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Finally: The Low Down & The Scoop
Prizes:
1st Place: $1500 in Visa Gift Cards
Runner Up: $1050 in Visa Gift Cards
Thematic Winners: $350 on a Visa Gift Card (all Solo teams)
All the winners are invited to do a two week Tech Entrepreneurship Bootcamp with me for 2 weeks, full “Merit Scholarship” from July 31st to August 11th, and/or our (After-School) Magnet Program for Entrepreneurship this fall. Also full ride, can count as HS credit. It will cover:
1. Peak Personal Performance
2. Ideation & Design Thinking
3. Creative Marketing & Design
4. Growth Engineering & Data-Driven Marketing
5. Product Strategy & Management
6. User Experience Design & Communication
7. UI Design & Front-End Prototyping
8. Full Stack Prototyping & Engineering for Scale
9. Ops & Finance
10. Hacking College Admissions
All will get some kind of certificate and digital badge.
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Winners:
First Place:
Why?
WriteRight was the winner:
WriteRight seemed to build a more technically complex demo. They included highlights from “customer development” in a short, well edited video. Their slides for their presentation were more visually compelling, and their “positioning” addendum was very thoughtful. The team participated fully, with energy and enthusiasm. They were eager for coaching, and responded to input quickly.
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Runner Up:
Why?
The QuizHub demo was impressive. Their guiding thinking on what users need and why was compelling and clear. Their positioning addendum was thoughtful. The slideshow was good, and the landing page was also well designed. Their clean landing page showed they paid attention to marketing and visual design even if their demo prototype and presentation wasn’t designed in the same design system. Their narrative on DevPost was sparse tho, but they all came and presented, participated in discussions, came to office hours, and did the work.
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Thematic Winners:
Best Solo Project:
Why?
Comments on Safra.ai:
had a compelling demo, and we can still access it(note to other participants, we as judges love to play with the product ourselves!). The design is clean. It’s clear the team took on a technically challenging project and used a cutting edge tech stack.
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Best Use of Figma for Design & Marketing Work:
Why?
Steven had a compelling vision, and as a team of one he chose to focus on using Figma and creating a design system, brand, look and feel, and did the kind of UX and UI work that is market standard these days.
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Best Project With Pre-Existing Work:
Why?
Super technically impressive, used a lot of APIs which I have never seen before, as a developer this seems like the type of project it would take me a good amount of time/might not be able to figure out how to make. Kudos to the team on that! Definitely also solves a real need, considering students are often disengaged w/o teachers knowing.
Their pitch video was well edited, their slides were clean and compelling. The product vision is compelling and needed. The demo was working and seemed impressive. They got the most “votes” — they spammed their friends and family and it worked!
They admitted they had worked on the product before the hackathon, and the honesty is appreciated!
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Best Product Design:
Why?
Even though Jayden admitted to using a template with Django, you could tell he’s developed an eye for great product design. It looked fantastic!
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