To start the day !
On October 24th 2015 college students from all over NY were able to come together for a greater good. For 12 hours they put their creative, innovative and collaborative skills together in order to come up with solutions to the following issue:
The day began at 8:30am with check in and breakfast. This was followed by an introduction to the days challenges and team making.
Lunch time! (Thanks Dos Toros)
Housing Workshop (Thanks Nestie!)
Nestie.co stopped by to give the crowd a workshop on apartment hunting especially while being a college student.
Presentation Workshop (Thanks Linute)
Financial workshop & Dinner time! (Thanks NextGenVest)
Kelly Peeler from NextGenVest stopped by to give the students a quick workshop on how to be a smart when it comes to money. She even shared some awesome insight on the relationship between college loans/debt and college drop out rates! NextGenVest also provided us with some Burritos from Chipotle for dinner.
Presentations & Judges
Chike Ukaegbu
is an Educator, Entrepreneur, Humanitarian and Engineer who is passionate about empowerment of underrepresented communities through entrepreneurship, education and tech. He is an ex-fellow of the prestigious Colin Powell Leadership Fellowship on leadership and public policy, was named a 2014 NYC Rising Star by Pave for his contributions to youth development and recently, a 2015 Ashoka Emerging Innovator Finalist. He gave his first TEDx talk on entrepreneurship in Hawaii last year and continues to advocate for economic empowerment of minorities through various outlets. Chike co-founded Re:LIFE Inc, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to empower youth through entrepreneurship and education, and recently founded Startup52, an innovation suite focused on grooming and accelerating founders and startups from untapped communities in tech and startup entrepreneurship. He studied Biomedical engineering at The City College of New York where he currently teaches Math and entrepreneurship, among other endeavors.
Mark Nyon
is a technologist and entrepreneur who has been developing Web applications since 1996 when he graduated from Tufts University. He has worked at consulting agencies, enterprise companies, startups and companies of all sizes. After a six year stint at MTV Networks, he worked full-time for Grand Kru Technologies in 2006. Mark has developed and architected web sites and applications, managed teams and improved software development processes for small web incubators to large enterprise companies. He has worked in many industries including fashion, financial services, healthcare and media. He currently primarily works in Ruby on Rails and Node and is learning about the ways of the Front End Developer. He is about to start working at Miner in New York City.
Julissa Baez
is a business consultant with the NYC Department of Small Business services where she works with entrepreneurs to develop training plans for their employees. She's passionate about helping young people pursue their passions, building cool projects and cooking spicy meals :)
Chaya Cooper
is a two time fashion tech entrepreneur, long-time strategy & product development consultant, and inadvertent full stack developer. She pioneered the concept of mass-customizing clothing by body type 16 years ago, and has been at the forefront of personalizing products and user experiences ever since. Like most entrepreneurs, Chaya is nothing if not persistent - when she kept running into the Catch-22 of being unable to hire a tech team to build Click2Fit’s software without funding, she taught herself to code and started building it herself. Fast forward a few years later and Click2Fit’s about to start beta testing its software, and Chaya became a full stack developer along the way. About Click2Fit (www.click2fit.com) Click2Fit’s software (AI) enables retailers to recommend clothing you'll love that flatter and fit. Instead of spending hours or days searching and trying on clothing, take a few minutes to create a profile and let your virtual stylist do all the work. Click2Fit has reverse engineered the thousands of visual and cognitive rules that humans subconsciously use to determine what looks good on them. Proprietary algorithms evaluate that information, as well as hundreds of data points for individual pieces of clothing, and dynamically select clothing that fits and flatters the customer, and suits their taste and lifestyle.
John Henry
New York City native but Florida-raised, John Henry is an energetic and incredibly hands-on entrepreneur passionate about building great ideas, great people, and great communities. He started his first company at 18, an on-demand laundry-tech startup. Henry grew the startup to a team of 13 within 2 years and then successfully sold the company. Now he's running Cofound Harlem, a social-impact accelerator on a mission to build companies in Harlem in 5 years.
William Smith
serves as the community liaison to New York State Assembly member Keith L.T Wright, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Housing. As the community liaison, William is focused on policy analysis for public housing, housing finance and social service- related issues. In his role he is responsible for strengthening and expanding assembly member Wright’s unique approach to grassroots policy and community engagement. |