Developer Camp met as a community in San Francisco over the weekend of February 24–26, and we all got another glimpse at the future.

Soon everyone got the chance to offer their skills or ask for help on an idea.

Siobhan Neilland delivered an uplifting speech on the topic of following your dreams at any cost.

Do not get me started on Day 2, it was amazing. More later—but guess what? Everyone who participated in the Hackathon Showcase on Day 3 won something.

Best Civic Hack

Quarter Master

Sahas Munamala

Here is an example of a person solving their own problem. Quartermaster provides an online system to organize, categorize, and easily check in/out shared gear. This is particularly useful in scouting, and gear management is required for advancement. Only an Eagle Scout would engineer and open source a solution on the Web.

Best Open Source

Character Namer

Elizabeth Coble, Amanda Barden

Once again solving a personal problem that creative writers all share, Character Namer is just that. It is an app that helps writers name characters with accurate information about name origins, meanings, and naming trends from different eras. With this award, we encourage the team to open source their work and continue.

Coolest

Pix Interactive

Melissa Perenson

This app uses NEC image recognition as a means to tag locations the way you would with a QR code today. From the creator:

Use your smartphone as a window to free your pictures from their static confines so they can become interactive experiences. Targeted at everyone from individuals who print their own photos and photobooks to content creators and marketers who want to bring images alive, Pix Interactive lets you use your smartphone camera to identify an image and provide a caption and a link to more, related info on the Web.

So clever.

Best Communication Tool

StruggleBuddy

Natalie Focha, Phuong Cooc, Kadeem Palacios, Mark Camara

In the spirit of teams that have come before with this idea, StruggleBuddy takes the concept of a support chatbot one step further. This is an interactive support app promoting positive mental health using multiple tools: chat, forums, search, and phone.

This solution is great for those who need a response right away, or might feel more comfortable chatting than talking with a human right away. The team was generous enough to open source their work as well. So great.

Best Web App

Jawad Banga

One man built a real time running app that marks your current location and route on two different google static maps—and logs total distance travelled with calories burnt. From the creator:

You can also see your friends/competitors anywhere around the world. I used firebase authentication and real time database to save user data ie location etc and serve realtime fitness data from your fiends along with your so you can see who is winning on the Calorie Bern. My objective was to learn and get better grips with React with this project.

Right on.

The NEC Computer Vision Prize

Vishal Sanganaboina

This app helps you to create a shopping list by scanning the products themselves, reducing miscommunication about which exact type of food or medicine is needed. From the creator:

The way the app works is, the user of the app scans the product of his choice, then NEC API scans the product and updates the firebase database, and the other person who registered with the app gets notified and the list gets updated. So, no more typing, no more typos just scan and Go Get Going.

Working peacefully solo all weekend, this winner gave his work to open source. Kudos.

Best Use of Firebase

Winnie Wen, Vince Gutierrez, Lyudmyla Ivanova, Art Alacar

This iOS app allows anyone to share their experience via video tagged to a specific destination. The results are sorted based on “vibe,” suited to the experience you are seeking. Thumbs up.

Best Design and Development

Vanessa Comins, Emily Comins, Charlotte Fletcher, Ajaypal Singh, Santi Gracia

SugarHunt allows you to socially discover ice cream in your local neighborhood in San Francisco. This team improved some open source and published their improvements for everyone to enjoy. Please, please ship this.

Most Educational

Juleus Chapman

The world of individualized education plans is complex and challenging to communicate to parents. This app explains special education information for older students and parents. Created by a first-time programmer using Swift, a full-time teacher in special education got this impressive demo completed by himself in a weekend! Never give up.

The Sharing Award

Jay Hu, Manny Martinez, Kei Sakaguchi, John Regner, Peer Dampmann

This is a mobile solution to create and share clips from your favorite YouTube videos. The team worked diligently all weekend to completely implement this using the YouTube API and made it all open source. Boom.

Best Family App

Jacobs Matthews

This one-man team built the beginnings of his Home Automation solution, presenting a video to sum it all up. Bravo.

Best Student App

Amit Narayan, Yash Narayan

Foundr is a game that teaches kids the basics of entrepreneurship in a fun way while learning about math and science. Each challenge is designed to inspire budding entrepreneurs to think about solving a big problem facing our society. Player selects a challenge they want to solve in the world. Then they selects their team. Each team member that you adds lets you grow faster and if you grow faster your company will be more valuable. But having more team members mean you also have to share your equity with more people when your company is sold. Once the player selects the team, they then are taken through a series of facts about the challenge and maths problems related to the fact. The player earns revenue for the company. At the end of the challenge, player learns how much their company was worth based on their performance on the questions. Regardless of whether the company is old or folded, the player learns about the impact they made on the world by going through the challenge!

Built by an older brother for his sister’s education, this regular winner stole the show again by building it all using Adobe Experience Design. Well done!

Best Game

Jyoti Bishnoi, Agata Krol, Navjot Singh Matharu, Anup Bishnoi

At first glance, this app looks like any other Scrabble competitor, but this word game requires you to look around for the letters you need. As real-world as a spelling game can get—using image recognition as a glimpse into the future of immersive gaming. Brilliant.

PubNub Fellows

Jose Lopez, Claire Comins

MeetMeThere makes organizing meetings for small or large groups of people effortless. Share your location, invite your group, MeetMeThere does the rest.

MeetMeThere contacts everyone in your chosen group, finds the most central location for the meeting, and shows each person their own best route to get there in real time. Simply awesome.

PubNub Fellows

Rauhmel Fox, Maria Claudia Bodino

For certain legal circumstances, there is a select type of person who can help and represent you to law enforcement. This app crowdsources emergency services, allowing the caller to simultaneously notify a pre-defined community of people who can help you. For the benefit of all, this app is open source. This could be an actual lifeline.

Most Potential

Using parts that include a raspberry pi, four-button controller, mouse, speaker, and other components, this working machine became their prize.

In memory of a dearly departed winner and volunteer Aeryk Blair, this award goes to our youngest participants.

Aged 9 and 6, the Sagolla boys got help from their grandmother and assembled a Piper minecraft computer.

• Michelle Sagolla
• Leo Sagolla
• Ansel Sagolla

Judging the participants, and deciding who gets what prize is actually a lot of very fast work! Collaboration, cooperation, trust, and gut decisions are required. This team has got what it takes to make the perfect array of winners.

This is just the beginning. These teams did all of this in less than 48 hours.

So can you.

Together, anything is possible.