Mobile App Hackathon is a 24 hour competition designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. This hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.

We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. Along with technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools.

You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!

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Event Schedule

PRE-EVENT - Thursday, February 12th

6PM - Hon New Tech is hosting a pre-Hackathon event and sneak peek of the new ROC co-working space in Chinatown. This pre-event is for networking and idea pitches to meet potential teammates. 

Food provided by Cocina 

RSVP & More Info: Here

Day 1 - Friday, February 13th

Registration begins at 4PM at the Sullivan Center on Iolani's campus,  3rd Floor.

6PM Registration Closes

6PM - Kickoff event at Iolani School with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation.
7PM - Speakers present (please see below for list)
8PM - Pitch ideas and form teams
Day 2 - Saturday, February 14th

10AM - The fun continues at Iolani School with breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec’d. Senseis will be available throughout the entire day to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM.
2PM - Lunch is Served
6PM - Pencils down. Please sign up your teams to present via this link: http://bit.ly/hackprezreg.

2Pitches start promptly at 6PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.  
Prizes

The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:

Best Overall Mobile App
1st Place - $5000 in gift cards for the team to split
Best Use of AT&T M2X APIs
1st Place - $500 in gift cards for the team to split

Best Use of UI
1st Place - $500 in gift cards for the team to split

 Best Mobile App for Government Services & Resources

(i.e. building locations, permits/licenses, other information)
1st Place - $500 in gift cards for the team to split

Judging Criteria

Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.  

33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does
33% Weight - Originality of idea
34% Weight - Technically Innovating

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Speakers

Alex Donn, Senior Marketing Manager at AT&T, 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 corporations and business leaders. He loves bacon and is allergic to gluten and nightshades. On rare nights he can be found camping out in the solitude of the wildness amongst the mother nature's fines creations.

Mark Watkins is the founder of The Hawaii Project, a prelaunch startup in the books space. Mark was previously Head of Product for Telenav, after their acquisition of goby, where he was ceo and co-founder. goby is a mobile recommendation engine for finding fun things to do. Prior to goby, Mark led R&D at Endeca, an information access platform acquired by Oracle for $1.1B. He is an advisor to Firecracker, a Techstars mentor, and a frequent speaker at search, travel and digital media events.

 

    Mentors/Sensei's

Jason Sewell

DevLeague Instructor / Curriculum Designer / Co-Founder DevLeague
Jason has been a web developer for just shy of a decade, starting with building freelance e-commerce projects while still in college to developing heavily trafficked global enterprise level systems and interfaces.

Jason previously served as Senior Programmer/Analyst at Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, and has since founded award-winning Hawaii based software development shop Sudokrew specializing in leading edge web application development. He now is happy to take that experience and share it with the next generation of developers.

He has a beard....always.

Jon Borgonia

DevLeague Lead Instructor / Curriculum Designer

Jon has been developing websites professionally for over 12 years in Hawaii, co-owns a marketing firm Humanhand, founded a small game development company Goma Games in 2011, and is involved with STEM education across the Hawaiian island’s. Jon's vision is to inspire students to be leaders and share this passion through programming. He is currently working on several projects toward this vision; one project brings aspects of leadership education to games, and another brings elements of games to education.

Kelli Borgonia

DevLeague Graphic Design Instructor

Kelli is responsible for the design, art direction, and architectural design (UI/UX) of Goma Games projects. In addition to design, Kelli enjoys illustrating characters for interactive games and children's books. Goma Games projects always feature her iconic style, whether it is in a ultra cute interactive story (Baden the Brontosaur) or a stylish retro game (Jet Pack Turkey). Kelli's personal motto is to "every day design a better world, and have fun doing it." Inspiring others to do the same (through classes and workshops) is a part of that vision.

