Presenters
- Mark Albert, Director, University Web & Identity Services, The George Washington University
- Andrew Yu, Founder and CTO, Modo Labs, Inc.
- Matthew Willmore, mobileND Program Manager, University of Notre Dame
Goal was to get the tools for managing web apps into the hands of non-technical people at universities, so that they could make amazing apps themselves.
Schools participating in this event iteration included:
- George Washington
- Harvard
- Florida State University
- Notre Dame
- Arizona State University
FSU
- 14 teams, 56 students competing in total
- Students and university benefited from this competition
- We like the fact that through this competition, we can see exactly what student want
- Students enjoyed the experience
- “NutitioNOLE” was the winner at FSU
- Eat, move learn
George Washington
- Great way to raise awareness of the platform
- Better understand how students wish to use their mobile devices
- Better understand the gap between the app and student needs
- To get the word out, we did posters, postcards, email blast, reminders to students in class
- 80+ students; 12 teams competed
- Outstanding ideas from our students
- Modo’s support was great
- 2nd place: parking app
- 1st place: Gworld – campus ID card: dining/retail, printing, load $$, places to study
ASU
- Fun and competitive environment to find out what our students want
- Marketed via web site, My ASU banner ads, email
- 10 teams, great wide-ranging ideas
- Of our judges, each had a different winner
- 2nd place: travel on campus
- 1st place: ASUFit – targets fitness culture and social engagement
Harvard
- Driven by student interest; strong culture of hackathons; event that allowed non-programmers to participate
- Marketed via Student IT interest groups, student houses, SoMe, school CIOs
- Intense, collaborative, inspiring
- 2nd place: dining app that includes nutritional information so students can choose the correct
- 1st place: bliss, a resource for maintaining mental health
Notre Dame
- Always seeking opportunities to engage students in real-world development and design
- Equal interest in students with and without technical chops
- First opportunity for us to see how well students could use Publisher
- Proved to us that we can use students more to manage our mobile app material
- Marketed via: campus flyers, table tents, email, banner and home screen icon, co-promotion with other like events
- 7 teams
- 2nd place: Rate My Plate – allows students to provide feedback about dining services.
- 1st place: Mary’s View – highly visual way to find events of interest around campus; incorporates maps so students can find events near their location.
Judges & Judging Criteria
- Chris Barrows, NYU
- Jenny Gluck, Syracuse
- Julia Zaga, Uber
- Santhana Naidu, Indiana State
- Sarah Hoch, GE Power
- Eric Kim, Modo Labs
- Judging Criteria: address challenge of improving campus life; creativity and innovation; design/user experience; completeness
Harvard’s “Bliss” App is the winner!