Congratulations Code for Change winners!

Congratulations to all the teams who entered and to all the challengers who participated!

Grand Prize: CERT Mobile App, solution to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) challenge. CERT Mobile is an easy-to-use app to help facilitate communication and information exchange among volunteer emergency responders in the immediate wake of a disaster.   Team members: Aaron Pelzer, Panela Leung, and Jacqueline Gordon.

Change Prize:  VoteScope, solution to the NYC Campaign Finance Board - Voter Assistance Advisory Committee challenge.  VoteScope app provides citizens with the information to engage with the democratic process, and fosters higher voter participation in elections.  Team members:  Jeremy Baron, Valentina Camacho, Sarah Davidson, Maria Rabinovich, Nathan Storey, Rene Yap.

Promise Prize:  FloatingPin, solution to the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development challenge.  FloatingPin is a virtual campus bulletin board that enables students to exchange, rather than buy, textbooks – and defrays their higher-education costs. Team members: Kiran Koduru, Amit Lama, Panela Leung, Raju Maharjan, Milan Shrestha.

Popular Choice Prize:  Bookmark’d, solution to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship challenge.  Bookmark’d is a new platform enabling middle and high school students to write and share their own book reviews with one another, and creating a space for online reader discussion groups about literature. Team members: Yangbo Du, Panela Leung, Meera Ravi, Becky Scott, Kevin Shi.

Code for Change will be following up with networking and opportunities with all teams regardless of their outcome. 

For more information, visit http://applicationsforgood.org

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Calling All Coders (and Lots of Others): NYU Wagner’s “Code for Change” Wants You!

Calling all coders, designers, data scientists and other technologists to participate in a new kind of civic technology competition in New York this Fall! Want to win $10,000 and additional prizes helping solve some of New York City’s most pressing social problems? We invite you to join us as we remix hacking for good at NYU Wagner’s upcoming Code for Change.  The event kicks off on Friday, September 28th at NYU Wagner.

From our friends over at Code for America.

We’ve recently partnered with CfA along with a number of other organizations to create Code for Change, a pipeline initiative to address civic organizations’ greatest technology challenges by matching them with talented coders, designers, data scientists, and other innovators. To learn more about Code for Change, our partners and how you can get involved, check out the NYU Wagner Innovations Lab and Applications for Good websites.

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viewfromthebalcony: My personal favorite: “We’re a “Peace Corps for Geeks,” and you’re a geek with a giant heart.”

This article, via Atlantic Cities, features Code for America our partner for our upcoming innovation pipeline Code for Change.