Congratulations to YD (SeptaNow.org) on winning the Penn Student Choice Award (Sponsored by First Round Capital)
Posted on Sep 23, 2010
With over 650 votes submitted, receiving nearly 200 means it's time to announce SeptaNow (YD) as the Penn Student Choice from PennApps 2010. Congrats, guys! You've got a $1,000 check from First Round Capital waiting for you.
Have some charts (to guard against voter fraud, we have votes from the UPenn network vs votes overall. The numbers don't change.):
Don't forget to check out the SEPTANow Facebook Page, which probably helped (they have more Likes than we do - what's up with that? Help us fix that.
Only 24 hours left before voting closes
Posted on Sep 22, 2010
Student Choice Award now open
Posted on Sep 19, 2010
PennApps are ready for your viewing. Take a look and vote for your favorite at pennapps.com/vote.
Voting closes Thursday at Midnight.
PennApps over!
Posted on Sep 19, 2010
After 48 hours of hacking and very little sleep, we have results!
Congratulations to our overall winners:
- Grand prize: Team Fortress 3 ($2500 and an unlocked Android phone)
- Second place: oPennHouse ($1500)
- Third place: P eq NNP ($500)
And our sponsored prizes:
- Best Data-Oriented App, sponsored by WIMI: oPennHouse ($1000)
- Most User-Friendly App, sponsored by Monetate: Honey Oats (iPad)
- Best Use of Venmo API, sponsored by Venmo: P eq NNP ($500)
- Penn Choice Award, sponsored by First Round Capital: to be determined (by you!) ($1000)
Thanks to our judges and participants! More details on the awesome projects and presentations coming soon...
Demos start at noon
Posted on Sep 19, 2010
Looking over the shoulder of some of the teams. This stuff is REALLY good. You want to be @Weiss Tech House at noon for the demos. No joke.
Hacking Away
Posted on Sep 19, 2010
Demos & Presentations Tomorrow
Posted on Sep 19, 2010
With < 10 hours left, here's what tomorrow's going to look like:
Noon: code freeze. Judges walk around the Weiss Tech House and talk to the teams/take a look at the products.
1 PM: Lunch is served. Presentations begin in Wu & Chen Auditorium, on 34th and Walnut. 2 minute demo presentations. Judges ask questions.
2:30 PM: Judges announce winners. Awards are given out.
3 PM: Penn Student Choice voting begins.
It's been quite a weekend. See you Sunday - come see what we've built.
Hacking under way
Posted on Sep 18, 2010
PennApps is going strong with plenty of food and drinks to keep us going. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Weiss Tech House to join the fun; another night of hacking ahead! Check out our Facebook page for updates about how we're doing. Here are some pictures:
PennApps Tomorrow
Posted on Sep 16, 2010
PennApps is finally here! We heard some great ideas from the Pitch Competition tonight, congratulations to Houston Davidson for his winning pitch. Thanks to Google and Andreessen Horowitz for stopping by. Get ready for some hacking, see you tomorrow!
Don't forget to check out git.to/ideas if you're still looking for an idea/team.
Team Registration opens at noon.
Friday's Tech Talk Schedule
Posted on Sep 15, 2010
Get ready for some really cool and informative talks from Yahoo, Venmo, Facebook, and Twitter! You'll learn how to use their APIs to build something awesome. New to web development? No problem - we're also giving talks about general HTML, PHP, and everything you need to know to create a web or mobile application. Stop by Greenberg Lounge (Room 114 Skirkanich Hall) this Friday, here's the schedule:
| 12:30 PM | Introduction to all the APIs |
| 1 PM | Venmo |
| 2 PM | Twitter API |
| 3 PM | Front-end crash course (CSS, HTML, Javascript) |
| 4 PM | PHP/back-end crash course (Given by Yahoo!) |
| 5 PM | YQL |
| 6 PM | Django crash course |
| 7 PM |
Facebook API |
Check out last year's winners:
Judges
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Tom Hughes-Croucher is an Evangelist and Senior Developer in Yahoo's Open Strategy Group, focusing on Yahoo's Web Services and Cloud Platform. He is a member of the Open Source Working Group at Yahoo!. Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Tom has also contributed to numerous Open Source projects from large projects, like the Plone CMS, to small, such as a JavaScript library for statistical visualization.
