Pick your APIs and development platforms and come ready for an awesome day at the Gannett / USA TODAY Headquarters building in Mclean, Virginia, just outside DC. Developers will be competing for up to $10,000 in cash and prizes including airfare to Las Vegas for the MoDev / CEA Hackathon at CES 2013. All skill levels and mobile disciplines are welcome including developers, designers, marketers and project managers. We’ll help you get on a team if you’re flying solo and looking for a squad.
The hackathon includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. All this for FREE!
Rules:
– To be eligible for prizes, hacks must be built on site
– All platforms welcome, including HTML5
– Have fun!
Schedule:
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8:30AM – Check-in and continental breakfast
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9:00AM – Rules, sponsor demos & team building
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10:00AM – Start coding
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Noon – lunch served
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4:00PM – happy hour & snacks
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6:00PM – Code stop
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6:15PM – Demo’s start
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7:30PM – Awards
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7:30PM – 9:30PM Holiday party
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9:30PM – Adjourn
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Sponsors & Prizes w/ APIs
Prize: $250 for best app using the USA TODAY APIs and $150 for the runner up
Eligibility: Use of any published USA TODAY APIs
Resources: Dev portal – http://developer.usatoday.com
With the login info below developers can get all the documentation needed on the
keys below.
Login: modev2013
Pass: modev2013
Articles; briefs:
http://api.usatoday.com/open/articles/topnews?api_key=modev2013
Articles; full text:
http://api.usatoday.com/articles/nitfx/topnews?api_key=modev2013
Best-Selling Books:
http://api.usatoday.com/bestsellers/books?api_key=modev2013
Breaking News: http://api.usatoday.com/open/breaking?api_key=modev2013
Census: http://api.usatoday.com/census?api_key=modev2013
Photos: http://api.usatoday.com/photos/galleries/165?api_key=modev2013
Reviews; books:
http://api.usatoday.com/open/reviews/books?api_key=modev2013
Reviews; movies:
http://api.usatoday.com/open/reviews/movies?api_key=modev2013
Reviews; music:
http://api.usatoday.com/open/reviews/music?api_key=modev2013
Snapshots: http://api.usatoday.com/open/snapshots?api_key=modev2013
Prize: Three ASUS Windows 8 Tablets with the dock! $729 value each – 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Windows apps
Eligibility: Must be a Windows 8 app
Resources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229512.aspx
Prize: Four awesome Patagonia backpacks with a $25 AMEX card in them and some sweet Starbucks gift cards
Eligibility: Use of the Millennial Media mobile ad platform
Resources: http://mmedia.com/resources/sdk-api/
Prize: Creative suite 6.0 to the best designed
Eligibility: Use of any Adobe products in the creation of your app
Resources: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices.html
Prize: A Sphero to the best app using SendGrid
Eligibility: Must use the SendGrid APIs
Resources: http://sendgrid.com/developers.html
Prize: Nexus 7 Tablet to the winning team of the hackathon
Eligibility: Must use at least one of the sponsored APIs or SDKs
Resources: http://dev.mashery.com/
Prize: $350 Amazon gift cards to the best Tout implementation
Eligibility: Use of Tout in the app
Resources: http://developer.tout.com/
Prizes: $500 best app using Appcelerator, $250 2nd place, $150 3rd
Eligibility: Apps built using any of the Appcelerator development tools
Resources: http://www.appcelerator.com/developers
Prize: $250 each for the two best apps that use the SmartRecorder API
Eligibility: Use of Smart Recorder within an app
Resources: Original app for reference: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-recorder-lite/id349259683?mt=8#
Sponsors & Prizes without APIs
SDK: http://www.rmdvoice.com/Roe_Mobile_Development/iOS_Smart_Recorder_SDK.html
Prize: $250 BestBuy Giftcard to the best overall app
Eligibility: Best overall app as determined by the panel of judges
Prize: $250 each for the top two finishers
Eligibility: Top two overall apps as determined by the panel of judges
Prizes: Books
Eligibility: Awarded to teams that show a lot of heart
Prize: Airfare for the winning team to Las Vegas for The 2013 International CES 2013 January 8-11 and participation in the CEA / MoDev hackathon Jan 9th
Eligibility: Best overall app
Prize: TBD
Eligibility: TBD