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Announcing the Winners of codeLinc 7!!!

Congratulations to the Winners of codeLinc 7.0!

Lincoln Financial is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s virtual hackathon to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of America:

First place: Courvoisier Hopkins of University of California, Irvine, Olufemi Adefila of Georgia Institute of Technology and Alyssa Tan of University of California, Irvine, for Cresh, an app designed to let Bigs and Littles connect through fitness.

Second place: Jesel Reyes of El Centro College, Eric Sanchez of University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Rahul Athreya or Arizona State University, for EduAR, an educational app designed to let Littles use augmented reality to learn with customized plans from their Bigs.

Third place: Arnav Aggarwal of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kinllen Peng of Cornell University, Pavan Pandurangi of William Fremd High School, Harmon Bhasin of University of Madison Wisconsin, Pranay Prabhakar of Union College, and Arnav Batta of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Project Protect and Equip, which is designed to use machine learning to pinpoint which learning resources Littles need across the country.

Technical Innovation Award: Stella Wang, Tuan Lam, and Tyrell Robbins, all of Temple University, for Hobby Bloc, which is designed to match Littles with physical activity boxes to do with their Bigs virtually.

View all of the submissions.

Congratulations to the winners—and to all the students whose creativity, innovation, and technical expertise made this virtual event a success! We will contact you via email shortly regarding your prize awards.

Want to learn more about Lincoln Financial Group? Check out the pages below.

·      Company overview 

·      Careers at Lincoln

·      Diversity and Inclusion at Lincoln

·      Our Corporate Social Responsibility practices

·      The latest on the Lincoln newsroom

·      Don’t take our word for it…check out our awards and recognition


Or reach out to us via the #recruiting channel on Slack.

 

Even though the competition is over, you don't have to stop coding. Update your portfolio to inform your followers about new projects and get feedback from fellow hackers.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.