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2012 - Lee Bash, Walt Grata, Tom St John, Cheeyoon Lee, Andrew Shafer, Chad Whitacre, Aaron Zhang
2012 - Lee Bash, Walt Grata, Tom St John, Cheeyoon Lee, Andrew Shafer, Chad Whitacre, Aaron Zhang
As part of the first anual 2013 Pittsburgh Thinkathon & National Day of Civic Hacking, our team and I developed an interactive website designed to help students track their eligibility for the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program.
"For instance, students could see the minimum GPA needed for the scholarship and where they stand in comparison, and what they must maintain moving forward to reach the Promise. The site also has a calculator to show students how much they could earn from the Promise, and it has the ability to send reminders to students to go to school.
A major hurdle to overcome is establishing the security and getting data needed to create student specific tools — both issues shouldn’t too difficult technically, but they anticipated the logistics might be hard."
This was also Thinkerous' first sponsored event & personally my first hackathon to participate in. I was handling all design and UI elements of the website, although we ran short in time to properly style the calcuator and subscribe pages. PGHPR, at the end of the day won the event. Thinkerous provided the platform to host the ideation and datasets for the entire 2-day event. Needless to say as our first official beta test, the event went very well and our site didn't crash :)
PGHPR: http://pghpr.com
Thinkathon & Sponsors: http://thinkathon.co
