Congratulations to Winners of the First 24-hr High School Hackathon in Union County– HackUC II

High School students from all over the area participated in the first 24-Hour Hackathon hosted at the Union County Vocational-Technical School (UCVTS) in Scotch Plains on June22-23. Students of all skill level learned or developed their programming coding skills and created a team project within a 24-hour limit.

Co-Directors Stephen Cropper and Jason Wong, and the rest of the HackUC II Team (http://hackuc.com/team.html) would like to thank the following organizations and companies for allowing the event to be a great success. HackUC II would not be possible without the support of the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders and Union County Vocational-Technical School district, and the Parent Organizations of Magnet High School and Academy for Information Technology, as well as the following sponsors:

Title Sponsor: ARK (https://ark.io/)

Gold Sponsors: Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/), Robotics Team 1257 Robotics Team (http://team1257.org/), and GEP (https://www.gep.com/)

Bronze Sponsors: Giphy (https://giphy.com/), RubensteinTech (https://www.rubensteintech.com/), Glencom (http://www.glen.com/), Stratis (https://stratisplatform.com/), Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/), DataOnline (http://www.dataonline.com/), MakeSchool (https://www.makeschool.com/), ConnectOneBank (https://www.connectonebank.com/)

Contributors: MIT Launch, StickerGiant, DotTech, Linode, Princeton Review, Two River Community Bank, ReThinkIt, Google Code-in

Food Sponsors: Applebee's of Clark, Olive Garden of Springfield, Club-Mate USA, Chick-fil-A of Union, LadyM, Rudy's Pizza

We also want to thank the many volunteers and mentors who contributed towards the success of HackUC II.

Eight judges, who had respectable knowledge in technology-related fields, determined the winners. HackUC II was honored to have Mr. Bruce H. Bergen, Chairman of the Freeholder board of Union County, make a closing ceremony speech, and was followed by the presentation of prizes. Congratulations to the following winners:

First Place:

Matthew Wang (New Providence)

Nicholas Mohan (New Providence)

Eric Schneider (New Providence)

Steven Shan (New Providence)

Second Place:

William Li (Edison)

Arjun Srivastav (Edison)

Daniel Zhou (Edison)

Third Place:

Zhizhuo Zhou (Berkeley Heights)

Kevin Zhang (Berkeley Heights)

Ivan Galakhov (NYC)

Yash Parikh (Hillsborough Twp)

Honorable Mention:

Elijah-Jose Clarke (NYC)

Thomas Hannan (Mountainside)

Julia Lachenauer (Union County)

Charolette Lin (New Providence)

Janny Gao (Berkeley Heights)

Eric Chang (Springfield)

Ryan Chang (Springfield)

Danny Chan (Springfield)

Jayden Daniel (Iselin)

ARK Cryptocurrency:

Thomas Yee (Summit)

Franklin Sun (Springfield)

DotTech Domains:

Eshita Kar (Scotch Plains)

Veronica Vergara (Scotch Plains)

Vasant Bhardwaj (Berkeley Heights)

David Falana (Plainfield)

Best Startup Hack:

Jake Downie (Monmouth County)

Bryce Wyzykowski (Rumson)

Christy Zheng (Union County)

Pooja Amin (Union County)

Best Beginner Hack:

Shreya Pugalia (Franklin Park)

Zean Go (Union)

Luz Alfaro (Elizabeth)

Estephanny Elmiron (Roselle)

Shivangi Patel (Roselle Park)