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Follow on Google News | rapidBizApps’s Hackathon 4SmarterSchools: Smart Coders+Biryani+Drinks+36 hours = Brilliant IdeasBy: rapidBizApps Pvt. Ltd Vanaja Alle was declared the winner for her App that let teachers to interact and collaborate with students in their classes on the progress of assigned work. The judges Mr. Hari Krishnan, CEO of CloudGust, Mr. Rohit Bhist, COO of CloudGust, and Mr. Subba Raju Pericherla, Founder and Director of Cross Borders made their decision based on business viability, Design Quality, Originality and Completed Functionality within the app/ solution. “I’m really impressed with the extent to which these hackers have completed their ideas. Most App projects take about 6-8 weeks. These folks took less than 36 hours to build some amazing products. In the end, I was actually surprised by the output generated in one and a half days – the amount of work done was simply amazing” said Rohit. “I guess that’s what you get when you get a room full of really smart, highly motivated people into a room and just let them create the next big thing” said Chandra Gillellamudi, one of the developers at rapidBizApps. Hackers built native apps using a variety of infrastructures that help accelerate app development – atleast that’s what most of the smart ones do. “Kumar Kalluri and I used a stack with Android SDK and Parse.com to build ThirdEye, and app that we thought could be used by blind people to read books. It is hard for the blind to speed read Braille books or Audio CDs – so we designed an app that is easy for the blind to read, re-read, skip chapters, paragraphs, sentences by simply tapping different sections of a screen. There is a small 2 minute training period involved – but after that, it is pretty straightforward” rapidBizApps has committed to testing this solution with a blind students in Hyderabad. The team said they were inspired by an idea proposed by Krishna Kunam, CTO of rapidBizApps. “I’ve seen very smart blind people attempt to get Ph.D’s. I thought we could build a solution to assist them. Looks like Gani and Kumar latched onto the idea” “I’ve been to a lot of hackathons in Bangalore. I’m happy that we are now starting to host hackathon’s in Hyderabad too. It promotes innovation, and a startup culture. This hackathon was slightly different in that it had a theme” said Prakash Kumar. Prakash and Karthik worked on an app that integrates with ePub services to help students learn collaboratively. “We at rapidBizApps strongly believe in Innovation. So, Hackathons and Innovation Tournaments are part of rapidBizApp’ Organizing such large scale events takes quite a bit of advanced planning. “Hats off to Pavan Bhushan Maganti and Manusha Yandra and all volunteers – Satish Kocharlakota, Abhilash Komara, Chandra, and others for spearheading the planning and running the hackathon smoothly. I think they did a fantastic job” said Parmeshwar Bayappu, Director at rapidBizApps. “Retaining very sharp and proactive people is a challenge in the software industry. At rapidBizApps, I think Satish and Krishna do an excellent job of engaging and motivating employees, and giving them opportunities to excel both technically and in doing extra-curricular activities. Being able to organize large scale product launches is important to what I want to do 5 years from now. At rapidBizApps, I have ample opportunities to hone these skills – organizing the logistics all the way from marketing and inviting judges to setting up the systems and arranging food for was an important milestone in my career growth. It is one of the reasons I like working here at rapidBizApps” rapidBizApps organizes regular hackathons at colleges, training institutes, and at rapidBizApps’ The next hackathon will be held on Sept 14th and 15th, again at rapidBizApps’ About rapidBizApps: rapidBizApps prides itself in building intuitive, elegant and reliable Apps out of their offices in the San Jose, California, USA and Madhapur (Near Image Gardens Function Hall), Hyderabad, India. Come join us for our ‘Fun@5 on Fridays’ to experience our can-do culture. BTW, we are also looking for exceptional iOS and Android programmers – if you think you fit the bill, shoot us your resume to jobs@rapidBizApps.com. Learn more about all the bleeding edge technologies and solutions we are working on at http://www.rapidBizApps.com End
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