Drum roll please!! The moment that you all have been waiting for… here are the winners from our 2014 Global Virtual Hackathon!
Top Hacker Category
First Place: Team WunderBruders
- Theme: Introducing software development to a beginner (games!)
- Cash Prize: $8,000 + $2,500 (Elance-ODesk) + $1,000 (Count.ly) = $11,500. Non-cash prizes: $5000 in credits from Digital Ocean, One year of service from Tutum, $5,500 service credit from Firebase (recently acquired by Google).
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Second Place: Team Coddee Break
- Theme: Problems facing our planet, explained using interactive data visualization. (e.g. climate change, earthquakes, food/water waste, accessibility related issues, etc.)
- Prize: $4,000 + $2,000 (nginx) + $1,000 (PubNub) = $7,000
- Team page
Third Place: Team WaterPistols
- Theme: HTML5 games that are educational and learning oriented. (multiplayer preferred)
- Prize: $2,000
- Team page
Student Hacker Category
First Place: Team Unknown Exception
- Theme: No one reads the fine print (ie TOS, EULA, legal documents) anymore yet every site has them. Devise a creative/interactive solution.
- Prize: $1,500 + $1,000 (Mashape API) = $2,500
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Second Place: Team CE
- Theme: No one reads the fine print (ie TOS, EULA, legal documents) anymore yet every site has them. Devise a creative/interactive solution.
- Prize: $1,000
- Team page
Third Place: Team Carter
- Theme: Introducing software development to a beginner (games!)
- Prize: $500
- Team page
Apprentice Hacker Category
First Place: Team BitsPlease
- Theme: HTML5 games that are educational and learning oriented. (multiplayer preferred)
- Prize: $1,200
- Team page
Second Place: Team Average Joes
- Theme: HTML5 games that are educational and learning oriented. (multiplayer preferred)
- Prize: $800
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Third Place: Team MoeABM
- Theme: No one reads the fine print (ie TOS, EULA, legal documents) anymore yet every site has them. Devise a creative/interactive solution.
- Prize: $500
- Team page
Additional Prizes for using specific partner APIs
- APITools: Team IOsalli (Prize: $1,500)
- Sprintly: Team Code Crafters (Prize: $1,000)
- 3SCale: Team Codeepy (Prize: $1,500)
Special recognition prizes
These teams were in the Top 20 so we are extending the awards and giving all their team members a full year of the Koding Hobbyist Plan!
- Team revolTOS
- Team Infamy
- Team Oka.io
- Team GrafD
- Team DevOps
- Team Ninjas in the Box
- Team Mindvalley Steam
- Team Fluffle
- Team Croders
- Team Chu Bao
- Team ChennaiNerd
- Team Khatri
- Team Shamas
- Team PALPHP
- Team cool_kid_alert
As a special recognition from the Koding team, we are giving a $250 award to Team DoRobotsDreamOfElectricSheep.
A HUGE congratulations to all the winners and also to all who participated. You’ve all made this event such a success!
THANKS!
