Hackathon 2019

Ludmila Smirnova, Mark Tourtelott, Eric Hinsdale represent EdTech, Web Design and Open Data expertise available for Hackathoners

We appreciate our partner, AT&T, who lobbied with vigor to have kids involved more than we initially envisioned – it was amazingly inspirational and a learning experience for all! We discovered that our high schoolers are way more tech savvy than previous generations. They are thoughtful, engaged and collaborative, responsible and capable. The startup bug bit them at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!

setting up.

Andrea Tejedor, the fearless HVTechFest Hackathon leader, is rushing to the stage to announce the next step

The Hackathon process was as follows:

Warm-up with Design Thinking challenge > Pitching ideas > Recruiting and forming teams > Building time > Presenting the solution > Judging > Celebrating.

Participants are forming the line to pitch their ideas now

it was a great warm up challenge allowing kids to start thinking differently

The startup bug bit kids at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!

Special OpenHub prize - WebDev Bootcamp scholarship - worth $2,500 - was granted to Sugey Vaquero, NFA PTECH student. She is excited to learn real life skills at Web Development

It was exciting to see 120+ professionals working side by side with youth, and competing equally.
We discovered that our high schoolers are way more tech savvy than previous generations. They are thoughtful, engaged and collaborative, responsible and capable.

These amazing NFA students are committed to solve their community challenge - Newburgh's poverty! They know how technology can change people's lives, and they have a specific solution.

Public Transportation team 

Team members: Israel Pagan, Kevin Leto - PTECH students from NFA - pitching their project in front of HVTechFest Hackathon jury

The Hackathon revealed how the youth are driven to solve Hudson Valley employability & professional sustainability challenges. We were excited to see that we are all aligned in our dream of making the Hudson Valley a better place to live and work, and leveraging technology as a practical tool for this rising tide! 

Our guests and leaders - with Newburgh Free Academy, PTECH

Design challenge was fun and help participants make new friends, warm up with out-of-the box thinking and brainstorming

TechDojo team  

Team members: Cheryl Schneider, Dominick Piaquadio, Ricky Lau, Steven Cina, Rahul  Joseph.

The solution used 1Ci platform to build a prototype, it took only 30 minutes using 1Ci platform instead of 2 hours of coding

all registered participants got swags - wooden toys, stickers and t-shirts

Bill Fioravanti from Orange County Economic Development and Anthony Grice from Newburgh City Council are celebrating the inaugural Hudson Valley developers festival and awarding the HVTechFest founder Yulia Ovchinnikova.

Hackathon participants are happy to make new friends while working on the projects

1C:Enterprise is the globally adopted rapid business application development platform and a world-wide development network. 1Ci leader Konstantin Rupasov is showing how to use platform to prototype the solution

Pollution team

Team members:

Morgan Stroud, Zachary Sheehan, Anthony Grice (Junior), Jasmine Pyle

In addition to the crystal award all team members received one year PressReader subscription to all major magazines, journals and other digital media on their choice.