The largest hackathon in CMU-Q history took place on January 22 and 23, with 74 participants forming 20 teams.

Sponsored by Ooredoo, the CarnegieApps Hackathon is an annual programming competition for university students, where individuals and teams compete in a 24-hour race to build mobile applications, web applications or games. The event is organized by CarnegieApps, a student-led club at Carnegie Mellon Qatar.

The top prize of Best Overall App went to a CMU-Q freshman team, The Walking Coders: Rachel Marella, Sungho Park, Eishaank Gakhar and Shaden Shaar.

Best Rookie Team went to Hack4 from CMU-Q: Deeksha Singh, Dhrishika Megchiani, Sabrina Akhter and Shobiitaa Krishna.

Best Design was awarded to a Qatar University team called Team Whatever: Azharul Islam, Naheel Kamal and Ahammed Waseem Palliyali.

Best Technical Challenge went to Team Three and a Half Men from CMU-Q: Mohammed Fituri, Yasser El-Sayed, Musab Popatia and Ahmed Shah.

Munera Fahad Al Dosari, assistant director in the Program Management Office of Ooredoo Qatar, represented Ooredoo on the judges' panel, announced the awards, and delivered closing remarks.

The competition was judged by Khalifa Saleh Al Haroon, founder of I Love Qatar and chief executive officer of Haroon United Group, Ahmed Elmagarmid, executive director of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Indica Amarasinghe, head of the Digital Incubation Centre, Ministry of ictQatar, and Francisco Guzman, a QCRI computer scientist.

CarnegieApps Hackathon is part of Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s contribution to innovation in Qatar and the region.