PennApps
PennApps is a 48-hour hackathon (app development competition) at the University of Pennsylvania where the top student engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs from universities all over the US come together to showcase technical achievements and compete for cash prizes.
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PennApps Winners
Sorry for the delay, folks! The list of all winners is below (you can see the list of projects here, what the prizes actually are here, and videos of the demos are up on Youtube)!
Main Prizes
- Grand Prize: Java Auto Music [video]
- Second Place: Snap Site [video]
- Third place: Passwarp [video]
- The Outsiders [top non-Penn team]: PayTango [video]
- Organizers Choice: lpControl [video]
Sponsored Prizes
- Bay Area Favorite: Batt Signal [video]
- Dead Simple: It’s A Date [video]
- Most Delicious UI: Facebook for Grandma [video]
- Most Technically Challenging: Java Auto Music
- Most Viral: Hack My Facebook [video]
- Most Helpful: upenn.co [video]
- Best Social-Enabled App: Snap Site
- Student Choice Award: PayTango
- Most Ingenious: Snap Site
- Best Life Sciences/Healthcare App: Troll Spice [video]
- Best Mobile Hack: Perimeter [video]
- Hack most useful for students: Notable [video]
API Prizes
- Most Innovative Use of SendGrid: Emailr [video]
- Best use of any of Mashery’s APIs: Just Ask For It [video]
- Best use of Cloudmine: TruckMeNow [video]
- Best Use of MongoDB: PayTango
- Best integration of filepicker.io: Alchemy [video]
- Best use of IKANOW Infinit.e API: Terrorism Visualization [video]
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