (Junior), Jasmine Pyle

In addition to the crystal award all team members received one year PressReader subscription to all major magazines, journals and other digital media on their choice.