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<li><a href="#hall-of-fame">Hall of Fame</a></li>
<li><a href="#materials">Materials</a></li>
<li><a href="#dataset">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="#programme">Schedule</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">FAQ</a></li>
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The competition is open to all graduate students. Prizes will be given to the winners, generously sponsored by [AmherstWorks](https://amherstworks.io/) and Microsoft Student Partner.


## <a name="Hall of Fame"></a> Hall of Fame <i class="fa fa-graduation-cap fa-5x"></i>

All of the projects that were presented at Hack2O were interesting enough to
give our judges a hard time. The following teams stood
out:

* Overall Winner — Andrew Wang (MIT Rejects)
* Best Use of Azure ML — Tangxin Jin, Shujian Liu, Huan Chen (Pizza-Pita)
* First Time Hackers — Ajay Kumar (AK)
* Best Woman Hacker — Azka Javaid (Lil ‘Herst), from Amherst College.

## <a name="materials"></a> Materials:
* Slides from all the presentations: <a href="https://github.com/gridclub/Hack2O-projects"><i class="fa fa-github fa-2x"></i></a>
* Photos (more to be added): <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/MhKFTfmqFUdRdxGu5"><i class="fa fa-google fa-2x" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>

## <a name="placetime"></a> When and where

Start: **Friday, Feb. 24; 5:30 PM**
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## <a name="signup"></a> Signup
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Registration is now closed.
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaGPM2AMbRzUOEENchr2A5HuQh3aUSdJDXX-qC4Ln3t0QCFQ/viewform" class="button"> <mark>~Register here~</mark> </a>
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### Submission
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* Microsoft Student Partner sponsored prizes:
- Best use of [Azure Machine Learning](azure.com/ml)
- Best Up & Coming Hackers (first timers)

- Secret prize: Best woman hacker.

### Judges

***Dr. Krista Gile***, Associate Professor of Statistics, UMass Amherst.

**Note:** Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr. Krista Gile wasn't able to join us
on Sunday. Professor Michael Lavine took her place as a judge.

***Hassaan Khan***, PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering and Water Resouces Engineering, UMass Amherst.

***Roy Adams***, PhD Candidate, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst.

***Nabanita De***, MSc. Student, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst. Represented the Microsoft Student Partner Group.


## <a name="programme"></a> Schedule
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## <a name="ack"></a>Acknowledgements

GRiD acknowledges the support of the following organizations, on-and-off campus,
without which Hack2O wouldn't have taken off.

![ACK](http://gridclub.io/Hack2O/assets/hack2O_sponsor.svg)

Additionally, we would like to thank:

* Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering [Joe Goodwill](https://www.francis.edu/Joseph-Goodwill/) of Saint Francis
University, for providing his expertise with water data and providing
us with a clean dataset.
* [AmherstWorks](www.amherstworks.io), for supporting the hackathon,
giving prizes to the best team.


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