Organized by CMU-SV for attendees (technical & non-technical) to learn more about HTML5 single-page web apps, build HTML5 single-page apps, get fed, and compete for great prizes.
Submissions should be single-paged web applications
To help you build a winning app we will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools so that you can easily deploy your own single page app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.
Here are some suggested frameworks you may want to use for building your app:
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Yahoo's YUI API: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/
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Meteor API: http://www.meteor.com/
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Node.js: http://nodejs.org/
Location
Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley Campus.
23 S. Akron Road, Mt View, CA [ map , detailed directions ]
Schedule
(All times are in Pacific time)
Friday, Apr 12
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7pm: Registration begins
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8pm: Introduction on what this hackathon is about, the theme (client side apps where all the app logic is written in JavaScript), discussion of rules and prizes.
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8:15pm: Presentation from Yahoo and Meteor.
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9:15pm: Start team building, idea pitching.
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10pm: Doors close. Participants go home and can code at home.
Saturday, Apr 13
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8am: doors open, hacking begins
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4pm: Submissions due
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4pm - 7pm: Demos, judging
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7pm: Awards
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10pm: Doors close.
Prizes
$1,400 in prizes
First place
This prize goes to the best app fulfilling all the required judging criteria.
Second place
Third place
Most popular app
This prize is kept as a surprise and will go to the most popular app based on the attendees' votes.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Eligibility
- Free and open to Everyone!
- You just have to: Register
- No need to have an idea.
- No need to be a technical person who knows how to code using HTML5!
- Whoever you are, you are welcomed to share the fun!
Requirements
Submissions should be single-paged web applications
How to enter
Register on Eventbrite
Judges

Alex Norbert
Minted

Simon Tunbridge
Yahoo

Yulong Zhang
Berkeley
Judging Criteria
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- Quality of the idea
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- Implementation and execution of the idea
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- Impact and value of the idea