2012-2013 Winners Announced
Thanks to everyone who came and participated in today’s event. Your tough questions and votes were very much appreciated. Thanks to everyone who watched us online. Thank you to all of our judges who had the difficult task of evaluating all of the finalists.
Congratulations to all the finalists for making it this far in the competition. Finally, congratulations to our winners!
Winners
- 1st Prize: UBCme
Winner of $5,000 - 2nd Prize: Degree Mapper
Winner of $3,000 - Best Startup: UBCme
Offered by Wavefront AC
Winner of a Nokia Lumia 820, access to Wavefront’s Lab Handset Library of over 1,000 mobile devices and their Perfecto Mobile Testing Cloud - People’s Choice: Degree Mapper
As chosen through audience clicker responses
Winner of $25 gift card to Tim Horton’s
Acknowledgements
Once again, we’d like to thank our hosts, UBC IT and Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) and sponsors, Wavefront AC and Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology for helping organize the 1st Digital *U competition.
We’d like everyone to stay tuned for more news about V.2.0 of the competition coming soon. This first round is focused on mobile apps but in the words of one of our judges, David Vogt:
There are so many dimensions of the future UBC in a digital sense… How we can make UBC the smartest campus in the world; leveraging all the facilities, the multicultural, global community we have here.
Let us know in the comments your response to the question, “what theme should Digital *U tackle next”?
Video Archive
Photos
Attribution
Trophy icon by Pedro Ramalho from the Noun Project.
Digital *U Final Judging
What:
Join us on Monday, March 11 at the Dodson Room in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre for the final judging to determine the winner of the inaugural Digital *U Mobile App Contest!
The program starts at 11AM for a “trade show” style event, come and meet the five finalists and learn more about their submissions. At noon, we hear opening remarks from one of the judges and hear each team’s final pitches. Judges will be deliberate at 1:30PM and the winners will be announced!
First place will receive $5,000 while second-place will receive $3,000.
Everyone is invited to come, feel free to bring your own lunch and support your favorites!
When:
Monday, March 11, 2013
11:00AM – Noon | Meet and Greet Finalists
Noon – 1:30PM | Final Team Pitches
1:30PM – 2:00PM | Winners Announced
Where:
Dodson Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Finalists
Who are the five finalists? Watch their video pitches below and learn more in their submissions pages.
UBCme
Organizing and simplifying orientation for new students
Degree Mapper
Clear way for students to chart their degree path
StickIt
Location-based social notes apps
Attribution
Trophy icon by the Noun Project.
Digital *U Finalists
Since October, 2012 we have received over 40 submissions from different groups across the UBC community. Applications tackled a range of ideas from a course scheduling app, to an app to help you find study space, to a digital coach-trainer for athletes.
Our panel of judges deliberated all the submissions and choose the five finalists who will go on to the final round of judging on an event on March 11.
Below are the five finalists in no particular order:
UBCme
Organizing and simplifying orientation for new students
Degree Mapper
Clear way for students to chart their degree path
StickIt
Location-based social notes apps
Join us on March 11
Everyone is invited to come the final round of judging in a “Dragon’s Den” style event on March 11 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The event will also be broadcasted live via a Google Hangout.
More details will be announced soon.
In the meantime, explore and rate the proposals from the finalists as well as the submissions who did not make it. Feel free to leave some feedback to help the groups refine and improve on their ideas.
Attribution
The Smartphone icon was designed by James Fenton, from the Noun Project.