This project was created for the international hackathon in Abu Dhabi in 2013 sponsored by New York University. There was around 100 students participating. The mentors were not allowed to code, they were only allowed to mentor the project, help with architecture, technologies, algorithms, deployment, and anything that would help the students learn.

The beauty of this project is that the students were the only developers. They had different skill set, some knew php, some knew very little JavaScript, some new python, and Java. So the mentors challenge was to pick couple of technologies that would make this work. None of the members knew NodeJS/BackboneJS/TwitterBootstrap but they were passionate to learn.

Developers:

• Antoine Grondin, Univerity of Ottawa, Front-end and Back-end integration, BackboneJS
• Anas Boubas, UAE University, Back-end RESTful services implmentation, NodeJS
• Amna AlDhaheri, UAE University, Datamodel Database Design and Queries, MySQL
• Kalthoom AlAwar, UAE University, UX Design prototype and implementation, Twitter Bootstrap

Mentor:

• Mohamed Mansour, Microsoft, Helped unblocking, and mentor architecture, technologies, etc