Winners
We're excited to announce the winners!
- Best use of the Twilio API (sponsored by Twilio) - Lerner, by Zhehao (Howie) Mao
- Best game (sponsored by Microsoft) - Beer Battle by Augusto Corvalan, Andrew Funcheon, Trevor Marshall, Moses Nakamura, and Andrew Stenvall
- Best pre-existing app (sponsored by 10gen) - ParkAlly by Sid Shanker, Mason Silber, and Zach Reitano
- Best UI design - Situity by Alex Golec, Calvin Hu, Simon McGown, George Valdes, Ming Norman Tsui, and David Zhai
- Best first hack - CookNooks by Sophie Chou
- Most technically difficult - FreeSeat by Aditya Mukerjee and Zach Newman
- Best business model - ResearchMatch by Yifan Li, Ryder Moody, Alex Poon, and Rebecca Sealfon
- Overall 3rd - HelpRoom by Dina Lamdany and Elie Toubiana
- Overall 2nd - omnified by Yufei Liu
- Overall 1st - Scheduler by Sid Nair
Prizes included Kindles, Xboxes, and $500! For a full list of hacks, check out our HackerLeague page.
Sponsors
Panelists
- Fred Wilson, VC and principal of Union Square Ventures
- Chris Wiggins, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
- Dave Jagoda, Andreessen Horowitz
- Ryan Bubinski, Codecademy
- Tarikh Korula, Uncommon Projects
A New Type of Tech Event
DevFest is a collaboration between student groups, VC firms, startups, and Columbia departments to provide aspiring student developers with the necessary support framework to build a complete application over the span of one week as they iterate upon their ideas, experiment with new technologies and concepts, and add value in non-technical ways.
A Hackathon
DevFest will kick off Saturday, Jan. 28 at 1pm in the Davis Auditorium at Columbia with a catered social event for all participants and a 24-hour hackathon.
We'll have numerous experienced students and alumni developers present to help with any questions you have.
A Demofest
On Saturday, Feb. 4 at noon in the Davis Auditorium, we'll serve lunch and then teams will reconvene to demo their project for a general audience, including representatives of startups and VCs from NYC and the Bay Area.
Workshops
Monday through Friday will be filled with workshops and lectures covering topics in technology, entrepreneurship, business, and networking to help teams with their development efforts. We'll announce details soon.
Eligibility
Participating team members must be full-time students enrolled in a high school, undergraduate, or graduate program. Each team may present one entry during the concluding demo fest at Davis Auditorium in Columbia University at 11:30am on Saturday, Feb. 4. All events are open to the general public, unless specified otherwise by the hosting party.
Registration
All event participants must register. Interested individuals may organize as a team before or during DevFest, or submit an individual project. Registration is now closed as the event is over.
Schedule
You can take a look at the full-view here.