Ray Farias

DevLeague Instructor

Ray has been involved with computer technologies and culture for many years, building sites for friends, family, and working on personal projects as well as being an avid gamer. In 2013 he decided to pursue a career in web development and became a graduate of DevLeague's first cohort. Ray is now working as a professional Web Developer in Hawaii and is passionate about improving technology awareness in local businesses and inspiring other young people to code.

Tony Gaskell

 DevLeague Instructor

Tony is a full stack developer for local agency Sudokrew, a full stack JavaScript focused web development shop in Honolulu. He has long taken an interest in the software community. Tony was one of the founding members of the Grey Hat network security student group at the University of Hawaii of Manoa, has written anime language transcription software, and has been very active in the local developer community. He recently led his team to a 2nd place finish at Startup Weekend for an application dedicated to changing voter behavior. Truly a jack of all codes, Tony eats, breathes and sleeps(?) code and devotes many off hours as a mentor to younger developers  

George Lee

DevLeague Instructor

George has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Hawai'i, a Bachelors in Mathematics from the University of Washington and is Senior Software Architect at renowned international agency Ikayzo on a team made of world class designers, Ph.D. computer scientists and authors, specializing in finance, government, fashion and e-commerce. His interests include web / mobile applications and he has worked with numerous technology stacks including Ruby on Rails, Django, NodeJS and iOS as well as web client frameworks such as jQuery and Angular. He is also the organizer for OhanaJS, Honolulu's JavaScript users group, and has done several presentations for tech users groups in Hawaii

David Chin

David N. Chin is a Professor and Chair of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He received his B.S. from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he developed UC, the UNIX Consultant, an intelligent agent that answers questions about the UNIX operating system and infers a model of the user's knowledge of UNIX from the interaction. David is an internationally recognized expert in the field of user modeling. He has served on the editorial board of the international journal, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction since its inception in 1990 and has guest edited eights special issues. Dr. Chin has published over 58 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited 1565 times (Google Scholar) and has been the PI or co-PI on 20 grants/contracts totaling $3.9 million. He has previously served as Vice-Chair (2006-7) and then Chair (2007-8) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Faculty Senate.

Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson is a Professor and Associate Chair of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii, and CEO of Open Power Quality, Inc. His interests include software engineering, renewable energy, outrigger canoe paddling, CrossFit, and electric guitar.

Monir Hodges

Monir Hodges is a Software Engineer/Professor at Honolulu Community College - Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT) a not-for-profit consortium of University of Hawaii Community Colleges with a mission to provide advanced technology-training opportunities for the state of Hawaii and has been providing training for more than 15 years. She is a Professor at University of Hawaii-Honolulu Community College teaching non-credit and credit courses in application development, Android and iPhone mobile application development, animation and gaming with Unity3d technology, and web design with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery in the Communication Arts Dept. and PCATT. She also is a Webmaster and technology advisor with regards to software solutions and leading edge technology training at PCATT.

She has offered iPhone mobile app development to Kamehameha Schools and presented at Hawaii Small Business Fair offering a session on Mobile Apps and Small Business.  She has presented workshops at PCATT IT Summit, a yearly event for educators to learn about the leading edge technology and education.

Dr. Lipyeow Lim

An Associate Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to joining the University of Hawaii, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T J Watson Research Center where he was involved in the development of DB2 pureXML, DB2 index compression and Infosphere Streams. His current research interests are energy efficient mobile sensing and data analytics for renewable energy management. When not working, he practices and teaches a chinese martial art called I Liq Chuan.

Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell is an Adjunct Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. His focus is on information security with interests in assessment, user education, privacy, and policy development. Michael is currently leading several projects in network defense, such as hardening closed systems (yes, they still need it!), and researching trends on malicious cyber actors use of social media.

Judges

 David Ige

Governor, State of Hawai'i

David Lassner

President, University of Hawai'i

Mark Wong

 CIO/Director, City and County of Honolulu 

Todd Ogasawara

Broadband Specialist, State of Hawai'i

Spencer Toyama

Sudokrew

Justin Hernandez

Software Engineer

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