A team of four Quinnipiac University students and one UConn student placed first at the Connecticut Technology Council’s hackathon competition.
Quinnipiac students Tyler Dresselhouse of East Greenwich, R.I.; Matt Fishman, of Manalapan, N.J.; Brandon Loehle of Farmington; and Alexander Thimineur of Orange joined UConn’s Anthony Dell’Agli to win the competition and earn $5,000 for first prize.
The competition was held Dec. 3 at the Yale School of Management in New Haven. The CTC hosted the top 50 collegiate computer programming students from local colleges and universities for a team competition.
Each team was required to use a public Application Programming Interface (API) to make a piece of useful software. The winning group made a mobile app for Android and IOS that allowed users to search movies and receive easy-to-read review scales.
The hackathon was part of CTC’s ongoing Connecticut Skills Challenge Program, made possible through funding provided by CTNext. This was the second hackathon for the CT Skills Challenge in the past eight months, attracting talented programmers from across the state.
The hackathon included teams from 15 colleges and universities throughout Connecticut. The CTC held qualifying competitions on several campuses, including Quinnipiac’s, and the top 50 students were invited to the hackathon.
