Yesterday was a fantastic day for #mobdev. Our esteemed panel of five judges evaluated the six student projects and chose a winner. If you recall, the contest was a 10-day sprint to create a compelling product prototype that exploited the Echo Nest API. Teams had to pitch a business model, great design, and reasonable technical depth through a demo. Substance, style, and a convincing way to make money.

I am pleased to report that every team did a fantastic job. The entire panel was very, very impressed at the amount of stuff our students were able to get done in such a brief amount of time. The next post (tomorrow probably) will be about the individual projects and the winning team. I just wanted to give you a taste of the day.

Our Panel

Many thanks to our judging panel! From left to right, below: Shannon Bator, Debbie Chachra, (me), Reed Sturtevent, and Paul Lamere. I have no idea what that is written on the board behind me.

The student teams!

MusicTrail (Daniel Bathgate, Andy Pethan, Tim Ryan, Ann Wu)

DJMixr (Miguel Bajar, Rhan Kim, Hyeon Taek Oh, Poorva Singal)

Beat Blocker (Amy Dyer, Chujiao Ma, Jonathan Reed)

Pace Player (Ellen Chisa, Eric Hwang, Jeff Stanton)

Driving Beat (Ben Fisher, Rangel Spasov, Noah Tye)

Bandroid (Logan Dethrow, John Harley, Jonathan Inman, Keerthik Omanakuttan)