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

Kevin Chan (TA), Evan Azari (iOS), Alexander McElroy (Backend), Yuna Shin (TA)

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

Annamalai Annamalai (iOS), Lily Croskey Englert (iOS), Kevin Chen (Backend), Zhengxun Wu (Backend), Joe Fulgieri (TA)

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

Kevin Chan (TA), Cindy Huang (Design), Yuxuan Chen (iOS), Haiying Weng (iOS), Leo Liang (Backend), Conner Swenberg (TA)

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

 

See our previous winners:

Spring 2018

Fall 2018