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Check out this awesome blog post by our incredible judge, Chris Velazco: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/07/students-tackle-road-trips-online-distraction-and-more-at-hackprinceton/

Amazing job at demos, everyone!

We had an amazing turnout at HackPrinceton Final Demos: 34 teams presented, including 9 hardware teams!

Software Track:
1st – Tamagetitdone: Michael Toth, Greyson Parrelli, Ben Chen
        (all from Lehigh University)
2nd – UB Hackers: Joe Peacock, Nate Burgers, Pat Jameson
        (all from University at Buffalo, SUNY)
3rd – Wingman: Connor Stonesifer, Ethan Berl, Austin Walker
        (all from Princeton University)

Hardware Track:
1st – Robot Kinection (formerly “Drawing Robot”): Neil, Joseph, Ankush, Pranav
        (all from Princeton University)
2nd – Risk of Electrocution: Stephen Beard, David Dennis, Nick Johnson, Himanshu Shah, Matt Zoufaly
        (all from Princeton University)
3rd – Lightning Field (LightningShield): Michael Iberkleid and Pranav Gokhale
        (all from Princeton)

Additional Prizes:
Best Design – Feed Me Maybe: Ian Sibner, Julian Offermann, Benedikt Lotter
        (all from UPenn)
Coolest Hack – IdeaOverflow (CJ): Jacob Cole (MIT), Emad Williams (MIT), Bruno Faviero (MIT), Adam Chu (Harvard), Raveen Beemsingh (Lehigh University), CJ (Northeastern)
Crowd Favorite – Tamagetitdone [see software #1]
Biggest Fail – Mario Box: Bonnie Eisenman, Kanika, Vincent, Jan
        (all from Princeton)
Open Source Prize – HubLinks: Nicholas Crowell, Krithin Sitaram
        (all from Princeton)

API Prizes:
Best Use of MongoDB – Musicator: Jon Ma, Cyril, Sushi, Heinrich
        (all from Princeton)
Best Use of SendGrid – WingMan [see software #3]
Best Use of OpenTok – Sticky Celeb Head: Indraneel Purohit (Rutgers), Kyle Suarez (Rutgers), Eugene (Princeton), Elliot (Bard University)

More information about winning projects and pictures upcoming!

It’s time to start building your projects!

Here’s a summary of our presentation:

• Sponsors
• Schedule
• Mentors Arrive @ 8pm
• Prizes

Contact the API presenters here:

• Applied Predictive Technologies: Rishab (rmalhotra@predictiveTechnologies.com) & Mat Hartjie (mhartje@predictiveTechnologies.com)
• SendGrid: Swift (@SwiftAlphaOne) & Kunal (@kunal732)
• TokBox: Ankur (ankur@tokbox.com)
• Foursquare: Sajid (@smehmood)

Come to our awesome opening kickoff in Friend 101 starting @ 5:30 pm today. Pitch your idea in front of fellow hackers. Get inspired by other people’s ideas. START BUILDING!

You can come confirm your registration at our check-in table right outside Friend 101 starting at 5 pm today. Get pumped!

Contact hackathons@princetoneclub.com or contact one of the organizers if you have questions or get lost!

HackPrinceton has received an overwhelming number of registrants! Registration closes at midnight tonight (11:59 am on 3/26), so don’t miss your chance to attend.

Come to Princeton’s spring 24-hour hackathon!

We have a lineup of great mentors and sponsors, prizes for a variety of interests and skill levels, and hardware and software tracks, with funding available for hardware hackers.

The event will be from: Friday, March 29th to Saturday March 30th.
Mark it on your calendars and sign up here!