Hackathon 2022
Our Fall Hackathon kicked off Twin Cities Startup Week 2022 with high energy, collaborative efforts to solve problems using tech with a group of inspiring women, non-binary, and trans people! 3 teams rose to the top with their final solutions:.
1st Place: FundFare - App integration to provide free transit rides to citizens in need
Team: Aaliyah Dick, Kendra Plant, Pandora Vang, Denise Lor
FundFare is an app that partners with metropolitan citizens to pay their rides forward and gives free rides to those in need. FundFare partners with cities to integrate the “FundFare” feature in their pre-existing transit apps. Citizens can round up their totals and/or give rides to those in need.
2nd Place: Untracktravel
Secure wayfinding app
3rd Place: Stop Hate Crime
App to help victims of hate crimes and provides educational resources
Congratulations to our winning teams who each won cash prizes! Many of our participants would say the real prize wasn’t the money, but was being part of the event itself. We heard from multiple people who said they are typically the only woman in their bootcamp program or Computer Science class. Others are software engineers or working in tech where they often feel outnumbered. That wasn’t the case at our Hackathon.
At Hack the Gap, we elevate women, non-binary, and trans people in technology by creating spaces to get together, hack and connect, providing tech training and pathways into tech, and connecting candidates with employers.
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Thank you to our sponsors for making this Hackathon possible: Gap Inc., SPS Commerce, Amazon, Target.
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