ULHacks results! Incredible projects for empowering learning [Hackathon Review]
Tags: hackathon, review
Published: 2022-06-16 00:20:00

This weekend, almost 300 students and developers partipated in ULHacks, a 36-hours hackathon to create a project for empowering learning! In this article we’re going to review some of the best ones presented.

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## Environment
ULHacks was an online hackathon, but that doesn’t mean that the environment was left apart. Most of the hackathon communications were done through their Discord server, where you could find organizers and participants active all the time.
Workshops/Mini-events

From a Python meet-up to a Computer Science Kahoot!, workshops and mini-events at ULHacks were of great variety, and many of them included prizes. This created a wonderful opportunity for hackers to interact with each other while participating at the hackathon.

## Winners
Once the 36 hours of hacking finished, everyone had already turned in their projects, proud of what they had done, and we awaited for the great announcement of the winners. It was a though decision; everyone had done a great work, but a decision had to be made. Finally, the time of the closing ceremony arrived and the winners were announced. Do you want to know who they are?

### FollowThru
_Created by JJ Doleweed, John Kang, Zac Waite and Kevin Wang._

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Do you have trouble organizing yourself and want a smart way to solve it? No problem! FollowThru is a smart solution that will help you create SMART-based (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound) goals. Made with a unified design done in Figma, it runs natively on IOS and Android and on the web on mobile and desktop.

FollowThru provides multiple services, including project management, version control, todo lists, learning about goal creation, scheduling and more.

### CourseConnected
_Created by Aryan Ovalekar, Yash Sarkharkar, Aditya Shelke and Ved Soolgiri._

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If you like learning in different web platforms, but you have problems managing all of them, CourseConnected is your solution! CourseConnected is a user-driven website that allows you to group all the resources you need for learning.

In addition to grouping them, this website also lets you to create and share courses with different information as the subject and the difficulty level.

### Ingrid
_Created by Daniel Liu, Eric Huang, Nithin Muthukumar and Annie Sun._

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Having many accounts at many applications which are hard to manage and visualize is a thing of the past. Ingrid lets you visualize all your data and track your progress in an all-in-one dashboard.

Furthermore, Ingrid works with extensions and an extension shop. That means that new extesions may be added in the future! Additionally, this method makes it very easy to add and remove applications from your dashboard, which allows you to organize yourself effectively.

## Final thoughts
All in all, they are just part of all the amazing projects presented to ULHacks. I personally must say that it was a wonderful event with lots of workshops and mini-events that made it even better. The source of the projects presented here are openly available, so you may go to GitHub and take them a look. Moreover, it would be great to contribute to them and help these projects grow. For instance, so far Ingrid has only extensions for GitHub, GitLab and Duolingo when a lot of extensions can be implemented. Anyway, if you haven’t participated of a hackathon yet, I completely recommend you to do it. It is a very enriching experience for any software developer who respects himself. You won’t regret it.

If you want to further see any of these projects or want to see the other projects presented, visit the ULHacks page on Devpost:
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_<small>This post was originally published on Medium by Gary Strivin' ([link](https://medium.com/@GaryStriving/incredible-projects-for-empowering-learning-812bc614e83d)).</small>_