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Photo credit: Elena Olivo
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The Fall 2010 Student Hackathon brought in hundreds of students from 30 universities to NYU's Courant Institute for 24 hours of creative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.
Selected startups presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, and students formed groups to brainstorm and begin coding on their ideas. Many students worked into the night, foregoing sleep to fulfill their visions.
On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel, which selected the final winners.
hackNY hosts hackathons one each semester, as well as a Summer Fellows Program, which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment, a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student are expected to compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup.
For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackNY.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY
New York University was founded in 1831 by Thomas Jefferson's treasury secretary, Albert Gallatin. It is located Greenwich Village (although it has other campus locations around Manhattan), and has an enrollment of nearly 51,000 students making it the largest private, non-profit university in the United States. It is also one of the country's premier institutions, producing 31 Nobel Prize winners, 16 Pulitzer Prize recipients, and 19 Academy Award winners. Although their mascot is a bobcat, their logo is a torch (see above) which is symbolic of the Statue of Liberty.
Taken on NYU's campus. At that time, I had no idea I'd end up living so close to where this was taken.
I haven't seen this photo in over 20 years either.
We must have split the photos as I had this one.
Mikas and Nyus look great in a group! The boys are now dressed in 'Ken' (of Barbie fame) clothes from ebay - perfect!