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all registered participants got swags - wooden toys, stickers and t-shirts

Hackathon participants are happy to make new friends while working on the projects

Pollution team

Team members:

Morgan Stroud, Zachary Sheehan, Anthony Grice (Junior), Jasmine Pyle

In addition to the crystal award all team members received one year PressReader subscription to all major magazines, journals and other digital media on their choice.

We appreciate our partner, AT&T, who lobbied with vigor to have kids involved more than we initially envisioned – it was amazingly inspirational and a learning experience for all! We discovered that our high schoolers are way more tech savvy than previous generations. They are thoughtful, engaged and collaborative, responsible and capable. The startup bug bit them at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!

The Hackathon process was as follows:

Warm-up with Design Thinking challenge > Pitching ideas > Recruiting and forming teams > Building time > Presenting the solution > Judging > Celebrating.

Participants are forming the line to pitch their ideas now

The startup bug bit kids at the Hackathon – we can expect more tech entrepreneurs coming… Let’s cultivate this spirit!

Special OpenHub prize - WebDev Bootcamp scholarship - worth $2,500 - was granted to Sugey Vaquero, NFA PTECH student. She is excited to learn real life skills at Web Development

Public Transportation team 

Team members: Israel Pagan, Kevin Leto - PTECH students from NFA - pitching their project in front of HVTechFest Hackathon jury

Our guests and leaders - with Newburgh Free Academy, PTECH