HackingEDU
3 min readDec 20, 2015

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HACKINGEDU WINNERS!

We honestly wish we could award everyone who submitted a project (actually, check your emails, we sent you some freebies!). Students from around the world gathered to compete, and now that the dust has settled, let’s take a moment to applaud the efforts of all our winners!

HackingEDU EDTech Champions — Swift Tutor

HackingEDU 2nd Place Winner — Hack Chair.js

HackingEDU 3rd Place Winner — Cell VR

Big thanks to all our sponsors once again!

Best .Club Name — Get With The Club

Best use of .Club — Schola

Automattic Social Good Prize — edubook.me

Best use of Back& — De Mobo Classroom and TheToilet.Club

Capital One API Prize — Change

Best Use of Chegg API — Cheggslist

Best use of Dolby — Happy 50th Dolby!

GlobalCommit: Social Good Award — Schola

Best Leap Motion Hack — GraphMotion and VirtuaBoard

Best Use of Linode Services — QuizPrep

Best Collaboration Hack using Moxtra SDK/API — SpeechHacks

Namecheap Best Domain Main Prize — plsfind.me

Best use of Braintree API — The Sponsor Club

Coolest Pebble Hack! — Forget Me Not (aka. Morten’s Fanclub), Alang &DailEQs

Rubicon — Schola

Best Use of Target API — Shopping Cart Math

Top Myo Hack — MyoMusic

Best use of Twilio API — Text2Learn

Twist: BEST UX + UI Challenge — EduPod.club — Vulcan Learning for Humans

Design the Future of WikiHow — Toucan

Best use to the Wolfram Technologies — EduPod.club — Vulcan Learning for Humans

HackingEDU Staff Picks: LearnMotion, Visionary Box, and Sponsor Club!

Top Prizes for the HackerRank Challenge!

HackerRank is a platform that ranks engineers by coding skills and helps companies discover talent based on their skill. With a rapidly growing community of over 1 million engineers, HackerRank aims to replace resumes with code challenges to create a more meritocratic filter.

Congratulations to the Top 20 Winners!

  1. quanyang from National University of Singapore with a whopping 800 points!
  2. ntzamos representing University of Athens!
  3. zillwc from New York University placing 3rd!
  4. Sino_ from Montclair State University!
  5. nishantmendi & nupoork tied, both from San Jose State University!
  6. ss110922, pakh007 from University of California, Irvine, thehydrogen from Howard University, ayfeng from University of California, Irvine and BharathKKB all tied!
  7. anwar1 from University of California, Berkeley !
  8. vanshady representing University of California, Davis!
  9. akivuls coming from California State University, Long Beach!
  10. ryanchoi93 placed 15th!
  11. wizphil placed 16th!
  12. adamsx97 all the way from University of the Philippines!
  13. jiahua from University of Southern California!
  14. And Abashin from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, abnicken from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, SritamM, prudhvil coming from University of California, Berkeley, and wangaz of University of California, Davis all tied! What an awesome finish!

We want to give one more massive thank you to everyone who came to the event! We hope that you take your projects to the next level and keep striving to improve education and #InventTheFuture!

- The HackingEDU Team