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Prize Winners
Dsyfer
1st Place
TeamSoylent, with members Mehul Ajith and Mohamed Sudheer, created a great application to help people with difficulty reading which landed them first place at our event. Their application, Dsyfer (pronounced like decipher), took a picture of text and converted it into a very accurate voiceover of the text... Read More
RainDrop
2nd Place
Team Blue took 2nd place with their beautiful weather app, RainDrop. They created a weather app that allowed the user to quickly check the maximum and minimum temperature through the use of a complex algorithm. The application sends a notification if the min and max temperature have a... Read More
PiDog
3rd Place
Team PiDogs, with team members Mark Muranov and Nick Lyubenko, took 3rd place with their robot and software that helps those with special needs navigate around. They built their own robot and created voice activated software that sends commands to a server that processes the picture using... Read More
Project Sunshine
Hack Harassment Category
Team members Cecily Kaufmann, Michael Kaufmann, and David Heiser created a Google Chrome extension called The Happiness Generator to win the Hack Harassment prize. Their team endeavored to end internet harassment one word at a time by locating offensive words and replacing them with kinder... Read More
Chrome Guardian
Domain.com Category
Team SHIELD won the Domain.com prize with their Google Chrome extension called Chrome Guardian which helps children discover the internet safely. Parents are often very nervous when it comes to letting their child use the internet, knowing that there is some bad stuff out there. Team SHIELD’s extension... Read More
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