[oats-sig] Code-A-Thon Underway!

Great stuff Chris - very impressive and I can't wait to see the results - I
assume they will get posted on the project page? Particularly interested in
the word prediction and head/eye tracking one.  

Do we ever have code-a-thon's in the UK (e.g. uni's)? Or is it a US thing?! 

Cheers.

Simon

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[mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher Leung
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:37 AM
To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
Subject: [oats-sig] Code-A-Thon Underway!

Hi everyone,

Thank you for answering all my questions in the past weeks.  They have all
contributed to an event we've been busily organizing - SS12: Code for a
Cause.

The Code-A-Thon has begun and is going extremely well.

You may browse all of our pictures at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ss12cfc

And we should have some website updates later tonight (Pacific Standard
Time) at: http://ss12.info

We selected six projects for our Code-A-Thon:

1) Mobile Currency Reader (cell phone application that returns the value of
a bill)
2) Word Predictor (as discussed on this list)
3) AxsJax for Wikipedia, Myspace, and possibly other sites (see
http://code.google.com/p/google-axsjax/)
4) Dojo Toolkit project (http://dojotoolkit.org/)
5 & 6) Two binary input (switch) games

We have had over thirty undergraduate and graduate students coding this
weekend, along with over a dozen working professionals from industry
mentoring the students over the weekend and chipping in help.

The students seem to be having a great time and are working hard. 
Tomorrow, we have another 12 hour day, ending with a showcase where all of
the student teams show off their, and are awarded for all of their hard work
with donated prizes.

We hope you share our excitement, and you are all here in spirit!

All the best,
Christopher Leung
Founder, Chair - Project:Possibility

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