OHIO 2014

To foster a tech culture amongst students at Ohio State and cultivate technical talent in Columbus and the Ohio region, “OHI/O” — Ohio State’s Second Annual Hackathon and programming contest was held Friday October 3rd 2014 through Sunday October 5th 2014. Over 200 undergraduate and graduate student programmers built working software and demonstrate it to a live audience of students, faculty, and representatives from tech companies. Students competed for over $5000 in prizes and will be judged on categories including technical difficulty, creativity, usefulness, and presentation.

Transcript

1. OHI/O 2014
   OHIO STATE’S SECOND ANNUAL HACKATHON
   #hackohio
   

   View Slide

2. Hi, I’m Arnab Nandi
   •  Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
   •  Interactive Data Systems Group
   •  Big Data Analytics
   •  Database Systems
   •  Next-gen Query Interfaces
   •  Research papers, videos, and more at
   http://interact.osu.edu
   

   View Slide

3. Hi, I’m Meris Mandernach
   •  Associate Professor, University Libraries
   •  Research Commons
   •  Services and collaborative space
   for the research lifecycle
   •  http://library.osu.edu/researchcommons
   •  Workshops: now through Spring 2015
   •  Space coming soon: January 2016
   

   View Slide

4. What is a Hackathon?
   Figure it out / learn
   along the way!
   idea
   working software
   (or hardware)
   short span of time
   Needs to work, but
   doesn’t need to be
   perfect!
   Make new friends
   (possibly co-founders!)
   (peer learning)
   

   View Slide

5. History of the OSU Hackathon
   •  Let’s make it
   a thing
   •  2x bigger!
   •  Series of student
   sponsored ramp-
   up events
   2012 2014
   2013
   •  Class Hackathon
   •  Advanced
   Databases
   Course
   •  Finish Course
   Projects
   •  1st University-wide
   Hackathon
   •  Focus: writing
   working code:
   demo or don’t
   •  103 participants!
   

   View Slide

6. Fostering a Tech Culture
   •  Long-term Investment in our future
   •  Students
   •  Ecosystem
   •  Industry
   •  Research
   •  Education
   

   View Slide

7. Next-gen Teaching / Learning
   •  “I loved the fact that this event gave me time to learn how to
   implement real world applications of Computer Science”
   •  "The ability to sit down for an extended period of time and just
   work on a project allowed me to accomplish more in 24 hours
   than I have since the start of the school year and it made me
   feel like I actually did something useful for once."
   •  "Ability to create something useful and learn from others."
   •  "It allowed me to participate and gain experience in a group
   programming setting”
   

   View Slide

8. Our Amazing Planning Team
   •  Students
   •  Chris Wallace, CSE, BS 2015
   •  Matt Faluotico, CSE, BS 2016
   •  George Kvaratskhelia, CSE, BS 2015
   •  Lizzy Burl, CSE, BS 2015
   •  Faculty / Staff
   •  Daniel Dotson
   •  Charlene Brenner
   •  Krysta Kirsch
   •  Matt Schutte
   

   View Slide

9. Our Judges, Mentors, Volunteers…
   …and everyone who supported us and we’re probably forgetting
   •  Alex Bandar
   •  Barry Brinkley
   •  Brad Arner
   •  Bruce Weide
   •  Bryce Glass
   •  Chip Ashby
   •  Chris Anderson
   •  Chris Heckler
   •  Chris Stewart
   •  Dan Rockwell
   •  Eric Fosler-Lussier
   •  Ethan Dicks
   •  Helen Patton
   •  Igor Ferst
   •  Jessica Logan
   •  Jill Pentimonti
   •  Jim Muir
   •  Kathryn Reeves
   •  Kyle Decot
   •  Luke Gaddie
   •  Marc Ainger
   •  Mark Beadles
   •  Matt Groves
   •  Mez Gebre
   •  Michael Butsko
   •  Mike Hofherr
   •  Neelam
   Soundarajan
   •  Paolo Sivilotti
   •  Paul Cook
   •  Roger Crawfis
   •  Roman Holowinsky
   •  Rosi Wyan
   •  Steve Fischer
   •  Libraries Facilities
   •  Student Volunteers
   

   View Slide

10. We’d like to thank
    •  Persistent Systems
    •  OSU College of Engineering
    •  Tata Consultancy Services
    •  OCIO/ODEE
    •  Google
    •  University Student Government
    •  GitHub
    •  CoverMyMeds
    •  Columbus Idea Foundry
    •  OSU Wexner Medical Center
    •  STEAM Factory
    •  Engineering Career Services
    •  Open Source Club
    •  ACM–W
    •  Computer Science &
    Engineering
    •  University Libraries
    

    View Slide

11. Event Recap #hackohio
    8pm
    Friday
    9am
    Sunday
    8am
    Sunday
    36 hours of fun, food,
    and creating something amazing
    
    @austinkochs #ProjectMaize
    •  59 teams, 200+ participants
    •  65 gallons of coffee, 45 lbs of apples
    Hacking Begins Hacking Ends Judging
    now
    

    View Slide

12. Some moments
    by Thomas Carlin, BS CSE and David Ross, BS, ECE
    

    View Slide

13. What’s Next?
    •  Preview: Hack the Library
    •  Readership Analytics Dashboard as Art Installation
    •  At Thompson Library till December
    •  [video]
    •  Plans and Schedule: Stay tuned!
    http://go.osu.edu/hackathon
    •  2015 Plans: Email us at hackathon@osu.edu
    •  event plans
    •  Sponsors
    •  Mentors
    

    View Slide

14. And now, for the demos…
    Remember: these projects were built in 36 hours
    

    View Slide