AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Education (Palo Alto)

AT · Friday, June 8, 2012 at 6:00 PM - Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 9:00 PM

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Have an app idea or need an app built for your business? This very special AT&T Mobile App Hackathon Education, an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program and AT&T Aspire, is designed for attendees both technical & non-technical to build apps/mobile apps to benefit our education system. We will have free food compliments of Amazon Web Services, great speakers, and some awesome prizes provided by our sponsors. Developers, teachers, and students are heavily encouraged to meet new people, scout for teammates, and collaborate to help improve education. Objective C, Android, Java, ASM, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, XNA and all other languages are welcome. Your only objective is to get a mobile app running regardless of an HTML5, Mobile Web or native implementation. Even if you are rusty with your programming, we will have live developer support from local senior developers as well as from AT&T, Sencha, and Apigee to help you code that much faster. Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekends agenda: 6PM - Friday Evening - Kickoff event with drinks, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation. 10AM - Saturday Morning - The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed on Friday night to produce the app spec’d out the night before. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 7PM. 7PM - Saturday Evening - Promptly at 7PM, teams will begin pitching their ventures. Pitches are limited to three (3) minutes per team. Prizes. The following prizes, provided by generous sponsors (RIM, Pearson, Github, and Apigee), are geared towards accelerating you towards successfully completing your app and improving our education system: TBA Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the the criteria below and weighted accordingly. 33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does 33% Weight - Originality of idea 33% Weight - Technically challenging implementation Speakers Alex Donn is a Developer Evangelist with the AT&T Developer Program and is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technology and business leaders. Lucien Vattel, GameDesk’s CEO, is the senior scholar and driving leadership for the Institute. His historical expertise in design, learning, and computational sciences has focused on transformative new school models, simulation and game learning, and digital curriculum development for at-risk populations Banny Banerjee, Associate Professor at Stanford University, is interested in realizing the design field’s potential in catalyzing systemic change. His focus is to develop transdisciplinary processes to bring about rapid change and large-scale impact. He is the founder of the “Design for Change Lab” to address issues of sustainability, technology futures, and the dynamics of rapid change. Gregg Alpert, West Coast Developer Relations Manager at Pearson, is working to progress technology use in education in an effort to improve learning outcomes. Gregg is passionate about education reform, technology, and business and believes many of the major issues in education can be improved through innovative technologies. He has an MBA with a focus in entrepreneurship and finance. Tim Anglade handles Developer Relations & Outreach for Apigee. In previous lives, he was a Research Assistant, a Project Manager, a University Lecturer and a CTO but he kept writing code all the while. You may have met him at a conference, during the NOSQL Summer or seen him host the NOSQL Tapes. He’s always up to chat about dev, hacks, apps & tech

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