Tuesda , November 6, 2012 TechNews campus@technewsiit.com UTSAV GANDHI 3 Nokia sponsored Hackathon challenges students to create apps, promotes teamwork, presentation skills By Kristal Copeland COPY EDITOR How do you create something in 24 hours? You go to Hackathon! Saturday, October 20, Monkeybars held a Nokia sponsored Hackathon in the ldeaShop. Before the actual event, most people were intimidated by the idea of 24 hours of straight hacking, but going to the events leading up to the big day seemed to calm a few nerves 1 was only able to go to the last event, where I met Andy and Adrian, we quickly formed a team, because we had no idea what any of us were doing, and frankly I was going to create and headed to our respective homes to prepare for the big day On Saturday, most teams arrived early and a few who needed extra members recruited some of the people who were not in teams, we recruited Ramsey and we called ourselves Level Up! After our potential application, Monkeybars informed us of the community fridge they would be housing some much needed caffeine and water, for which everyone was thankful and took full advantage. After finally sitting and beginning to work, many saw the first unfortunate problem , the Internet on one side of the ldeaShop was flaky Many teams spoke of how you could only get a connection for about 10 minutes before being kicked off, on all 4 or 5 possible wifi connections Three hours later, my team actually moved to use the Macs when we realized the Internet worked perfectly fine on that side of the room! We got to work, and after a while Monkeybars brought out some rather delicious food, whereas I was expecting the same old pizza, and would continue to do so throughout the night. My team did not want to spend too much time eating and not enoughprogramming, so most of the times food was brought out; we simply ate it while programming During this time, we were all forced to learnthings we had not previously learned or seen for a very long time. Adrian and Ramsey had to learn Android development, I had to become much more competent at graphic design, and Andy , who had a bit of exp erience from a while back , did the vast majority of all the programming Around 06:00, we were all feeling the stretch, but we team did not give up. We were all constantly trying to find more and more to do so that we could have our project completed within the 24 hours (which was slightly extended due to a late start). I took a very short nap that terrified. 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We s aw the other teams’ projects and were intimidated yet again with such ideas as aplane that could be controlled via phone movement, a much more efficient way of reporting errors to the right places on campus, an onetheecloud application that could control and check the status of your garage door from anywhere in the world, and an application that makes it easier to find events happening at IIT M a ny t e a m s unfortunately went over time, so we vowed to be as concise as possible while sticking to our most important information. After we went, quite a lot of people really liked our application, and we went home feeling very excited to even have recognition of our hard work. M 0 n d a y , October 29th was Demo Day at TechNexus, where we had to give our presentations again in front of a few companies looking for potential employers Zebra, Gogo, and Coyote. ‘The winners have already been picked’, we told ourselves in a vain effort to keep from being anxious. A f t e r t h e presentations, the companies were very excited to talk to the different groups, and we were awarded second place overall! All in all it was a very productive two days and I am extremely glad I got the courage to go in the first place. A s a n attendee who enjoyed the entire experience and will be returning next time, I thank Monkeybars, Nokia, TechNexus, and the Nerdery, as well as my teammates Andy, Adrian and Ramsey, for making my silly spreadsheet a reality, this would not have been possible without all of you.