Hack Challenge
The semesterly hackathon for students enrolled in our courses. Building real projects for real prizes from real companies.
Why not a final exam?
Portfolio Piece
Whether it’s developing a mobile app, building a robust backend system, or designing a user-friendly product, we strongly believe that the best way to learn something is by doing. We want students to not only gain practical skills in design or development, but also to leave the course with tangible projects they can showcase on their resume or portfolio.
Interdisciplinary
With 150+ students each semester, the semesterly Hack Challenge allows for students to have this opportunity. The Hack Challenge involves students across all our course, and each group of 3-5 students works together to create a functional, polished app to showcase by the end of the semester.
Previous Winners
Fall 2021
BEST Overall WINNER
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Dylan McCreesh, Jennifer Gu, Erin Xu, Inle Bush
BEST BACKEND WINNER
Cumulus
Adam Cahall, Bella Hoie, Daniel Wei, Mateo Weiner, Teresa Huang
MOST CREATIVE WINNER
Meme&Meet
Alex Jialin Shen, Santiago Lai, Chuhan Ouyang, Grace Yizhen Chen, Yutong Zhu
BEST UI WINNER
Reserve
Brian Sanchez, Jensen Andre, Francisco Kyriacou, Joseph Tung, Ibrahim Ismail
Spring 2019
Overall Winner
Crumble
Crumble is a cooking app in which the user types in the ingredients they’d like to use in cooking a meal and the app will provide a list of popular recipes that you can make using those ingredients.
Designed & Developed by
Nathan Stack, Will Tappen, Beth Mieczkowski, Yue Sun
Best Media App
InstaAesthetic
InstaAesthetic provides a color analysis of an Instagram user's most recent posts. After logging in, and entering a public Instagram account name, the app provides you the most frequent colors of the six most recent posts.
Designed & Developed by
Evan Azari, Jordan Epstein, Alexander McElroy
Best Backend Integration
StockAlert
Stock Alert is an mobile assistant that lets you search and track your most important stocks.
Designed & Developed by
Annamalai Annamalai, Lily Croskey Englert, Zhengxun Wu, Kevin Chen
Judge’s Choice
Foodie
Foodie is an app that allows users to find free food or upload a free food event on Cornell’s campus.
Designed & Developed by
Haiying Weng, Yuxuan Chen, Cindy Huang, Leo Liang