Matt Amalfitano
My name is Matt Amalfitano and I'm a senior Health and Societies major. When I'm not running along the Schuylkill, eating terrible food, or playing too much Halo, I serve as the President of the Undergraduate Assembly. I'm in Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and do research on a crazy musculoskeletal disorder. I'm super pumped about PennApps and happy to be a part of it.
Josh Kowitt
Josh is the former CEO of Collegeboxes--a national collegiate shipping and storage firm. Named by Inc. Magazine as a "Top 30 Entrepreneur Under 30," Josh led the growth of Collegeboxes to 60 campuses and a 2008 acquisition by Store to Door (now owned by U-Haul). Today, Josh is a second year MBA student at The Wharton School and a former McKinsey Summer Associate. For fun, Josh enjoys flying small airplanes.
Scott Becker
Scott (EAS '08) is a highly technical entrepreneur, startup advisor, and angel investor. He was Co-Founder and CTO of Invite Media, a venture backed internet advertising startup acquired by Google in 2010. In 2009, he was named as one of businessweek's 25 entrepreneurs under 25. Scott graduated with a degree in compuational biology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Gabriel Weinberg
Gabriel Weinberg (http://ye.gg/) is a founding member of Hacker Angels and the founder of Duck Duck Go, a search engine. Previously he founded NamesDatabase, which was sold to United Online in 2006. Before that, Gabriel went to MIT in Physics and Technology Policy.
Tyler Ernst
My name is Tyler Ernst and I'm a rising junior in the M&T program hailing from Franklinville, NJ. At Penn, I study Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Marketing, and Finance. Additionally, I direct the Student Life Committee of the Undergraduate Assembly and I chair the Lambda Alliance. This past summer, I worked in the information services industry and focused on venture capital. Therefore, going into PennApps I believe my VC and marketing experience, as well as my direct connections to students and student life at Penn, will make me qualified to spot truly useful products with success potential.
Dave Jagoda
Currently, Dave is Director of Technical Talent at Andreessen-Horowitz. Previously, he was a Director of Engineering at Hewlett-Packard. Prior to that, Dave held a variety of positions at Opsware/Loudcloud, including Consulting Engineer, Support Engineer, Development Engineer, and Engineering Manager. Before Loudcloud, he was an Intranet Specialist at Netscape. He has also been a Support Engineer, Sales Engineer, and Software Developer at companies in industries such as Software, Investment Banking, and Telecommunications. He has B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia.
Alfred Hanssen
Currently, as founder and CEO of Tembo, a technology startup based in Philadelphia and funded by Dreamit Ventures and Startl.org, Alfie is working to create a portfolio of learning-focused social games for 13-18 year olds. Alfie most recently worked as COO of MCW Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership and entrepreneurship training for young people ages 16-35 in the USA, Tanzania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zambia. Prior to this, Alfie worked as a project manager for Intech Construction in Philadelphia, PA. He earned a BA in fine arts ('01) and an MSE in computer graphics and game technology ('07) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Suzanne Diamond
Professor Suzanne Diamond, an alumna of The Wharton School, specializes in qualitative research on convergent media. She studies the adoption of new technology and its impact on behavior. She also has expertise in discerning brand perceptions, and decision-making processes. Professor Diamond has extensive experience conducting focus groups, in-depth interviews, in-home observational research, segmentation studies and competitive intelligence projects for the leading television, newspaper, Internet, technology and financial companies.
Various
Luke Walker (Penn alum), Hunter Blanks, and Tom Janofsky are engineers at Monetate, a local startup that is the industry leading provider of testing, targeting and personalization software to internet retailers.
Sponsors Announced
We are happy to announce a number of our key sponsors. We're
excited and looking forward to working with leading online companies
and welcome their support of student innovation.
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