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Dalton Hackathon Builds App-etites

While the balance of the Dalton community enjoyed a late November weekend at home, 125 hackers from various area high schools descended on the 89th Street campus to participate in Dalton's first-ever hackathon, aptly named "TigerHacks 2015." 15 mentors from eBay, OkCupid, hackNY and Square helped judge the student apps according to their originality of concept, implementation, and overall design. Three of those mentors were none other than alums Adam Szatrowski '08, Brad Seiler '06, and Andrew Emil '08, who attended at the invitation of Dalton's Engineering Department Chair Gordie Campbell.
Dalton's five organizers, Emily Cohen '16, Karina Shah '16, Annabel Strauss '16, Ella Tessier-Lavigne '16, and Alexis B. Harris '16, provided the following press release - "TigerHacks aims to bring together young coders from New York City independent and specialized schools, with varying levels of experience, to spend a day together coding and competing. The aim of the event was to design and build web or mobile apps." Mr. Campbell shared, "This was the first HS hackathon I've ever seen." Following suit, Stuyvesant High School plans to hold another event in December and Trinity plans to host in January.
 
Dalton students Eeshan Tripathii '19, Alexander Studer '19, Joshua  Fielding '19, and William Barkoff '20 won the competition with their app named "Dalton Tab." Eeshan described the app as a "...home page for all Dalton students...created to have a sleek, simple, elegant, yet simple user interface." The work in progress currently includes a students' personal planner,  schedule, and direct links to Courses classes. "...With a simple click of a button - by just opening a new tab - everything mentioned above will appear thereby simplifying a student's work." 
 
Readers can view one finished web app called Newsin.Pictures. The app pulls pictures from the front page of various news sources. Proposed for the 89th Street lobby screen, while waiting for the elevator or passing by, viewers can see if there is a "hot" story going on. If there are similar photos, the app amplifies the point that something big is happening in the world. The images update every two hours. It's like passing by a newsstand and glancing at the newspaper pictures, only far more current.
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