PennApps

We’re excited to be giving out over $15,000 in prizes this weekend! This list will be updated as our sponsors update us on any other prizes they’ll be distributing, but you can see details for all prizes here.

Main Prizes

• Grand Prize: $4000 + a trip to the Google NYC office to demo your office to Google Engineers, a paid trip to the Facebook College Hackathon Finals, and automatic entry into Greylock Hackfest 2
• Second Place: $2000
• Third place: $1000
• The Outsiders: $1000 Top Non-Penn Team [over half of the team must be a visiting hacker]
• Organizers Choice: $500 Dude They Totally Shoulda Won a Prize [to the team the organizers choose as the top team that didn’t win any main or sponsored prize]

Sponsored Prizes

• Bay Area Favorite: $1000 from KPCB
• Dead Simple: $1000 from Venmo
• Most Technically Challenging: $500 from a16z
• Most Viral: $500 from AddThis
• Most Helpful: $500 from Dropbox
• Best Social-Enabled App: $500 from Facebook
• Student Choice Award: $500 from First Round Capital
• Most Ingenious: $500 from Lore
• Best Life Sciences/Healthcare App: $500 from NextDocs
• Best Mobile Hack: $500 from Yahoo
• $500 from 10gen for the hack most useful for students incorporating scalability and ease of use

Other Prizes

• Twilio: Arduino Kit for the best Twilio hack
• Mashery: Big Jambox for the best use of a mashery API 
• Dropbox: 10GB of space for any team that uses the Dropbox API
• Github: Hoodies and Octocat Patches for 3 teams that open source reusable code on Github
• MongoDB: MongoDB goodie bag for the best use of MongoDB
• Filepicker: Nexus 7 and a trophy for the best filepicker.io integration
• ‘Doing backend yourself sucks’: $100 for the best use of Cloudmine