Congratulations to YD (SeptaNow.org) on winning the Penn Student Choice Award (Sponsored by First Round Capital)

With over 650 votes submitted, receiving nearly 200 means it's time to announce SeptaNow (YD) as the Penn Student Choice from PennApps 2010.  Congrats, guys!  You've got a $1,000 check from First Round Capital waiting for you.

Have some charts (to guard against voter fraud, we have votes from the UPenn network vs votes overall. The numbers don't change.):

Don't forget to check out the SEPTANow Facebook Page, which probably helped (they have more Likes than we do - what's up with that? Help us fix that.

PennApps over!

After 48 hours of hacking and very little sleep, we have results!

Congratulations to our overall winners:

And our sponsored prizes:

  • Best Data-Oriented App, sponsored by WIMI: oPennHouse ($1000)
  • Most User-Friendly App, sponsored by Monetate: Honey Oats (iPad)
  • Best Use of Venmo API, sponsored by Venmo: P eq NNP ($500)
  • Penn Choice Award, sponsored by First Round Capital: to be determined (by you!) ($1000)

Thanks to our judges and participants! More details on the awesome projects and presentations coming soon...

Demos & Presentations Tomorrow

With < 10 hours left, here's what tomorrow's going to look like:

Noon: code freeze.  Judges walk around the Weiss Tech House and talk to the teams/take a look at the products.

1 PM: Lunch is served.  Presentations begin in Wu & Chen Auditorium, on 34th and Walnut.  2 minute demo presentations. Judges ask questions.

2:30 PM: Judges announce winners.  Awards are given out.

3 PM: Penn Student Choice voting begins.

It's been quite a weekend.  See you Sunday - come see what we've built.

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Friday's Tech Talk Schedule

Get ready for some really cool and informative talks from Yahoo, Venmo, Facebook, and Twitter! You'll learn how to use their APIs to build something awesome. New to web development? No problem - we're also giving talks about general HTML, PHP, and everything you need to know to create a web or mobile application. Stop by Greenberg Lounge (Room 114 Skirkanich Hall) this Friday, here's the schedule:

12:30 PM Introduction to all the APIs
1 PM Venmo
2 PM Twitter API
3 PM Front-end crash course (CSS, HTML, Javascript)
4 PM PHP/back-end crash course (Given by Yahoo!)
5 PM YQL
6 PM Django crash course
7 PM
Facebook API